The team is already thinking of applications for metamaterials as read-heads for future generations of hard-disk drives or optical modulators for communications.

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It takes three beams and three modulators to print in full color.

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Rattner explained that the new architecture is based on more than a decade's worth of research to invent a family of silicon-based photonic devices, including lasers, modulators and detectors using low-cost silicon to fully integrate photonic devices of unprecedented speed and energy efficiency.

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