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Changing fiber optics communications forever: Florida Tech professor quadruples amount of information carried on a single cable.(Florida Institute of Technology)
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October 15, 2003
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Dr. Syed Murshid's eyes light up as he flips the switches, one, two, three and four. As the Florida Tech associate professor of electrical engineering uses his optics projector, pulses of red light project onto a wall. With each click, a new concentric circle appears. The circles represent a sea change in information technology. When he's finished, a red glowing bull's-eye shines brightly, and Murshid laughs.
"The future of fiber optics is right on target," he says.
Indeed, if the future of communications can be found in the tiny glass strand of a fiber optics cable, then Murshid's patented discovery may change the future.
"Fiber optics has always enchanted me," ...
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