If this came true, it could not only radically speed up Internet speeds to approximately 100 times their current speeds, but it would also qualify as dead sexy.
A group of researchers have discovered a fiber optic breakthrough in which existing network speeds and efficiencies could be boosted via twisted light.
The researchers explain it better than I ever could:
Fibre optic cables use pulses of light to transmit information, but currently information can only be stored through the colour of the light, and whether the wave is horizontal or vertical.
By twisting light into a spiral, engineers effectively create a third dimension for light to carry information: the level of orbital angular momentum, or spin. “It’s like DNA, if you look at the double helix spiral,” said Min Gu from RMIT University. “The more you can use angular momentum the more information you can carry.”
In short, you could see Internet speeds approximately 100 times faster than currently available speeds. The first iterations of this network could hit the Australian marketplace in 2020 following assorted hardware upgrades and debugging.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and The Guardian