{"id":231252,"date":"2026-02-13T01:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/nanolaser-on-a-chip-could-cut-computer-energy-use-in-half"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:21:07","slug":"nanolaser-on-a-chip-could-cut-computer-energy-use-in-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/nanolaser-on-a-chip-could-cut-computer-energy-use-in-half","title":{"rendered":"Nanolaser on a chip could cut computer energy use in half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanolaser-on-a-chip-could-cut-computer-energy-use-in-half.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at DTU have developed a nanolaser that could be the key to much faster and much more energy-efficient computers, phones, and data centers. The technology offers the prospect of thousands of the new lasers being placed on a single microchip, thus opening a digital future where data is no longer transmitted using electrical signals, but using light particles, photons. The invention has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adx3865\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nanolaser opens up the possibility of creating a new generation of components that combine <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-11-photonics-team-high-performance-ultrafast-lasers.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">high performance<\/a> with minimal size. This could be in information technology, for example, where ultra-small and energy-efficient lasers can reduce energy consumption in computers, or in the development of sensors for the health care sector, where the nanolaser\u2019s extreme light concentration can deliver high-resolution images and ultrasensitive biosensors,\u201d says DTU professor Jesper M\u00f8rk, who co-authored the paper together with, among others, Drs. Meng Xiong and Yi Yu from DTU Electro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at DTU have developed a nanolaser that could be the key to much faster and much more energy-efficient computers, phones, and data centers. The technology offers the prospect of thousands of the new lasers being placed on a single microchip, thus opening a digital future where data is no longer transmitted using electrical signals, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1495,1512,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-health","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231252","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}