New device for ultrafast optical communications

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 12:28 in Physics & Chemistry

A new device invented by engineers in California could make it much faster to convert pulses of light into electronic signals and back again. The technology could be applied to ultrafast, high-capacity communications, imaging of the Earth's surface and for encrypting secure messages.

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