The silica toroid serves both, as an excellent optical resonator for photons, and it supports mechanical vibrations (phonons). The mutual coupling of photons and phonons can be harnessed to ...

Often, proposals for optical switching emphasize high speed as their main advantage, and they may indeed operate faster than silicon transistors 1,14.Note, however, that current CMOS transistors ...

Despite the transistor’s superior performance ... Sony would go on to innovate in a number of areas, including optical data storage.

Transistor circuits deliver all of these functionalities in electronic computing, but for large scalable logic circuits, no optical element or circuit, either active or passive, can do this and at ...