Melbourne | Due to the coronavirus pandemic people are forced to isolate themselves and work from home. In today's world, Internet plays a key component in this concept. Hence, Bill Corcoran (Monash University), Distinguished Professor Arnan Mitchell (RMIT) and Professor David Moss (Swinbern) gives us a ray of hope in continuing our work without interruptions. They have successfully recorded a speed of 44.2 terabytes per second with the help of a light source, according to the study published in a science journal "Nature Communications".
... But how?
No new inputs but the once available were used to make this trial successful. Scientists used a device that uses a micro-comb which is an equivalent for 80 lasers. It is small and light making it ideal to install it in telecommunication hardware.
The researchers installed 76.6km of 'dark' optical fibres between RMIT's Melbourne City Campus and Monash University's Clayton Campus. Researchers placed micro-combs in between these optical fibres and voila! They were able to send maximum data down each channel, simulating peak internet usage, across 4THz of bandwidth.
What we get
According to the Akamai Q1 2017 State of the Internet Report, the average internet connection speed in India is 6.5 Mbit/s.
Using this advancement, not only we will be able to watch our Netflix shows uninterrupted but could run self-driving cars, industries as well as fields like medicine, e-commerce, education and finance would prosper too.
Thoughts of the makers
"Long-term, we hope to create integrated photonic chips that could enable this sort of data rate to be achieved across existing optical fibre links with minimal cost," Distinguished Professor Mitchell said.
Professor Moss, Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne University, said: "In the 10 years since I co-invented micro-comb chips, they have become an enormously important field of research.
We truly appreciate dedication of these genius minds towards increasing the speed of the world as well as the internet.
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