{"id":139178,"date":"2022-05-11T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/laser-bursts-drive-fastest-ever-logic-gates"},"modified":"2022-05-11T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:23:12","slug":"laser-bursts-drive-fastest-ever-logic-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/laser-bursts-drive-fastest-ever-logic-gates","title":{"rendered":"Laser bursts drive fastest-ever logic gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-bursts-drive-fastest-ever-logic-gates.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A long-standing quest for science and technology has been to develop electronics and information processing that operate near the fastest timescales allowed by the laws of nature.<\/p>\n<p>A promising way to achieve this goal involves using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser light<\/a> to guide the motion of electrons in matter, and then using this control to develop electronic circuit elements\u2014a concept known as lightwave electronics.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, lasers currently allow us to generate bursts of electricity on femtosecond timescales\u2014that is, in a millionth of a billionth of a second. Yet our ability to process information in these ultrafast timescales has remained elusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-standing quest for science and technology has been to develop electronics and information processing that operate near the fastest timescales allowed by the laws of nature. A promising way to achieve this goal involves using laser light to guide the motion of electrons in matter, and then using this control to develop electronic circuit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}