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IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl	The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing
Technology Research News February 9, 2005	All-silicon chip laser demoed Researchers from Intel have moved a step forward in the push to meld lasers and silicon chips, which could eventually be used in portable biological and chemical sensors, to amplify communications signals, and to convert light to different wavelengths.
CIO October 15, 2003 Tom Krazit	Xerox Minds Its MEMS If you think your data center is too crowded, pay attention to researchers at Xerox, who hope to make optical switches much smaller than today's devices. The secret lies in a technology called optical MEMS, or micro-electrical-mechanical systems.
InternetNews June 22, 2004 Michael Singer	Big Blue Eyes Optical Chip Connectors A new high-speed photodetector lets chips talk to each other using high-speed light pulses.
Technology Research News April 6, 2005	System Forms Light Necklace Researchers who are working with soliton clusters have come a step closer to all-optical computing. They have showed that it is possible to contain a lightwave as a soliton necklace -- a standing wave of light arranged as a ring of bright spots.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley	Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Silicon Chip Laser Goes Continuous Useful lasers made from silicon would make it possible to move data between and within computer chips using light rather than electricity. This would make for faster chips that could be more tightly integrated with optical communications equipment.
The Motley Fool October 11, 2005 Dan Bloom	Intel's Optical Breakthrough The chipmaker may open new tech frontiers by teaching silicon and light to cooperate.
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 Eric Smalley	Photonic chips go 3D Computer chips made from photonic crystal promise better communications equipment and ultrafast, all-optical computers
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 Eric Smalley	Light-storing chip charted Storing light, even briefly, was considered impossible until recently. Since scientists have proved it could be done, they've been finding different ways of accomplishing the feat. A proposal for slowing and stopping light in photonic crystal promises to bring these experiments to the chip level.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Pulse trap makes optical switch Scientists who work with light pulses so short that one trillion of them pass by in a second are laying the groundwork for higher bandwidth communications and blazingly-fast, all-optical computer chips.
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Scientific American August 2005 Steven Ashley	Making Light of Silicon Scientists at UCLA and Intel have obtained coherent photons of light from silicon. This low cost alternative to "exotic" semiconductor materials currently used as lasers will pave the way for many technological advances.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 Eric Smalley	Movie Captures Trapped Light Slow light, once better understood, could be used to improve devices like sensors and optical communications equipment. Researchers have moved the field forward with a way to directly observe the phenomenon.
Technology Research News March 12, 2003	Warping yields better light chip Light can transmit information and it can sense chemicals and microbes. The critical device for controlling light for these uses is the resonator, which briefly stores light of a specific frequency, or color. A newly developed resonator is nearly 10,000 times more efficient than previous designs.
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Technology Research News April 23, 2003 Eric Smalley	Silver bits channel nano light Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California have found a way to guide near-field light over short distances through channels that are several times narrower than the wavelengths of light.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa	Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Alexander Hellemans	Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Separate groups in the U.S. and Europe say that they have built and successfully tested more compact, rugged, and efficient means of delaying light pulses. Their work may clear the way for applications in optical switching and quantum communications.
InternetNews September 18, 2006 David Needle	Intel Sees The Laser Light Intel announced its latest research designed to create a super-fast hybrid silicon processor capable of moving data at terabits-per-second speed.
Chemistry World August 3, 2012 Andrew Extance	Gel polymer seizes shadow With just a slight dip in a tungsten filament bulb's intensity, Canadian researchers have created channels that light can't enter.
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 Clark Nguyen	Radios With Micromachined Resonators Future wireless designs will replace electronics with precision mechanical components.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Purdue researchers develop material for better optics, communications "Negative index of refraction" in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications could lead to better communications and imaging technologies.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 Janesch & Ivons	Choosing the Right Switch System Challenges Test Engineers Despite a variety of electronic systems, for all of them automation can improve them. An essential part of automated testing is a switching system, which routes signals between measurement instruments and the device under test (DUT).
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IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Saswato R. Das	Scheme for a Single-Photon Transistor Researchers have taken a big step toward building a really fast computer that uses light rather than electricity to perform calculations.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 Stevens & Shmulovich	Planar lightwave circuits will be a key technology for next-generation military systems Optoelectronics, or photonics, is now becoming crucial to communications systems on a variety of military platforms and sensor applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 Schultz & McCue	Design Considerations for Employing Electronic Slip Rings in Mission-Critical Military Systems Because the microwave or laser transmitters used in weapons systems are often moving faster than 360 degrees, slip ring technology is among the few solutions designers can find to eliminate cabling that would otherwise be twisted and tangled.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 Steffen Koehler	Advances in hybrid optical packaging enable high-bandwidth photonic RF transmission The challenge in exploiting optical fiber for RF transmission lies in getting the RF signals on and off the fiber without degrading the signals. Advances in optical packaging technology are making improvements to military equipment possible.
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Neil Savage	Metamaterials Breakthrough Brings Invisibility Closer Negative refraction of visible light is a step toward invisibility.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 John Keller	DARPA seeks proposals on photonic delays as a building block for optical computing Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are trying to find compact, robust ways to control the flow of photons in future applications of optical computing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Optical Interconnect Withstands Harsh Environments The PRO BEAM connector series from Tyco Electronics is a fiber-optic interconnect designed specifically for fast data connections where resistance to severe environmental conditions is paramount.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2004 Seth Jayson	Intel Sees the Light Company researchers reach a breakthrough in optical computing.
Technology Research News December 29, 2004	Molecular Motor Goes Both Ways Researchers have constructed a molecular motor that can spin in either direction, much like the biological molecular motors involved in many of life's processes. The motor could eventually be used in nanotechnology applications.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003	Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography.
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