The transistor laser.

The transistor laser.

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A research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a new, more powerful kind of device, called the transistor laser. The transistor puts out both electrical signals and a laser beam, which can be directly modulated to send optical signals at the rate of 10 billion bits p...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 43, 2 (2006).
Main Author: Holonyak, N., Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
University of Illinois.
Blue-sky nanotechnologies.
Electrical signals.
Fabrication infrastructure.
Graphics processors.
Laser beam.
Memory chips.
Microprocessors.
Optical interconnects.
Transistor lasers.