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nanotechnology FTW ;)]]>Mar 17th 2008 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/
they really gotta stop making faster processors

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Years from now this technology might be in everything we use, or it might not and some other project that they are working on will. Only working on projects that can be brought to market in the short term is, well, short sighted. Stretching out there with ambitious projects is what really moves technology forward. ]]>Mar 17th 2008 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/Mar 17th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/Mar 17th 2008 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.photonics.com/content/news/2008/January/3/90091.aspx]]>Mar 17th 2008 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/
now, on topic, I think this will see it's light on the cell processor... kinda obvious, right?]]>Mar 17th 2008 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/Mar 17th 2008 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/Mar 17th 2008 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/Mar 17th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/
Also a all optical computer isn't always a quantum computer, for a quantum computer you would need to be transporting photons at a time and be able to retain the qubits (quantum bits) superposition state at all times within the Qu computer, this would at least need 3-D PhCs for the mere transportation of them. I suppose you could use a slow light high Q cavity for storage, though I couldn't guarantee the retention of coherence while it's being stored. A quantum computer using light in the next 50 years? I doubt it.]]>Mar 18th 2008 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/Mar 17th 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/Mar 17th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/17/ibms-light-pulse-love-affair-continues-with-tiniest-nanophotoni/Mar 17th 2008 10:16PM