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Scientists Map Spiraling Light For Faster Net
Mark.JUK writes "Scientists working at New York's Institute of Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers have discovered a new way of mapping the multiple higher channels / more complex light in an optical fibre, which could allow telecommunications operators the ability to harness 'untapped data channels' and thus improve broadband speeds and internet capacity across the world. Critically, the new model allows scientists to follow polarization and other changes as light travels, which also gives you an insight into the material that it travels through. Until recently it wasn't possible to map such light, but all that has changed thanks to the globe-shaped Higher Order Poincare Sphere model."
Even though many readers of slashdot are themselves globe shaped, they would rather spend their time trolling than looking at globe shaped models.
...and thus improve broadband speeds and internet capacity across the rest of the world outside of the United States!....
FTFY. I think there is more than enough evidence to point to the fact that shitty boradband speeds in the United States are due to politics, greed, corruption, and outright laziness more than a lack of technology.
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Great, and the big providers will still cap us to cable speeds from a decade ago and charge for overages!
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