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HOW FIBER OPTICS WORKS. https://lnkd.in/e84TmaR View in LinkedIn

2015 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT and light based technologies. "The United Nations have proclaimed the year 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies." https://lnkd.in/eG77JKS View in LinkedIn

FASTER PHOTONICS. "Electric current propagates at about 10 percent of the speed of light (18,000 to 19,000 miles or 30,000 kilometers per second), while the energy in fiber optic systems travels at the speed of light. This results in shorter data-transmission delay times between the end points of a network." https://lnkd.in/eHuh2FB View in LinkedIn

PHOTON MANIPULATION is nature's finest game. Sir Isaac Newton (and others) were drawn to these phenomena out of pure intellectual curiosity, and developed the discipline of optics with huge precision and elegance. Little did they know that optics (photons), and its sister discipline electronics (electrons), would completely transform modern society. View in LinkedIn

PHOTONIC NETWORKS. "In a true photonic network, every switch and every repeater works with IR or visible-light energy and conversion to and from electrical impulses is only done at the source and destination (origin and end point)." https://lnkd.in/eHuh2FB View in LinkedIn

SEA MOUSE PHOTONIC CRYSTALS. "This optical effect is unique in nature: it is the first photonic crystal found in a living system, and much more regularly constructed than the previous example of a photonic crystal from nature (the opal)." https://lnkd.in/eakUxgP View in LinkedIn

LOW-TECH UNDERSEA FIBER CABLES. "A massive network of fiber optic cables lies deep under the seas across the Earth...Submarine data cables date back to 1850, when the first international telegraph cable (with a capacity of 10 words per minute) spanned the channel between England and France. As early as 1901, telegraph cables crisscrossed the oceans and connected all the continents except for Antarctica." https://lnkd.in/eGxMup5 View in LinkedIn

DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY. "The MIT Communications Technology Roadmap recently published an evaluation of the vast array of new photonic technologies that have disrupted the telecommunications industry. This direction will trigger a major shift in the leadership of the component industry from information transmission (telecom) to information processing (computing, imaging)." https://lnkd.in/eAzxwaq View in LinkedIn

NEXT BIG THING. "The optical components industry stands at the threshold of a major expansion that will restructure its business processes and sustain its profitability for the next three decades. This growth will establish a cost effective platform for the partitioning of electronic and photonic functionality to extend the processing power of integrated circuits." https://lnkd.in/eAzxwaq View in LinkedIn

EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. "It is hard to comprehend the potential impact of such an explosive growth in complexity and capacity, because this rate of development is hardly seen in any other technology. Notable exceptions include the aforementioned electronic chips and, of course, the internet." https://lnkd.in/eSKtEqB View in LinkedIn