A telecom breakthrough mimics the settling snow
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Ivan Biaggio is part of an international research team that developed an organic material that fills in the gaps between silicon waveguides.
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard.
In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the two bricks.
What you will see, says
Ivan Biaggio, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds.
Biaggio, an associate professor of physics at Lehigh, is part of an international team of researchers that has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and the strong ability to mediate light-to-light interaction. The team has engineered the integration of this material with silicon technology so it can be used in optical telecommunication devices.
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Check the part of the article where it mentions being able to reach a 42.7Gbps transfer rate... that's shocking :shockkk!:
