A Tiny Silicon Disc Is the World's Fastest Nanoscale Optical Switch

A Tiny Silicon Disc Is the World's Fastest Nanoscale Optical Switch:

With the future of computing looking increasingly likely to become light-based , it pays to work out how to make the switching of light as efficient as possible. Enter tiny silicon discs, which have now been shown to be the fastest ever optical switches at the nanoscale.

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