Date: 11/04/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: no keywords

IBM claims a major breakthrough in the quest developing photon based computers instead of todays electron based silicon chips. In its Silicon Wave Guide chip it claims to have managed to slow down light to 1/300 of its normal speed of 186, 000 miles per second. The light can be further slowed by applying [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ibm-breakthrough-in-photonic-chip-slows-light-300-times/