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

子晶体也是使这些象鼻虫看起来像是浸在闪粉中的原因。

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

所以，研究人员一个子芯片——这种计算机芯片用子代替电子。

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.

有集成子学，调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。

" 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法，高效节能，充分利用电子和子计算技术，”它说。

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的晶体。

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

使用模拟信号的子计算是这个问题最有前途的法之一。

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，但有一个案可以让两件事结合起来： 一种特殊的基于激的探测器，叫做激雷达（LIDAR），以及一种保持互联网运转的微型通信技术，叫做集成子学。

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

子学本质上允许互联网以今天的式存在。

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

最后，我想探讨的是子学或学工程，它们涉及的处理。

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

我的背景是子学，即利用进行技术应用。

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而不是电来在芯片之间传输数据的子学，到设计一种新的内存以确保芯片持续获得数据进行处理的各种领域。

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

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

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，子工程师彼得·德尔菲特将这种的质量与我们习惯的白进行比较。

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

被称为子推进，它将使用一套巨大的激来推动飞船前进。

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

子芯片也能助力突破无线带宽的限。

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

基于学、子学用于通信、超导电子学用于计算，这一切是如何工作的？

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，互联网主要是通过纤发送数据的子学。

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

因此，考虑到我子学面的背景，自然而然地就想到， 好吧，我们用来进行通信。

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

但一种相关技术——集成子学，已经来拯救。