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The question is: how are the laser an photodiodes driven? Also water? I bet no. Just transistors... so, why not use the transistors switching the laser directly
by f1shy 4y ago
The question is: how are the laser an photodiodes driven? Also water? I bet no. Just transistors... so, why not use the transistors switching the laser directly, without the whole laser/water/photodiode path?
I do not think this is going anywhere.
- dgoldstein0 4y agoI agree it's still time to be skeptical, but it is interesting. Now if they can make a terrahertz adder out of this... then I'll consider getting excited
- ajsnigrutin 4y ago> I do not think this is going anywhere. It is... someone published a paper on this, and will get to keep his/her tenure in this horrible publish-or-perish world of academia.
- samus 4y agoFoundational research into principles that leads nowhere is not the problem. The pool of cool ideas like this is unknowably large, and it would be sad to not see papers like this from time time. [Edit: as long as it is a high-quality study of course.] The true problem of the publish-or-perish world is the moral hazard that it causes. In booming fields, it is very seductive to abuse statistics or to outright fake data. These are not always caught by peer review!
- c22 4y agoIs there a reason why you couldn't potentially use this same effect to switch the lasers?