Trapping light on a chip for millions of cycles with virtually zero loss for faster, more energy-efficient computing and telecommunications

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1123356

"atomic-scale van der Waals layers too fragile for standard engineering, overcome shielding during fabrication... smoother microdisk surfaces reduce friction/loss allowing light to circulate millions of times before fading, at much lower power levels, enabling more complex optical operations on single chip... <1 ppm of light lost/ cycle, 10,000X better light conversion, critical for non-linear photonics/ signal processing... quantum computing/ communications, highly sensitive sensors"