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Nature Photonics 3, 193 - 194 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.37

Silicon photonics: Slot machine

Tom Baehr-Jones1 & Michael Hochberg1

  1. Tom Baehr-Jones and Michael Hochberg are at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 2500, USA.
    e-mail: hochberg@washington.edu; e-mail: baehrjt@washington.edu


Ultrafast all-optical computation with silicon photonic devices is still a dream. New research, which combines organic nonlinear polymers with silicon waveguides, is now bringing that dream closer to reality.

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