Optical switching at record speeds opens door for ultrafast, light-based electronics and computers

Science Daily  March 22, 2023 Recently, optical switches have been demonstrated using terahertz and ultrafast laser pulses to control the electrical signal and enhance the switching speed to the picosecond and a few hundred femtoseconds time scale. An international team of researchers (USA- University of Arizona, Ohio State University, Germany) used the reflectivity modulation of the fused silica dielectric system in a strong light field to demonstrate the optical switching (ON/OFF) with attosecond time resolution. They presented the capability of controlling the optical switching signal with complex synthesized fields of ultrashort laser pulses for data binary encoding. AccrdingAccording to the […]