{"id":88629,"date":"2019-03-13T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/dont-adjust-your-sets-new-research-could-revolutionise-fiber-optic-communications"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:50:25","slug":"dont-adjust-your-sets-new-research-could-revolutionise-fiber-optic-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/dont-adjust-your-sets-new-research-could-revolutionise-fiber-optic-communications","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t adjust your sets \u2013 new research could revolutionise fiber-optic communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dont-adjust-your-sets-new-research-could-revolutionise-fiber-optic-communications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the University of St Andrews (St Andrews, Scotland) has achieved a breakthrough in the measurement of lasers that they say could revolutionize the future of fiber-optic communications. They also say the wavelength meter (or wavemeter) will boost optical and quantum sensing technology, enhance the performance of next-generation sensors, and expand the information-carrying capacity of fiber-optic networks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A team of researchers from the University of St Andrews has achieved a breakthrough in the measurement of lasers which could revolutionise the future of fiber-optic communications.<\/p>\n<p>The new research, published in <em>Optics Letters<\/em> (Wednesday 6 March), reveals the team of scientists has developed a low-cost and highly-sensitive device capable of measuring the wavelength of light with unprecedented accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>The wavemeter development will boost optical and quantum sensing technology, enhancing the performance of next generation sensors and the information-carrying capacity of fiber-optic communications networks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.st-andrews.ac.uk\/archive\/dont-adjust-your-sets-new-research-could-revolutionise-fiber-optic-communications\/\">https:\/\/news.st-andrews.ac.uk\/archive\/dont-adjust-your-sets-...nications\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from the University of St Andrews (St Andrews, Scotland) has achieved a breakthrough in the measurement of lasers that they say could revolutionize the future of fiber-optic communications. They also say the wavelength meter (or wavemeter) will boost optical and quantum sensing technology, enhance the performance of next-generation sensors, and expand [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88629","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}