Debabrata Goswami is at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, where he explores the applications of ultrafast shaped pulses to coherent control, high-speed communication and computing. He is also associated as a Visiting Faculty at IIT, Kanpur, where he will be teaching a new course on Quantum Computing. He had earlier worked on developing the first acousto-optic modulated ultrafast pulse shaper as a part of his doctoral work at Princeton.

Researchers are using new conducting polymers to make transistor-like switches that a smaller and thousand times faster than the silicon transistors. Electricity-conducting organic molecules that are much thinner than semiconductor wires, are being teased into self-assembling. These advances promise super-tiny all-optical chips. In fact, progress in optical storage devices can now shrink an entire Library’s book collection down to sugar-cube size. Optical computers could be leaving silicon number crunchers choking in the dust by decade’s end.

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Address for Correspondence

Debabrata Goswami
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Homi Bhabha Road
Colaba, Mumbai 400005
Email: debu@tifr.res.in
http://www.tifr.res.in/~debu