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Reversible data transfers from light to sound

12-13-2007 · EurekAlert!

As a step towards designing tomorrow's super-fast optical communications networks, a Duke University-led research team has demonstrated a way to transfer encoded information from a laser beam to sound waves and then back to light waves again.

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