{"id":28044,"date":"2016-07-19T20:50:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T03:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/new-detector-overcomes-key-challenge-in-using-light-for-wireless-communications-with-data-rates-of-more-than-2-gigabits-per-second-new-approach-in-photodetection-could-simplify-free-space-optical-co"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:13:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:13:55","slug":"new-detector-overcomes-key-challenge-in-using-light-for-wireless-communications-with-data-rates-of-more-than-2-gigabits-per-second-new-approach-in-photodetection-could-simplify-free-space-optical-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/new-detector-overcomes-key-challenge-in-using-light-for-wireless-communications-with-data-rates-of-more-than-2-gigabits-per-second-new-approach-in-photodetection-could-simplify-free-space-optical-co","title":{"rendered":"New detector overcomes key challenge in using light for wireless communications: With data rates of more than 2 gigabits per second, new approach in photodetection could simplify free-space optical communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-detector-overcomes-key-challenge-in-using-light-for-wireless-communications-with-data-rates-of-more-than-2-gigabits-per-second-new-approach-in-photodetection-could-simplify-free-space-optical-co.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s high-speed wired communication networks use lasers to carry information through optical fibers, but wireless networks are currently based on radio frequencies or microwaves. In an advance that could one day make light-based wireless communications ubiquitous, researchers from Facebook Inc.\u2019s Connectivity Lab have demonstrated a conceptually new approach for detecting optical communication signals traveling through the air.<\/p>\n<p>The team described the new technology, which could pave the way for fast optical wireless networks capable of delivering internet service to far-flung places, in <em>Optica<\/em>, The Optical Society\u2019s journal for high impact research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bridging the Digital Divide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s Connectivity Lab develops technologies aimed at providing affordable internet services to the approximately 4 billion people in the world who cannot currently access it. \u201cA large fraction of people don\u2019t connect to the internet because the wireless communications infrastructure is not available were they live, mostly in very rural areas of the world,\u201d said Tobias Tiecke, who leads the research team. \u201cWe are developing communication technologies that are optimized for areas where people live far apart from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160719105404.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160719105404.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s high-speed wired communication networks use lasers to carry information through optical fibers, but wireless networks are currently based on radio frequencies or microwaves. In an advance that could one day make light-based wireless communications ubiquitous, researchers from Facebook Inc.\u2019s Connectivity Lab have demonstrated a conceptually new approach for detecting optical communication signals traveling through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28044","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50129,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28044\/revisions\/50129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}