Optical switch based on nanofibres
Computers translate, or better digitize letters, numbers, images and sounds into a set of 8 zeroes and ones, i.e. into bytes. The word “test”, for instance, is translated into the sequence 01110000 01110010…
An optical switch constituted by a single atom
The researchers of the Wien Universität Technische, in Austria, have actually transformed an optical fibre cable into a “laboratory” for quantum experimentations, with the target of creating, to manipulate light, the smallest possible…
