With the help of thunderstorms and everyday fiber-optic cables, these scientists are revealing a hidden world underground.
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Fiber optics allow you to search the internet, text your friends and check your social media feeds. They also have geological, security and manufacturing applications.
The 485 multiterabit-per-second undersea data cables that span the world’s oceans link the globe and maintain the digital realm.
In sub-Saharan Africa, most governments welcome China’s investment in digital infrastructure.
Americans depend more than ever on high-speed internet to connect to jobs, get health care and socialize. What policies really work to close the rural-urban digital divide?
In 1954, three scientists observed a paradox to which they gave their name: the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence. Now, fibre optics are on the way to finally providing an explanation.
To understand what is happening in an optical fibre, physicists can mimic a rupture of the flow of grains of light – the photons – thanks to a laser device.
World-class fiber-based internet service is available in less than a quarter of Los Angeles County. By contrast, it’s almost ubiquitous in Stockholm and Paris.
The design of a new chip to detect the twisted nature of light waves could pave the way for next generation of optical communication technologies.
Whatever BT, Virgin Media and other telecoms firms may say, the only future-proof network is a fibre-optic from door-to-door.
The cloud lies under the ocean. Thin cables about as big around as a garden hose traverse the Earth’s oceans carrying all our intercontinental internet data.
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Chercheur au Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, Université de Lille
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Professeur au Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules (PHLAM), CNRS UMR8523, IRCICA, Université de Lille
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Professor of Optics, University of Ferrara
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Associate Professor of Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Professor of Optical Communications & Networks, UCL
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Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship, RMIT University
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Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
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Professor in Photonics, Electrical, Electronic and Power Engineering, Aston University
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Professor of Communication and Spatial Sciences, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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PhD Candidate, Università di Bologna
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Professor and Neustadt Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University
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Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Quinnipiac University
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Vice President for Engagement, Associate Professor, Purdue University
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University