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'Slow' Light to Speed Up the Net | BBC NEWS
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:49 AM EDT
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"The light and the fibres can quite cheerfully sustain a couple of terahertz, but your electronics can't do more than a few gigahertz."
It is at this point that the metamaterials prove most useful. If the light signals could be slowed sufficiently during the switching process, there would be no need for the electrical conversion step.
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The optical properties of metamaterials are accomplished by design—which is why they are touted for use in cloaking—and they can be engineered to deliberately slow light down.
The effect could be used to store light signals, with different delays for different frequencies, in a so-called "all optical network".
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#1 - Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:50 AM EDT{"commentId":2461030,"authorDomain":"nigeriawhatisnew"}
Prof Hess says. "There needs to be more clever ideas so that the existing infrastructure can be used in a different way."
Where is Greed Inc when you needed them?
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#2 - Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:38 AM EDT{"commentId":2480584,"authorDomain":"ceosvcs"}
Post Transformers, movements to slow in order to distinguish? Sounds like the old assembly line approach in the modern day of technology.
Perhaps the beginning of the Meta Technical Revolution?
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