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Most of our gadgets rely on chips. Electronic chips. But that’s about to change. The chips of the future are chips of light. They use light particles known as photons to move data. Europe wants to lead the way in the technolgy. The World’s Gerry Hadden takes us to the Spanish town of Castelldefels to check out one of Europe’s leading photonics laboratories.