Freezing Light

[froglips]

This stuff is fascinating to me. Just thought I would share this info with you in case you did not know about it.

Freezing lazer light
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Freezing light at will for computing
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309105026.htm

Making an optical computer from frozen light
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050424201002.htm

 

[L-A]

That's amazing. I never heard of this before.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

Wow

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

They've been working on quantum computing for a while. Quantum computers won't ever replace the "standard" computers, they generally have more specialised uses.

Pretty interesting read on "freezing light", best I had read about was getting light down to 16-17 m/s in a photonic crystal lattice.

 

[DudeistMonk]

One step closer to Star Trek...Woot!

 

[Valerus]

How do you reply to this?






Oh yes.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

Kind of brings crystals like they use in star trek into a more feasible limelight.