Researchers develop ultrafast oscilloscope on a chip
Thursday, November 6, 2008 - 17:35
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- As photonics -- using beams of light in place of electricity for communications and computing -- becomes more common, engineers need new tools for troubleshooting. Now researchers at Cornell have created a way to plot the waveform of an ultrashort-lived optical signal with a resolution of less than a trillionth of a second.