Op vrijdag 26 oktober 2018 16:17:56 CEST schreef David C. Rankin:
Or more formally OAM:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/25/twisted_light_networking_speeds/
apparently has the potential to increase fiber-throughput 100 fold.
Now I like to think I'm roundly educated, and my undergrad did dig heavily into the wave-particle duality of photons and light, but this is the first time I've heard about OAM or its use to encode information. Future may not be all that boring after all. An old UNIX tutor: "And even if we could get data transported through whatever medium at the speed of light, dealing with these data would require computing at light speed". This was at a conference where we just heard that 1Mbit/sec accross copper telephony cables was not technically impossible ( where the market said it was ). Like James, my tutor hit the nail: all data transfer speeds depend on getting the data on and off the transport medium.
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