Single Laser Powers Record Data Transfer Rate

Patricia Daukantas

German investigators achieved a transfer rate of 26 Tbits/s over 50 km of single-mode fiber by using a multiplexing technique borrowed from wireless communications.

Scatterings imageConceptual image of OFDM data stream down a single-mode fiber..

Researchers led by Wolfgang Freude, David Hillenkuss and Juerg Leuthold of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) achieved a transfer rate of 26 Tbits/s over 50 km of single-mode fiber by using a multiplexing technique borrowed from wireless communications (Nature Photon. 5, 364).

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