Posted on 03/04/2011 4:34:13 PM PST by epithermal
Researchers at Chalmers in Sweden have shown that a surface emitting laser – a cheaper and more energy-efficient type of laser for fiber optics than conventional lasers – can deliver error-free data at a record speed of 40 Gbit/s. The break-through could lead to faster Internet traffic, computers and mobile phones.
Today's commercial lasers can send up to 10 Gb of data per second (Gbit/s) through optical fibers. This applies to both conventional lasers and to surface emitting lasers. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have managed to increase the speed of the surface emitting laser four times, and see potential for further capacity increase.
This research will create great opportunities, not only for different types of local networks and supercomputers, but also for consumer electronics. By using multiple (parallel) channels computer cables with a total capacity of several hundred Gbit/s can be constructed.
“The market for this technology is gigantic. In the huge data centers that handle the Internet there are today over one hundred million surface emitting lasers. That figure is expected to increase a hundredfold,” says Professor Anders Larsson, who has developed the high speed laser together with his research group in optoelectronics.
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/mark!
This laser is faster than your laser. Want to know why? Because I can turn this one up to “11”.
Look at it this way: you’ll be getting your Dear John e-mail four times faster!
are there slow lasers?
Yeah, some only go the speed of light, the poor bast$%^s.
I can’t wait until Comcast, DirecTV and DishTV go out of business and I watch all my TV shows on the internet.
I read last year that Alcatel-Lucent was shipping 100 Gbps equipment.
lol
I think this article means speed per laser. The 100 Gigs/s may be from several lasers combined?
My schwartz is bigger than your schwartz.
>>>>I can’t wait until Comcast, DirecTV and DishTV go out of business and I watch all my TV shows on the internet.
Amen. Everything on demand, piped to a media server in your house.
Ummm guys, back in 2008 Ciena announced a 100 Gigabit ethernet product.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeJZfGTdrJI
error-free data at a record speed of 40 Gbit/s
Now if we can only get frickin’ sharks with lasers attached to their frickin’ heads...
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