New record for reading optical data : 640 Gbits/second

Monday, February 2, 2009 - 16:35 in Physics & Chemistry

Sliced light is how we communicate now. Millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser pulses into bits. read more

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