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Ref:
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/sci...eut/index.html

"Phil Hobbs"
Sorry, it's a bit older than I thought:
http://www.darpa.mil/baa/baa04-01.htm

I know it's natural to poo-poo all things new, but this NG takes the cake
sometimes.

CNN, "Until now, no one had been able to make a device small enough to act
as an antenna for [visible] light." ['visible' light is from the CNN
article's lead paragraph]. Seems pretty clear that the news is the size.
Other than scale, they've simply made some good ole' fashioned vertical
monopoles.

That DARPA link (above) leads to 'blah, blah, blah' about millimetre wave
and IR - not visible light. And they're looking for someone to invent same -
it wasn't exactly a purchase order for an off-the-shelf product. And
(apparently worth repeating) it wasn't for visible light scale.

If anyone can provide any 'old' news for actual 'EM' antennas for ~visible~
light, please post the link and be sure to alert Boston College(*) and CNN
and DARPA. Insect eyes don't count (not even close) - not EM technology.

(* OMG - Let's quickly put any obvious fractal derivatives into the public
domain here and now.)




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