Plasmonic Modulators Can Break the Wireless Terahertz Barrier

 (spectrum.ieee.org)

17 points | by pseudolus 6 days ago

4 comments

  • LeoPanthera 2 days ago
    It's funny calling light "wireless".

    It's not wrong exactly. Light can be transmitted wirelessly. Optical cables aren't even usually called "wires". It just sounds odd.

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    • TheSpiceIsLife 2 days ago
      Wires aren't usually called wires either.

      Ethernet cable, figure eight cable, power cable, telephone cable, HDMI cable, audio cable, coaxial cable, optical cable.

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      • LeoPanthera 2 days ago
        This can vary locally. In Commonwealth countries those things are often called "wires", or even "flexes" if you're my age or older.
      • bobsmooth 2 days ago
        A cable is a collection of individual wires.
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        • droopyEyelids 2 days ago
          Like a battery is a collection of individual cells!
  • mjd 2 days ago
    But only when connected to a reframbulated flux motivator.
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    • MalbertKerman 2 days ago
      And aligned to a properly synchronized cardinal grammeter.
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      • m463 2 days ago
        Can you use a Langstrom 7-inch gangly wrench?
  • notarealllama 2 days ago
    Li-fi. This combined with ultrasonic and we'll be surrounded by non radio signals!
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    • noduerme 2 days ago
      As well as howling dogs, and bats crashing into things.
  • brcmthrowaway 1 day ago
    If you had an omnidirectional antenna being fed by a THZ carrier wave would it produce visible light in all directions? Why not?