Completely New World Record Of 26 Terra Bits Per Second Data Files Transmittal Achieved

With video content utilizing ever more bandwidth, the necessity for faster data transmission rates has never been significantly greater.
At this moment a crew of scientists at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are claiming a world record in data transmission with the effective encoding of data files at a rate of 26 terrabits per sec. on a stand alone laser beam and sending it over a length of 50 km (31 miles).
The scientists say this is the largest data volume ever transferred on a laser beam and enables the transferral of 700 DVD’s worth of content in just one second.
With no electronic processing methods readily available for a data rate of 26 terabits per second, the team produced a new opto-electric data resolution approach. This course of action relies on entirely optical calculations to break down the first high data rate into reduced bit rates that can then be processed electrically.
The record-breaking data encoding also utilized the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme established on Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) mathematical routines that is normally put to use in mobile communications networks including digital TV and audio broadcasts.
Because energy is essential for the laser and a couple of process steps only, the team says the new procedure is not only exceptionally fast, but also very power efficient.
“Our result shows that physical limits are not yet exceeded even at extremely high data rates,” says Professor Jürg Leuthold, who led the KIT experiment. “A few years ago, data rates of 26 terabits per second were deemed utopian even for systems with many lasers and there would not have been any applications. With 26 terabits per second, it would have been possible to transmit up to 400 million telephone calls at the same time. Nobody needed this at that time. Today, the situation is different.”
The most current breakthrough follows on from the earlier high-speed data transmission record set by the KIT scientists in 2010, when they productively exceeded the data rate of 10 terabits (or 10,000 billion bits) per second.
The KIT experiment engaged companies and scientists from all across Europe, including members of the staff of Agilent and Micram Deutschland, Time-Bandwidth Switzerland, Finisar Israel, and the University of Southampton in Great Britain. The experiment is detailed in the journal Nature Photonics.
(Image: Gabi Zachmann)

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