The technological breakthrough created by the manufacture of optical fibers to process ever-increasing global communications demands has spawned a new discipline: photonics. Many experts think that photonics will drive communications innovation in the 21st century in much the same way that electronics dominated the 20th. Although the industry has been flat in some regions because of the weak glob...
Until recently, chemistry was a science of passive control. By adjusting external parameters such as temperature and pressure or even by introducing a catalyst into the reaction, the chemist strove to maximize the yield of the desired products. Then 2 decades ago, a few chemists with some imagination and foresight proposed a new idea: quantum control. By altering the quantum-mechanical wave natur...
