This system is responsible for transmitting incredible amounts of data across the world every second of every day.
That’s the equivalent of transmitting the traffic on the internet across a single second.
Fiber optic cables pass data through light.
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Here, a specially designed chip receives the light of the laser.
It then sorts and separates the frequencies of the light.
In this way, the chip acts as a comb, and the frequencies emanate from it like teeth.
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The more teeth, the more data is transmitted.
This cable had 37 cores, each with 233 frequencies per core.
Through modulation, each frequency undulates the light to represent to 0s and 1s which compose data.
At present, the development has only been tested with fake data.
Computers need to further develop to produce or receive this amount of data.
However, technology is rapidly advancing in the field of fiber optics.
The researcher’s results suggest scaling up will be quite possible.
That’s the equivalent of transmitting the traffic on the internet across a single second.
