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Hollow Optical Fibres Can Now Process Signals

Posted by timothy on from the computer-is-the-network dept.

Ami_Chan writes: "According to Nature, researchers at Bell Labs have created a new type of optical fibre. This fibre is hollow, and can be tuned to different wavelengths of light using 'plugs of fluid' and temperature changes within the fibre. This allows the fibres to process signals as well as transmit them. The full article is here."

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  1. Wow! by Limburgher · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if one of those fiber-optic lamps you can get would function as a CPU. . .

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  2. AMAZING! by EvilAlien · · Score: 4, Funny
    This has an amazing amount of promise. The implications of this technology are staggering.

    Now I just wish I wasn't all wacked out on a coke slurpee and sluggish from lunch so that I could think about the implications and actually say something intelligent.

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  3. This has significant ramifications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the Lite-Brite product line.

  4. Denial of Service... by ioexcptn · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...with a heat gun. So all I have to do is heat the fibre up and completely destroy data integrity? Sounds like a great idea.

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  5. ...and by docbrown42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...they make nifty drinking straws!


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