Ping!...............
The Clintons already preparing the sale of the technology to China to finance her next campaign.
This achievement, announced at the 2007 OFC/NFOEC conference, is a critical first step toward the ultimate goal of seamless integration of photonics and electronics on the CMOS platform.
CMOS= Classified Maritime Operational Support platform, or to the unititiated, a photon torpedo! ;^)
They are probably two years away from delivering the “brick” cell phone equivalent to the commercial market. That’s OK. The first real gains will be the lower power consumption. The transistor initially resolved the heat and speed hurdles of the vacuum tube. The Power consumption were resolved and then the focus was on silicon component reduction (Integrated circuit). Now with the intense concentration of the IC we are presented with reduced power consumption (heat) in the form of Optical processing. The cycle begins anew.
For those of us who don’t have EE degrees what is the potential practical non-defence applications for this technology ?