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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Baehr-Jones, T., Hochberg, M. Slot machine. Nature Photon 3, 193–194 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.37
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