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by cmmeur01 1284 days ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics
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That doesn't involve a laser like in the article, and is probably much slower. I don't think you can get Terahertz speeds by just using Newtonian physics on water.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860314/ Microfluidic Photonic Integrated Circuits?
While the paper's keywords list includes both microfluidics and photonics, nothing about the device is anything like an opto-fluidic logic gate. The laser is used to measure properties of cells suspended in the fluid, with the output light signal being processed by conventional photonics.