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Electrostatic charge: An invisible threat to fiber-optic networks
Sophisticated fiber-optic networks are particularly vulnerable to ES contamination due to their complex configuration. With ...
Fibre optic cables should be considered 'critical infrastructure' in Africa, Google says
African governments should give fibre optic cables greater protection from attacks and harmonize policies around layouts to ...
Laser Storms: Physicists Create “Light Hurricanes” for 16x Faster Data Transmission
Scientists discovered a way to encode more data into light by creating light vortices with quasicrystals. This method could ...
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Breakthrough ‘light hurricanes’ could revolutionize how we transmit digital data
The future of transmitting massive amounts of data digitally may be here, thanks to new technology that uses a "hurricane" of ...
Salt Lake accident spot plagued by potholes, bumps
A horrific accident in Salt Lake, Kolkata, has drawn attention to the perilous conditions of potholes and road protrusions on ...
Physicists create tiny hurricanes of light that could transport huge amounts of data
Much of modern life depends on the coding of information into means of delivering it. A common method is to encode data in laser light and send it through optic cables. The increasing demand for more ...
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Storm in a laser beam: Physicists create 'light hurricanes' that could transport huge amounts of data
The discovery, centred around controlling tiny hurricanes of light and electromagnetic fields, could revolutionise how much information we can deliver over cables.