Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King’s College London cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers for ICs. The approach enables a coherent light source design on the scale  smaller than the wavelength of light emitted by the laser. This enables ultrafast optical data transfer in microprocessors. ...

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