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

光子晶体也是使这些象鼻虫看起来像是浸在闪光粉中的原因。

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

所以，研究人员制造个光子芯片——这种计算机芯片用光子代替电子。

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

使用模拟光信号的光子计算是解决这个问题最有前途的方法。

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

但项相关技术， 即集成光子学， 已经派上用场。

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

光子芯片也有助于打破无线带宽限制。

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

光子学本质上允许互联网以今天的方式存在。

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，互联网主要是通过光纤发送数据的光子学。

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

被称为光子推进，它将使用组巨大的激光器来推动船只前进。

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

伦敦玛丽女王大学光子学研究员 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。

" 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.

“这种令人耳目新的、务实的人工智能硬件方法，高效节能，充分利用电子和光子计算技术，”它说。

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.

有集成光子学，调制器和探测器被缩小到不到十分毫米，并被装进微型芯片，有朝日可以装进汽车的灯里。

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.

这是项艰巨的任务，但有个解决方案可以让两件事结合起来： 种特殊的基于激光的探测器，叫做激光雷达（LIDAR），以及种保持互联网运转的微型通信技术，叫做集成光子学。

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光子晶体，种以周期性或重复模式在三维空间内弯曲和反射光的晶体。