{"id":115569,"date":"2020-11-07T04:54:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/worlds-longest-laser-270-km-long-created"},"modified":"2020-11-07T04:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:54:29","slug":"worlds-longest-laser-270-km-long-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/worlds-longest-laser-270-km-long-created","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s longest laser \u2014 270 km long \u2014 created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.worlds-longest-laser-270-km-long-created.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2009.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A 270-kilometre optical fiber has been transformed into the world\u2019s longest laser, a feat its inventors believe will lead to a radical new outlook on information transmission and secure communications.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering academics at Aston University, UK<em>, <\/em>are leading research into ultralong fiber lasers, to create a platform capable of delivering \u2018next generation\u2019 information transmission, including telecommunications and broadband.<\/p>\n<p>When normal telephone conversations or data sent over the internet are converted to light in order to travel through standard optical fibers the signals lose around 5 per cent of their power for every kilometre that they travel. The signals then have to be amplified to ensure that they reach their destination, a process which creates background noise and affects the signals quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2009. A 270-kilometre optical fiber has been transformed into the world\u2019s longest laser, a feat its inventors believe will lead to a radical new outlook on information transmission and secure communications. Engineering academics at Aston University, UK, are leading research into ultralong fiber lasers, to create a platform capable of delivering \u2018next generation\u2019 information [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115569","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=115569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}