[Robotgroup] WD

[Shane Geiger]

It seems that this is very pertinent to many areas of computing.  
Perhaps especially so to robotics.


Photonic Breakthrough Allows 'Lab-on-a-Chip'
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9742867/article.pl
Roland Piquepaille writes "Georgia Tech researchers have shrunk an 
optical device called wavelength demultiplier (WD) by combining into one 
crystal three unique properties of photonics crystals. This optical 
discovery opens the way to sophisticated and cheap bio-sensors mounted 
on 'lab-on-a-chip' devices -- sensors to run blood tests, detect 
chemicals in water supplies or for drug testing. Their new WD is less 
than a millimeter in all dimensions rather than the several centimeters 
of other currently available WDs. And it should not cost more to produce."
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