Using photons in computers instead of electrons could make light-speed computing possible, but at what cost?

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Scientists Create Diodes Made Of Light
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“Photonics researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have achieved the extra-ordinary by creating a diode consisting of light that can be used, for the first time, in miniaturised photonic circuits.”

10 GHz Optical Transistor Built Out Of Silicon
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“In a significant step forward for all-optical computing, physicists build a silicon transistor that works with pure light.”

The Real Reasons Nothing Can Ever Go Faster Than Light
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“It was September 2011 and physicist Antonio Ereditato had just shocked the world. Particles – in this case, neutrinos – had travelled faster than light. According to Einstein's theories of relativity, this should not have been possible.”

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