{"id":160799,"date":"2023-03-22T16:28:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T21:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/record-breaking-optical-switch-study-paves-way-for-ultrafast-electronics"},"modified":"2023-03-22T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T21:28:24","slug":"record-breaking-optical-switch-study-paves-way-for-ultrafast-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/record-breaking-optical-switch-study-paves-way-for-ultrafast-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking optical switch study paves way for ultrafast electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h87LNnXNhSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new advancement would also allow the encoding of data on ultrafast laser pulses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A team of international physicists, led by the University of Arizona, was able to switch a light signal optically at attosecond rates in order to achieve hitherto unreachable data transfer speeds: one quintillionth of a second is an attosecond.<\/p>\n<p>Optical transistors will regulate electric signals.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>University of Arizona\/Youtube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSemiconductor-based transistors are in all of the electronics that we use today,\u201d said Mohammed Hassan, assistant professor of physics and optical sciences. \u201cThey\u2019re part of every industry \u2013 from kids\u2019 toys to rockets \u2013 and are the main building blocks of electronics.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/record-breaking-optical-switch-study-paves-way-for-ultrafast-electronics\">Continue reading \u201cRecord-breaking optical switch study paves way for ultrafast electronics\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis new advancement would also allow the encoding of data on ultrafast laser pulses.\u201d A team of international physicists, led by the University of Arizona, was able to switch a light signal optically at attosecond rates in order to achieve hitherto unreachable data transfer speeds: one quintillionth of a second is an attosecond. Optical transistors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160799","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}