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Shattering the 'copper or optics' paradigm: humble plastic waveguides outperform
- westurner 3y ago> Point2’s E-Tube provides a low-cost, low-loss broadband dielectric waveguide solution that could serve as an advanced alternative to existing electrical and optical interconnects in high-speed, short-reach communication links. It’s 80% lighter and 50% less bulky than copper cables, and could reduce power consumption and the cost of optical cables by 50%, with picosecond latencies that are three orders of magnitude better.
- westurner 3y agoTerahertz quantum resonators currently have a maximum transmission distance of a hundred micrometers: - "Coherent Interaction of a Few-Electron Quantum Dot with a THz Optical Resonator" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365579