whats the most data a laser can carry?

stupid question

but whats the most a laser can carry? been looking on google an cant find anything. 1000MBPS?

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[edit on 16-6-2007 by sanctum]

It probably has more to do with the medium it is reading/writing. I.e., the composition of the disk material. I think the disk material is the limiting factor there.

Thats why you can buy really expensive disks that record at X times normal speed. The cheaper the disk, the smaller the data transfer rate.

I don't know all of this for certain, but it seems logical.

Also, are you talking about the "standard" optical laser, or like blue-ray?

Also, the laser size would tend to affect data transfer rates, imo. As well as the material used to make the laser.

So, it's not a simple answer. Unless you have a specific laser/medium combination in mind.


Perhaps you might get a better response in the Science & Technology forum....

[edit on 6/16/2007 by Mechanic 32]

done it

i was talking about laser data transfer from long distances



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Originally posted by bodrul
done it

i was talking about laser data transfer from long distances



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my bad.

Nevermind then.


Still the Science & Technology forum may yield better answers for your query.

Found this in wikipedia:

Through a combination of advances in dispersion management, wavelength-division multiplexing, and optical amplifiers, modern-day optical fibers can carry information at around 14 Terabits per second over 160 kilometers of fiber

en.wikipedia.org...

So that's significantly higher than your guess of 1Gbps. And that's what's just is in use now, I imagine the theoretical amount to be almost limitless. The controlling factor would be the speed of the technology to encode and decode the data, not the ability of light to carry it.

Hope that helps.

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