24 Jul
2008
24 Jul
'08
10:11 a.m.
Scanning wrote:
It has to be done in hardware otherwise why bother. If
you want the respect
and awe of the group show us your gravitas and use a spool of fibre optic
cable as the "media" and blink your data in through an LED or LASER diode.
Storing 1 Mbit at 10 MHz in a spool of fiber would definitely inspire
awe of a sort, but perhaps not the kind you had in mind. You'll
definitely need lasers, not LEDs, and you'll have to splice an optical
amplifier into the spool for every few km of fiber. Just dealing with
the power consumption would be non-trivial. Got a substation next door?
Eric