New Anti-Laser Technology Could Be Road Map To Better Computer Tech

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New Anti-Laser technology that has been developed by Yale researchers could hold the key to the newest computer processor advances. These Anti-Laser devices actually cancel out laser beams of light and may eventually help lead to optical computers. These optical computers have long been foretold as the natural successor to today’s computers that use protons to process information.

The Yale researchers have created a Coherent Perfect Absorber (CPA) which is a silicon wafer that traps and dissolves the laser light and dissipates it as heat. This sort of wafer, also known as an optical switch could be used in computers and because of the way they operate they could potentially be used to create much smaller processors than the electron processors of today. Currently the CPA absorbs as much as 99.4 percent of all light it receives but the researchers say they can get that number up to 99.999 percent. They also say they can eventually get the CPA down in size from one centimeter wide to six microns.