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Why can’t we reduce the wavelength?
by p1esk 3y ago
Why can’t we reduce the wavelength?
- naasking 3y agoEven UV wavelengths aren't terribly small, and the shorter the wavelength, the more energy it has and the more likely it is to destroy whatever material your optical CPU is made of.
- p1esk 3y agoSounds like an engineering problem, not a fundamental one.
- naasking 3y agoNot sure what gives you that idea. It seems unlikely that there are materials that can withstand billions of x-ray pulses per second and continue to function without being altered. They might exist, but the higher the energy to get to low wavelengths for fast and information dense computing, the increasingly implausible it gets that a suitable material is physically possible.
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agoshorter wavelength light really doesn't like existing. It takes more energy to produce, there are way fewer possible materials to make mirrors out of etc. Just look at how much trouble the industry had doing EUV lithography.