Although not one of my projects, the official launch of the Tyndall photonics lab yesterday is being covered in the media. Electric News have a decent write up of it.
Photonics is a growing field concerned with using light to transmit data through hair-thin fibres of very thin glass. A single fibre optic glass cable is able to carry the equivalent of 300,000,000 simultaneous phone calls. Advances in photonics should make way for transmission mediums capable of instantly delivering fully interactive multimedia internet services.
The Tyndall National Institute is named after John Tyndall (1820—1893), one of Ireland’s leading 19th century scientists.
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