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SUMMARY:The Power of Light - Jonas Kaiser\, Part IB
DTSTART:20090210T183000Z
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CONTACT:John Wickerson
DESCRIPTION:Fiber Optics - Principles and Areas of Use\n\nModern computing
  heavily relies on networks to communicate between\nnodes all around the g
 lobe at the speed of light. It takes online a\ncouple of clicks to send a 
 huge amount of data to a distant location\nand we often take the service o
 f the network for granted and don't\ngive it another thought. What is actu
 ally going on behind the scenes\none may ask and this talk tries to give a
  pointer in the right\ndirection. The use of light as a carrier wave provi
 des us with the\nbandwidths we are accustomed to and Fiber Optics allows u
 s to direct the light beams to their destination. I will cover the modulat
 ion of\nlight\, the physical principles behind fiber optics\, and a short 
 note\non where this technique is used nowadays and how dependent we are up
 on it.
LOCATION:Club Room\, Churchill College
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