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'Microphotonics' Devices Created

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AALBORG, Denmark, March 27, 2006 -- A family of devices for guiding and processing light in chip-based information technology was developed at Aalborg University in Denmark. Sergey Bozhevolnyi, a professor with the university's Institue of Physics and Nanotechnology, and his research team said their work will help overcome a main obstacle to making photonic technology comparable to microelectronics: the difficulty of manipulating light at very small scales, or microphotonics. They said the key problem for microphotonics is that light can only be transmitted through channels and holes wider...Read full article

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    Published: March 2006
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    microphotonics
    The technology of manipulating light on a micro scale. In optical communications, this is usually accomplished using two or more materials with significantly different indicies of refraction. In most instances microphotonics relies on Fresnel reflection to guide the light.
    Aalborg UniversityCommunicationsfiber opticsInstitue of Physics and NanotechnologymicroelectronicsmicrophotonicsNews & FeaturesSergey Bozhevolnyi

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