Photonic crystals are also what make these weevils look like they were dipped in glitter.

光子晶体也是使这些象鼻虫看起来像是浸在闪光粉中的原因。

So researchers built a photonic chip—a computer chip that uses photons instead of electrons.

所以，研究人员制造了一个光子芯片——这种计算机芯片用光子代替了电子。

Photonic computing, which uses analog light signals, is one of the most promising approaches to addressing the issue.

使用模拟光信号的光子计算是解决这个问题最有前途的方法之一。

But a related technology, integrated photonics, has come to the rescue.

但一种相——集成光子学，已经来拯救了。

Photonic chips can help break open wireless bandwidth limitations, too.

光子芯片也能助力突破无线带宽的限制。

Photonics essentially allow the internet to exist in the way it does today.

光子学本上允许互联网以今天的方式存在。

And finally, I want to cover photonics or optical engineering which deals with light.

最后，我想探讨的是光子学或光学工程，它们涉及光的处。

Based on optics, photonics for communication, superconducting electronics for computation, how does this all work?

光学、光子学用通信、超导电子学用计算，这一切是如何工作的？

My background is in photonics, the use of light for technology.

我的背景是光子学，即利用光进行应用。

Known as photonic propulsion, it would use a giant set of lasers to push ships along.

被称为光子推进，它将使用一套巨大的激光来推动飞船前进。

You're watching me over a high-speed internet, which is dominated by the photonics of sending data over fiber optics.

你在高速互联网上看着我，互联网主要是通过光纤发送数据的光子学。

So, coming from a background in photonics, it was very natural to say, okay, we're going to use light for communication.

因此，考虑到我光子学方面的背景，自然而然地就想到， 好吧，我们用光来进行通信。

In an interview with Live Science, photonics engineer Peter Delphiette compared the quality of this light with the white light we're used to.

在接受Live Science采访时，光子工程师彼得·德尔菲特将这种光的量与我们习惯的白光进行了比较。

The same technique can be used to determine the levels of sugar present in grape juice, says Lei Su, a photonics researcher at QMUL.

伦敦玛丽女王大学光子学研究员 Lei Su 表示，同样的也可以用来测定葡萄汁中的糖分含量。

" This refreshing and pragmatic approach to artificial-intelligence hardware that is highly energy efficient makes the most out of both electronic and photonic computing technologies, " it said.

“这种令人耳目一新的、务实的人工智能硬件方法，高效节能，充分利用了电子和光子计算，”它说。

With integrated photonics, modulators and detectors are being shrunk to less than a tenth of a millimeter, and packed into tiny chips that'll one day fit inside a car's lights.

有了集成光子学，调制器和探测器被缩小到不到十分之一毫米，并被装进微型芯片，有朝一日可以装进汽车的灯里。

The ordered structures that cause iridescence in opals are called photonic crystals, a kind of crystal where the bending and reflecting of light is happening in three dimensions in a periodic or repeated pattern.

在蛋白石中产生彩虹色的有序结构被称为光子晶体，一种以周期性或重复模式在三维空间内弯曲和反射光的晶体。

That's a tall order, but there's a solution that partners two things: a special kind of laser-based probe called LIDAR, and a miniature version of the communications technology that keeps the internet humming, called integrated photonics.

这是一项艰巨的任务，但有一个解决方案可以让两件事结合起来： 一种特殊的激光的探测器，叫做激光雷达（LIDAR），以及一种保持互联网运转的微型通信，叫做集成光子学。

It is poured cash into everything from photonics which uses light not electricity to shuffle data between chips to obtain a new kind of memory designed to keep chips fed with is to crunch.

它将资金投入从使用光而不是电来在芯片之间传输数据的光子学，到设计一种新的内存以确保芯片持续获得数据进行处的各种领域。