{"id":114721,"date":"2020-10-19T21:16:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T04:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/a-trillion-turns-of-light-nets-terahertz-polarized-bytes"},"modified":"2020-10-19T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T04:16:59","slug":"a-trillion-turns-of-light-nets-terahertz-polarized-bytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/a-trillion-turns-of-light-nets-terahertz-polarized-bytes","title":{"rendered":"A trillion turns of light nets terahertz polarized bytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-trillion-turns-of-light-nets-terahertz-polarized-bytes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. and Italian engineers have demonstrated the first nanophotonic platform capable of manipulating polarized light 1 trillion times per second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolarized light can be used to encode bits of information, and we\u2019ve shown it\u2019s possible to modulate such light at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/terahertz+frequencies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">terahertz frequencies<\/a>,\u201d said Rice University\u2019s Alessandro Alabastri, co-corresponding author of a study published this week in Nature Photonics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could potentially be used in wireless communications,\u201d said Alabastri, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in Rice\u2019s Brown School of Engineering. \u201cThe higher the operating frequency of a signal, the faster it can transmit data. One terahertz equals 1,000 gigahertz, which is about 25 times higher than the operating frequencies of commercially available optical polarization switches.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. and Italian engineers have demonstrated the first nanophotonic platform capable of manipulating polarized light 1 trillion times per second. \u201cPolarized light can be used to encode bits of information, and we\u2019ve shown it\u2019s possible to modulate such light at terahertz frequencies,\u201d said Rice University\u2019s Alessandro Alabastri, co-corresponding author of a study published this week [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}