We all want faster internet at home, we all expect waiting times and download times to be very short. Beyond that, higher speeds will be needed as technologies like supercomputers arrive. A newly developed chip will meet this need.
Asbjorn Arvad Jorgensen, from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen, managed to transfer 1.84 petabytes of data per second with the chip he developed. Thanks to this great speed, connecting and downloading data becomes much faster.
Processing data with light: Processing data at the speed of light
The researchers used a photonic chip in their study. Inside this microchip are two or more photonic components, and these components form a working circuit. Thanks to this circuit, it is able to detect and process data from a distance of 7.9 kilometers, create and process the necessary data.
First, the researchers divided the data into 37 different parts and sent each part from a different part of the fiber optic cable. Afterwards, he made each part into 223 data stacks and separated each data into different layers of the electromagnetic spectrum. Thus, data could be transferred without interference, with the existing fiber optic structure.
In fact, it is possible to reach higher speeds.
In fact, higher transfer speeds have also been possible in the past. For example, high speeds of 10.66 petabytes were seen, but there was a problem here. These advanced systems were quite expensive and, in fact, rather impractical. The new study, on the other hand, can form the infrastructure of a serious technological breakthrough.
The data processing power provided by the system is so high that since there was not enough data for research, scientists had to test the system using artificial data. Thus, the capacity of the chip could be fully tested. Because every second internet activity on our planet is roughly 1 petabyte.
Of course, this structure will go through serious work and studies such as encryption and security will be carried out. Let’s see what kind of breakthroughs this study will lead us to in the future.
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