Optical cable industry breakthrough: Allows signals to travel 100 times faster than current

Just twist the light from the straight line into a zigzag line, it's simple!

Do you believe it?New fiber optic technology will allow the network speed to run 100 times faster than the current. Briefly say: The future fiber optic cable will detect whether the light is twisted into a "quiver" , and will then bring the transmission rate to a hundred times.

Today's fiber optic cable is transmitting signals with each beam of light.

New research published in Nature Communications shows that we can upgrade our existing network infrastructure and increase capacity many times. Today's fiber optic cable is transmitting signals with each beam of light (so called " optical" cable), light waves that run vertically or horizontally also work.

But what if it follows twists? It will turn into a breakthrough. Scientists create one more dimension, dedicated to light so that it carries more information in it. " Just like DNA strands, you look at its twisted structure , " said Professor Min Gu from RMIT University . "The more angular momentum that is angled, the more data we can carry in one transmission."

Previously, American researchers created a light-twisting cable, Professor Gu's team had a newer approach, the next step of the study: they created a The transmitter detects waves of sufficient size to read signals located in twisted light.

Previous light wave detectors were as big as a dining table, but the new system was as small as a human hair."We can produce new chips, detect twisted light and display content," Gu said.

This new study could be applied to the Internet wiring of copper wires.

We can apply new technology to existing fiber optic systems. Even, Professor Gu asserted that their research could be applied to Internet systems running copper wires."We will make data transfer much more efficient than before."

However, the new way still needs new cables to twist the light. Any system upgrade, including ordinary optical cable. We have just achieved the applied science but not the magic, holding the pliers to twist the wires to twist the light, accelerating the network to 100 times.

Besides, users must also be willing to accept replacement lines. Many households refuse to upgrade their home wires, fearing that the new line will affect more or less on the already stable wiring. Most likely they will refuse, even if the speed has increased by a hundred times.

"New communication technologies are still being tested regularly in the research labs, considering whether many years later, we can apply it to practice. It will have to be accepted by companies, the The network agreed before ready to connect to each household " .