When these photons strike the surface, they knock electrons off it; we call these photoelectrons.

当这些光子撞击表面时，它们会把电子撞开；我们称之为光电子。

That technology is called photoelectron spectroscopy.

这项技术被称为光电子能谱。

And in chemistry, in science, we can actually measure ionization energy using something called photoelectron spectroscopy.

在化和领域，我们实际上可以使用光电子能谱来测量电离能。

He visited a laser engineering company and learned about the development of the optical electronic information industry in Hubei.

他参观一家激光工程公司，北光电子信息产业的发展情况。

If we're looking at a sample of hydrogen we're going to create a spectrum or a photoelectron spectrum.

如果我们正在观察氢样本，我们将创建一个光谱或光电子谱。

And so what's cool about photoelectron spectroscopy is we can actually verify the predictions that we made with Coulomb's Law.

因此, 光电子光谱的酷之处在于, 我们实际上可以验证我们用库仑定律做出的预测。

The electrons which are emitted during such a process are called photoelectrons.

在这样的过程中发射出来的电子被称为光电子。

One of the places you're envisioning it is in the paper on optoelectronic intelligence.

你构想的其中一个地方是在关于光电子智能的论文中。

I got a chance to read a fascinating paper you authored called Optoelectronic Intelligence.

我有机会读到你撰写的一篇名为《光电子智能》的有趣论文。

Look at this graph, you can see that the number of photoelectrons emitted increases as the intensity of the incident light increases.

看这张图，你可以看到，随着入射光强度的增加，发射的光电子数量也在增加。

MIKE VOLPI: I was a product design engineer for HP in the optoelectronics division.

迈克·沃尔皮：我在惠普的光电子部门担任产品设计工程师。

And I don't think that's specific to the optoelectronic approach that we're taking.

我认为这并不特定于我们所采用的光电子方法。

Okay, so what are the other engineering challenges of making this kind of optoelectronic systems?

那么，制造这种光电子系统还面临哪些其他工程挑战呢？

So in this paper that we mentioned, Optoelectronic Intelligence, you say electrons excel at computation, while light is excellent for communication.

所以在我们在论文《光电子智能》中提到，电子在计算方面表现出色，而光在通信方面非常优秀。

In the new study, the researchers designed an integrated photoelectronic processor to harness the advantages of both light, in the form of photons, and electrons, as found in electric currents, in an all-analog way.

在这项新研究中，研究人员设计一种集成光电子处理器，以全模拟方式利用光子形式的光和电流中的电子的优势。

So this does seem like one of those spaces where the scale of superconducting optoelectronics, the way that, so when you talk about the weaknesses, like I said, OK, well, you have to cool it down.

这确实看起来像是超导光电子能够大展身手的领域之一，尤其是当我们讨论其弱点时，正如我之前提到的， 好吧，你必须将其冷却。 但在这一规模上， 这不成问题， 因为冷却成本并不会增加太多。