14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that the field of cooling research is not the only one that reached a milestone, as a certain team of scientists claims to have created a new laser diode with the potential to enable high-speed data transmissions applicable in many areas.
Laser diodes are used in many pieces of hardware nowadays, like peripherals, consumer electronics, laser pointers and other things.
Since they have such wide applicability, it stands to reason that any advancement in this field will be welcomed with open arms.
That said, a team of researchers form the University of Central Florida built a miniature laser diode which can emit a beam of light that is more intense than what the market has seen so far.
It also uses no non-semiconductor materials, so it should be usable for heavy data transmission that will act as the building block for a new age of Internet.
In other words, unlike existing diodes of this type, the new laser devices won't succumb under heavy workloads, meaning that, once they are integrated into cables, massive amounts of data will almost instantaneously be possible to move over great distances.
There is just one final thing that the team, led by professor Dennis Deppe, has to accomplish, and that is to optimize the voltage and efficiency.
"The new laser diodes represent a sharp departure from past commercial devices in how they are made," said Deppe from his lab inside the College of Optics and Photonics.
"The new devices show almost no change in operation under stress conditions that cause commercial devices to rapidly fail."
"At the speed at which the industry is moving, I wouldn't be surprised if in four to five years, when you go to Best Buy to buy cables for all your electronics, you'll be selecting cables with laser diodes embedded in them.”