I'm having trouble finding information on why a Kerr or Pockels cell would be preferred over the other for various applications. Is one faster reacting than the other? Things like that. Any information would be very helpful and greatly appreciated. Also I'm having troubles finding the history and progressions for both cells.
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> Researchers at Oregon State University have designed and fabricated the world's smallest electro-optic modulator, which could mean major reductions in energy used by data centers and supercomputers.
> An electro-optic modulator plays the key role in fiber optic networks.
> Just as a transistor is a switch for electronic signals, an electro-optic modulator is a switch for optical signals.
> Optical communication uses light, so the modulator turns on and off the light that sends a stream of binary signals over optical fibers.
> The new modulator is 10 times smaller and can potentially be 100 times more energy efficient than the best previous devices.
> The design, combining innovations in materials and devices, enhanced the interaction between electronics and photonics, which enabled the researchers to create a smaller electro-optic modulator.
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Hi Reddit,
I’m Jessie Rosenberg, a research scientist at IBM Watson Research Center. I started my physics career as a young child dreaming of black holes and understanding how the world worked, a dream that eventually drove me to skip high school altogether and start college at the age of 13. In graduate school I was drawn to the field of photonics, the study of light for technological applications, and the many possibilities it offered for improving technology used in everyday life.
When I finished my PhD in Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology at the age of 23, I immediately started working at IBM on their silicon photonics platform, developing technology to intimately integrate optical and electrical devices onto the same silicon chip. By leveraging the same fabrication techniques that are used today for highly advanced computer systems, silicon nanophotonics brings the advantages of high-bandwidth optical communication down to the chip scale and into mass production, aiming to do the same thing for optics that the integrated circuit did for electronics.
I was honored to be selected as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of innovators in science in 2011, have been an Associate Editor for The Optical Society journal Optics Express since 2014, and served as a Program Chair for the Science and Innovations track of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2016. I’m looking forward to taking your questions!
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Has the military or does anyone know of any tests done on optics like a holographic sight system (EOTech or ACOG) that has passed or failed a true high powered EMP?
I was just wondering if anyone knows how they may survive after an EMP.
