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Yes, 36 bits or even more I would think. It seems like they are suggesting that it's feasible to make fiber optics which transmit a picture with extremely low
by 20after4 9y ago
Yes, 36 bits or even more I would think.
It seems like they are suggesting that it's feasible to make fiber optics which transmit a picture with extremely low distortion. So a single fiber could carry an optical image instead of a serial bit stream while maintaining nearly perfect clarity.
So you could potentially encode a lot of data (I would think a lot more than 36 bits) into a 2D pattern (like a QR code, essentially) which would enable the transfer of large blocks of data in each frame of visual information.
Of course encoding & decoding the data would incur some overhead...
- orbital-decay 9y ago> It seems like they are suggesting that it's feasible to make fiber optics which transmit a picture with extremely low distortion. So a single fiber could carry an optical image instead of a serial bit stream while maintaining nearly perfect clarity. If this is the case, it could be useful in many fiber array imaging applications, not just data transmission. Endoscopy, special cameras like Huygens' DISR etc.
- dekhn 9y agothere is already research into transmitting optical images directly via single fibers that don't require this kind of lens.