{"id":3786,"date":"2012-04-16T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2012-04-16T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T21:22:07","slug":"all-optical-networks-the-last-piece-of-the-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"All-Optical Networks: The Last Piece of the Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The functionality of an optical diode is simple to understand, as explained by MIT\u2019s Caroline Ross, whose lab recently published a paper on the diode: \u201cIt lets light go one-way, but blocks it from going the other way.\u201d In that sense, it\u2019s no different from electrical diodes that have existed for decades. (While the electronics term is \u201cdiode,\u201d the preferred term in photonics is \u201coptical isolator.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>But controlling photons presents challenges far more complex than controlling electrons. \u201cYou need to have a material where light propagating in one direction behaves differently from light propagating in the opposite direction,\u201d says Ross. In order to achieve that, you need a transparent material that when magnetized creates an asymmetrical medium, which allows you to control the light\u2019s direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/h30565.www3.hp.com\/t5\/Feature-Articles\/All-Optical-Networks-The-Last-Piece-of-the-Puzzle\/ba-p\/2736\">All-Optical Networks: The Last Piece of the Puzzle &#8211; Input Output<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The functionality of an optical diode is simple to understand, as explained by MIT\u2019s Caroline Ross, whose lab recently published a paper on the diode: \u201cIt lets light go one-way, but blocks it from going the other way.\u201d In that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3786\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[100,196],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-interesting-research","tag-optical-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}