Holy short light waves Batman!
A huge leap forward in optical communication is about to happen. They have reliably shortened the wavelength of a single light pulse to 4.3 femtoseconds by using converging waves to cancel out most of the larger wave.
It sounds interesting, but it can revolutionize existing fiber installations by shortening the amount of light required to indicate binary bits. This would significantly increase the available bandwidth on existing infrastructure by only requiring source and end point changes.
I love how we just keep squeezing out ways to extend existing infrastructure.
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