I am curious by what is meant by a single photon being nonlinear. I could not find this on arxiv.
LC On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 5:51:27 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > To those who claim that Moore's law is approaching its end I would point > them to Wednesday's issue of the journal "Nature". IBM researchers report > they have developed an optical replacement for the transistor that operates > at room temperature, requires no cooling because it approaches the quantum > theoretical limit on energy efficiency, and is about 1000 times faster > than any existing transistor. More work will be required before an entire > microprocessor can be made using these devices but I find this development to > be enormously encouraging. > > The reason it's so energy efficient is that it only takes one photon from > a very weak laser to switch a far more powerful laser on and off. And > besides acting as a switch it can also act as an amplifier by boosting the > intensity of a laser beam by a factor of 23,000. > > Single-photon nonlinearity at room temperature > <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03866-9> > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > 42h > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/986025cf-74a4-4593-830f-3939e63e3873n%40googlegroups.com.
