Who needs to run cables, copper, fiber, whatever, when all this can be done through wireless. A mesh grid of 802.11(g) connections are super cheap, super fast and can be implemented in the next 10 years without billions of investment in infrastructure.
face it. the wired phone companies as we know them are dead. they just haven't realized it yet
The gain in resolution you'd make (if the beam was being highly focused, which i doubt) would be sub-micron. I don't know about you, but my hands are pretty shaky. The improvement would make no noticeable difference
Si photodiodes are good up until about 1000nm which is defintely IR.
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Who needs to run cables, copper, fiber, whatever, when all this can be done through wireless. A mesh grid of 802.11(g) connections are super cheap, super fast and can be implemented in the next 10 years without billions of investment in infrastructure. face it. the wired phone companies as we know them are dead. they just haven't realized it yet
The gain in resolution you'd make (if the beam was being highly focused, which i doubt) would be sub-micron. I don't know about you, but my hands are pretty shaky. The improvement would make no noticeable difference Si photodiodes are good up until about 1000nm which is defintely IR.