photonics

  1. DNANF Hollow Core Fiber Delivers 0.091 dB/km Attenuation and 45% Speedup

    The hollowing-out of fiber optics just passed an important milestone: a research team tied to Microsoft and the University of Southampton has reported a hollow‑core optical fiber design that both lowers signal loss below the long‑standing practical floor for silica fiber and propagates light...
  2. [Biochemical] Aussie boffins create "unhackable" data transfer

    Link Removed - Invalid URL Aussie boffins claim to have created a virtually unhackable data transfer. While we know people have made this claim before, we have to admit that this technique strikes us as pretty secure, as your average script kiddie rarely has access to quantum states...