Silicon Lasers

[filkertom]

It ain't room-temperature superconductivity, but it's pretty spiff. Intel has figured out how to make continuous-beam lasers using silicon, which has lots of possibilities for electronics.

Comments

Neato

[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

Amazing stuff. And some of the most amazing little bits are buried in the story, like "...the same component used by Intel to sweep away electrons can be used to encode light with data by pumping them in."

As someone who is still in awe of his first C-64 (a whole 64K of memory, right on your very own desktop!), this sort of thing always impresses the hell out of me. "What hath God wrought?" undeed.

Man, I can't wait for the consumer-level applications of this jazz.

Re: Neato

[kengr]

There's someone selling a C-64 on a chip for folks whop want to keep using their old games and software. Don't recall where I saw the article though.

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

Will this make it easier to put freakin' lasers on freakin' sharks heads?

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Dude, if the shark is freakin', YOU go put the laser on its head!