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SEA MOUSE PHOTONIC CRYSTALS. "This optical effect is unique in nature: it is the first photonic crystal found in a living system, and much more regularly constructed than the previous example of a photonic crystal from nature (the opal)." https://lnkd.in/eakUxgP View in LinkedIn

LOW-TECH UNDERSEA FIBER CABLES. "A massive network of fiber optic cables lies deep under the seas across the Earth...Submarine data cables date back to 1850, when the first international telegraph cable (with a capacity of 10 words per minute) spanned the channel between England and France. As early as 1901, telegraph cables crisscrossed the oceans and connected all the continents except for Antarctica." https://lnkd.in/eGxMup5 View in LinkedIn

DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY. "The MIT Communications Technology Roadmap recently published an evaluation of the vast array of new photonic technologies that have disrupted the telecommunications industry. This direction will trigger a major shift in the leadership of the component industry from information transmission (telecom) to information processing (computing, imaging)." https://lnkd.in/eAzxwaq View in LinkedIn

NEXT BIG THING. "The optical components industry stands at the threshold of a major expansion that will restructure its business processes and sustain its profitability for the next three decades. This growth will establish a cost effective platform for the partitioning of electronic and photonic functionality to extend the processing power of integrated circuits." https://lnkd.in/eAzxwaq View in LinkedIn

EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. "It is hard to comprehend the potential impact of such an explosive growth in complexity and capacity, because this rate of development is hardly seen in any other technology. Notable exceptions include the aforementioned electronic chips and, of course, the internet." https://lnkd.in/eSKtEqB View in LinkedIn

In 1985, there were under 10 components in optical chips; by 2015 we are approaching 10,000, evidence of the growing sophistication of optical chips. https://lnkd.in/eSKtEqB View in LinkedIn

PHOTONICS GOAL. "Electronics technology increasingly requires integration with photonics to maintain the performance roadmap known as Moore’s Law. Parallelism is already delivering an aggregate system performance of 1000x every ten years that outpaces the 2x every eighteen months “Moore’s Law” rate." https://lnkd.in/eAzxwaq View in LinkedIn

ELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS. "The photonic equivalents of these devices have been equally challenging to develop and are widely used to manipulate and control the signals in optical fibres. But it’s fair to say that they have yet to reach their full potential." https://lnkd.in/etC-jj8 View in LinkedIn

PHOTONS TRUMP ELECTRONS. "Electronic integrated circuits are arguably the most significant technology of the 20th century. In enabling, among other things, the computer industry, they have changed the way we work and play to an unprecedented extent." https://lnkd.in/etC-jj8 View in LinkedIn

ANTIPHOTON FAMILY. "Particles that are their own antiparticles must be electrically neutral, because an antiparticle has the opposite electrical charge as its partner particle." https://lnkd.in/eKC-Bei View in LinkedIn