Recent research suggests that plasmonics may offer a route to the development of modulators with terahertz bandwidths, many orders of magnitude faster than today's devices.
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Cao, L., Brongersma, M. Ultrafast developments. Nature Photon 3, 12–13 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.259
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