{"id":15355,"date":"2015-06-28T21:13:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T02:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15355"},"modified":"2015-06-28T21:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T02:24:27","slug":"scientists-have-broken-one-of-the-biggest-limits-in-fibre-optic-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15355","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Broken One of the Biggest Limits in Fibre Optic Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Essentially what the UC San Diego researchers did was to develop a system (<strong>frequency comb<\/strong>) that acts a bit like a concert conductor, which is the person responsible for tuning multiple instruments in an orchestra to the same pitch at the beginning of a concert.<\/p>\n<p>The engineers then used this comb to synchronize the frequency variations of the different streams of optical information (<strong>optical carriers<\/strong>), which can compensate in advance for the <strong>crosstalk interference<\/strong> (this will be familiar to those who have been reading about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\" target=\"_new\">FTTC<\/a> \/ VDSL2 Vectoring technology on copper cables) that can occur between multiple communication channels within the fibre optic cable. The frequency comb also ensures that the crosstalk interference is reversible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/scientists-have-broken-one-of-the-biggest-limits-in-fibre-optic-networks.html\">Scientists Have Broken One of the Biggest Limits in Fibre Optic Networks &#8211; ISPreview UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essentially what the UC San Diego researchers did was to develop a system (frequency comb) that acts a bit like a concert conductor, which is the person responsible for tuning multiple instruments in an orchestra to the same pitch at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[1082,100,196,881],"class_list":["post-15355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-fiber-optics","tag-interesting-research","tag-optical-networks","tag-physical-layer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15356,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355\/revisions\/15356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}