Optical Fiber EPFL

While wireless transmission capability is moving toward 1 gigabyte/second, wired capability is leaping ahead even more dramatically.  Engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have found a way to reduce the size of laser light pulses in optic fiber which increases data throughput by a factor of ten. In effect, this represents a 10x increase in bandwidth, just as medicine is beginning to think of healthcare communications as an “internet of things.”  MORE

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