"Time Telescope" Could Boost Fibre-Optic Communications

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 28, 2009 @08:49AM from the way-faster-than-88-mph dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A time lens can focus a chunk of time to a point, rather like a normal lens focuses light rays. Put two time lenses together and you can create what a Cornell University team calls a 'time domain telescope' which can magnify time. They sent a 2.5 nanosecond long light pulse, encoding 24 bits of information, into their time telescope. What came out on the other side was the same 24 bit pulse, but compressed into 92 picoseconds. Squashing more information into a light pulse could help to send more information via optical fibres."

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Re:salesman speak by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-28 08:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

That's not very web 2.0 of you! The cloud will focus it's wrath upon you with a time lense. Smote.
Re:Oh good! by RichardJenkins · 2009-09-28 09:47 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Can it see back into last night so I can find where I put my keys?
Re:Oh good! by fractoid · 2009-09-28 13:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What, no whale ride? :(

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