A High-Bandwidth Interplanetary Connection
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from the tell-your-data-to-get-bent dept.
sciencehabit writes"A new study suggests that by twisting laser light, scientists could pack enough information into interplanetary beams tospeed up extraterrestrial communications to the multi-gigabit level. The pulses would be passed through a hologram or multimode optical fiber, which twists the light. On the other side, a telescope would focus the light and a second hologram, or fiber would decode the signal. That could allow much more data-rich communication between, say, Earth and probes on Mars, the researchers say. Closer to home, the approach could provide Internet links of 100 gigabits per second."
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