Scientists hit wireless speeds of 2.56Tbps using light vortex*beams

[DarkTower87]

Researchers at USC, JPL and Tel Aviv University have managed to transfer 2.56 terabits of information by multiplexing 8 x 300Gbps "twisted" streams of visible light into a single beam. The feat exploits a phenomenon which, up until recently, scientists thought may have been impossible to achieve with light: orbital angular momentum (OAM).*

http://www.techspot.com/news/49155-s...tex-beams.html

[Nagoshi]

Wait, does that mean that if we duct tape 4 cars together, we could actually travel faster than a Veyron at top speed?

[Deluded]

Orbitual Angular Momentum?

I can already imagine the pick up lines in bars...

"What do you do?"
"I'm a scientist."
"Really? What did you work on?"
"Orbitual Angular Momentum... I duplexed six 300Gbps twisted fiber optics to achieve a sustained speed of 2.64 Tbps over a single fiber optic."
"........You must be so smart!" *panties fly off*

[Zer010]

Originally Posted by Deluded

Orbitual Angular Momentum?

I can already imagine the pick up lines in bars...

"What do you do?"
"I'm a scientist."
"Really? What did you work on?"
"Orbitual Angular Momentum... I duplexed six 300Gbps twisted fiber optics to achieve a sustained speed of 2.64 Tbps over a single fiber optic."
"........You must be so smart!" *panties fly off*

I totally remembered the scene from the Mask when you said that!

SAM differs from OAM in the same way that the Earth's spin differs from its orbit around our Sun -- imagine SAM as a spinning planet and think of OAM as the orbit of that spinning planet as it travels around a star.

Basically they have managed to make the density problem behind radio a thing of the past. Technology is just going so fast it is hard to keep up these days