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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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