Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 107 Photonic Transistors

February 2, the second day of the Chinese New Year.

Zhong Cheng and Director Qian returned to Beishan by civil flight.

Along the way, Director Qian inquired about Zhong Cheng's situation at Ye's house.

Zhong Cheng understood that the New Year's visit to Ye's house was a premeditated arrangement by Director Qian and Dean Ye to facilitate him and Ye Wenxin.

He is grateful for Director Qian's kindness, but he is really not good at this kind of thing!

Just wait and see!

Early the next morning, Zhong Chengcheng saw Gui Bin on the ninth basement floor of "Tianwaitian".

"The vacation is not over yet, why come to work?"

"I'm always thinking about the photonic computer, and I don't have the mind to play, so I might as well come to work early!"

Gui Bin is well aware of what photonic computers mean to everyone, but he is really powerless. In addition to work, he has spent his spare time researching photonic computers for more than a year.

A few years ago, he himself had studied photonic computers, but felt that it was difficult to break through the current level of technology.

Zhong Cheng and Gui Bin walked to the office and sat down separately.

Now members of Zhong Cheng's small team have been working on the ninth basement floor for a long time.

In fact, the personnel in the R&D center on the third basement floor of the R&D location are only part of the R&D personnel, and some special groups have dedicated office research areas on each floor.

The R&D personnel managed by Director Luo are more like a personnel reserve center. When a special team is established or when there is insufficient manpower, personnel will be provided. When the special team is disbanded, personnel will be recycled and new R&D personnel will be accepted from the outside.

Zhong Cheng went straight to the topic: "Tell me about the current situation!"

"In fact, the performance of the photonic computers that have come out so far has not surpassed that of traditional electronic computers. The cost is still high, and there is no practical value at all." Gui Bin said helplessly.

"The main reason is that optoelectronic modules are still used, and part of the electronic chips are kept in combination with light. To put it bluntly, the current electronic chips are used to control the operation of photons."

Gui Bin helped the mirror frame, "Only by developing a photonic transistor, using one light beam to control the change of another light beam, completely replacing all electronic transistors, and creating an 'optical chip', can we truly create a calculation rate of 1000 billion times per second. photonic computer above."

(PS: The current calculation rate of ordinary electronic computers is about one billion times per second.)
Zhong Cheng helped him conclude: "Are you saying that photonic transistors cannot be produced now?"

Gui Bin smiled bitterly, "As long as there is a photonic transistor, other optical components in the optical chip, such as mirrors, lenses, and prisms, will be fine, but I have no confidence in developing a photonic transistor."

Zhong Cheng recalled the knowledge about photonic transistors in his mind, and found that the biggest difficulty lies in the control of photons.

For photons to function as signals, they must collide with each other to transmit information, but the photons themselves barely interact.

When two beams intersect, they pass directly through each other unchanged, which is known as linear optics.

The work to be done now is to deal with nonlinear optics, which is to make photons in light interact with each other when they collide with each other.

However, this situation is difficult to realize in reality. The photon is very small, so it is difficult to collide with another photon in reality unless the trajectory of the photon can be well controlled.

"Okay, let me handle the matter of the photonic transistor, and you can start the design of the photonic chip now."

Zhong Cheng knew that he was the only one who could do this, and with Gui Bin's current ability, there was really nothing he could do.

Gui Bin gave Zhong Cheng a surprised look, but he still chose to believe it.

……

Gui Bin went to the laboratory, Zhong Cheng sat in the office alone and started to daze.

He called up the 'Great Power Heavy Industry System' in his mind, ready to take a chance.

He was also unable to develop a photonic transistor, which requires a lot of experimental accumulation and inspiration, which is not a task that can be completed in one or two years.

The only hope is to unlock the photonic transistor technology in the 'Great Power Heavy Industry System'.

At present, he has more than 200 million technology point reserves in the 'Great Power Heavy Industry System', which is enough for him to gamble several times.

He checked the system and found that photonic computer technology requires 100 million points to unlock, and there are three technologies that need to be unlocked in the front-end technology: photonic transistors, lasers, and carbon nanotubes.

These three technologies are not a simple parallel and series relationship, and photonic transistors can only be unlocked after unlocking laser and carbon nanotube technology.

The unlocking of lasers also requires carbon nanotubes as a precursor. It can be said that carbon nanotube technology is the precursor technology of the entire photonic computer technology.

And carbon nanotubes also have a pre-technology to be unlocked: the production technology of pure graphene superconducting materials.

Zhong Cheng can still understand the need to unlock the technology related to carbon nanotubes, but lasers are technologies that have been developed by human beings for decades. The laser cannon and laser generator used on Jingwei-50 are very advanced, and it will take [-] Is Wanke point unlocked?

In the 'Great Power Heavy Industry System', the unlocked technology is just a name without any explanation, which gave Zhong Cheng a headache.

At this point, 9527 can't help, saying that Zhong Cheng doesn't spend technology points to make it "recall" the specific content, and it didn't know before that.

However, 9527 reassured Zhong Cheng that for these common technologies, there is no need to worry about spending technology points but not getting the technology. Even if there is no direct content, it can be found from some related technologies by unlocking it a few times.

What kind of talk is this?
He did the math, and unlocked all the related technologies of the photonic computer, a total of more than 300 million technology points were needed, and his reserves were not enough, and he had to wait for two months.

The accumulation of two years will be taken away by 9527!

Let's think about it again. After going to work, discuss the relevant technologies with the team members before making a decision. It is best to develop it yourself, without wasting technology points, and have a more thorough understanding.

Relying on your own research and development is the last word!

……

On the sixth day, Yang Xi and Zhou Hu came to work early.

It's not that everyone from Beishan has come to Yang Xi, but Zhao Wei, who lives in Beishan, hasn't come yet, which makes Zhong Cheng a little surprised.

On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Li Mei, Liu Yuzhu, and Jiang Yan, who live in other places, also rushed back to the research and development center in the evening.

The eighth day of the new year is the first day of official work after the year, and Zhao Wei went to the research and development institute at the time of work.

Zhao Wei looked normal and there was nothing unusual. Zhong Cheng asked him if there was anything wrong, and he smiled and said that he could do anything.

He was divorced a few years ago, his child followed his ex-wife, his parents followed his sister, he has a car and a house, and his income is very high, he can be regarded as the fifth son of the bronze king.

But since he's fine, why didn't he come to work early? A few years ago, he couldn't stay at home because he was in the second and third grades of junior high school.

Of course Zhong Cheng didn't ask that directly, and now he speaks a little bit properly.

He's trying to master the art of speaking!
But to really be able to speak, one needs to penetrate people's hearts, figure out people's hearts, and understand the ways of the world, and he is still far behind in this point!
This is also a technical job!

(End of this chapter)