Light relief

• Autores: Timothy Revell
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3075, 2016, págs. 28-30
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Bulky copper cables remained the status quo for over a century. And then along came optical fibres: glass cylinders the width of a human hair. Capable of transmitting information over vast distances using laser light, they enabled the modern connected world. Today, more than 2 billion kilometers of optical fibres criss-cross the globe, with more rolling off the production line at a rate nearly 20 times the speed of sound. Here, Revell discusses the optical fibre revolution.