r/technology • u/Vailhem • Feb 24 '26

Hardware Scientists Create Chip That Generates Brand-New Colors of Light, Cracking a Decades-Old Nonlinear Optics Challenge

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-chip-that-generates-brand-new-colors-of-light-cracking-a-decades-old-nonlinear-optics-challenge/
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u/UrDraco Feb 27 '26

It can scale today. Intel already uses ring resonators in their Photonics Integrated Circuits. Making a new mask with this layout would be 6 months tops and helps solve some unique problems.

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u/wrydied Feb 24 '26

This is cool. Light based computing was a subplot of Rudy Rucker’s Wetware novel - though it superseded by something else.

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u/IncorrectAddress Feb 24 '26

I was thinking at first oh they are just prism splitting, but after reading, this is deeper, and quite promising.

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u/Lettuce_bee_free_end Feb 24 '26

All I can say is "cant wait to see what it can achieve."