Innovative technique for shaping light could solve bandwidth crunch
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 11:33
in Physics & Chemistry
As data demands continue to grow, scientists predict that it's only a matter of time before today's telecommunication networks reach capacity unless new technologies are developed for transporting data. A new technique could help avert this bandwidth crunch by allowing light-based optical networks to carry more than one hundred times more data than is possible with current technologies.