Using laser as a way of information transmission is hardly anything new, however the current crop of laser diodes can only handle rather a lot stress, so long as they don’t fail within the first place. Luckily, the geniuses over on the University of Central Florida are about to deliver a smaller yet more intense and more reliable diode, that allows you to result in many more potential applications even beyond the scope of networking — think cheaper, better hair removal. Little is alleged about how Professor Dennis Deppe’s team made this possible, but when they exercise session easy methods to optimize the operating voltage for better efficiency, Deppe reckons we’ll see diode-embedded high speed, high bandwidth cables within the shops in four or five years’ time. Seriously, we’d do anything to maintain our latency low for some HD gaming action.
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