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- jumjum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Optical equipment and cable for network use is already -very- expensive. Current optical cables bounce the light off its internal cladding in an unorganized V-pattern, though still exceedingly fast (13+ Gbps). Imagine how expensive, and fast, this will be.
- shaggyoldman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is a point there--but I'll agree it's a little obtuse. The last piece of the article points out "orbital angular momentum allows light to carry more bits of information per photon " which will be useful if we start making communication utilizing photons rather than electrons more accessible and versatile. (Think hyper-fiber optics).
In fact I think there was just an article on Digg the other day about recent developments in quantum computing. It's a technology that's probably decades off, but when (and if) it gets here traditional bit-fiddling could go the way of the betamax. - dsterry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I actually thought I was contributing some useful info/questions to the conversation. I happen to love physics and wanted to highlight this article in a way more than just to digg it. The link must've been even more negative than -11 offtopic and for that apologize. I do wonder if anyone else in this world has a desire to be credited further than just with a link to a profile.
- WyllyWylly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Uhhh... what's the point? I'm not sure, and there's no explanation of why this was done or any of the practical implications of the research: 'might make possible novel kinds of logic operations in future optical or even quantum computers'.
No digg. - justinmorris, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9Duurrrr, let's spam my ***** blog!
- justinmorris, on 10/12/2007, -11/+9***** you too spammer.
- dsterry, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6This is very interesting from a physics point of view. I wonder if freshman phsics will need to be updated with this info. I know the furthest we went was to circularly polarized EMR and it's application in satellite communications. So it seems it'll be most immediately useful in fiber optics...does that mean I can finally have fiber to my apartment? Probably not, but at least the biggest pipes may be able to scale with the last mile.
-Dave http://www.commentsovernews.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2Its all good exciting but until I have a device that deploys this technology i'm not going to get too excited!!! Will be great once it does arrive though!!
Jeff - http://jeffeh.com
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