Optical technologies have revolutionized long-distance communications, replacing low-capacity copper wiring that carries electrical signals with combinations of lasers and fiber-optic cabling that send information over many high-speed channels.

WSJ: IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips

Companies that make the guts of fiber-optic systems: lasers, filters, amplifiers and multiplexers.

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Whenever any of my Anytown subscribers want to transfer files amongst themselves, the operating cost to me approaches zero because (aside from the capital costs of building the network), the cost of transfering those files is basically the electricity it takes to pulse lasers over the fiber and keep the fans on the routers humming.

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Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.

NPR: Einstein: Relatively Speaking, a Complicated Life

He uses an improbable combination of green algae, blue lasers, gene therapy and fiber optics to map neural circuits deep inside the brain with a precision that has never been possible before.

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Terabeam's lasers can race along at speeds as fast as fiber optic cable.

CNN: Terabeam aims to solve 'last mile' data jam

Every long stretch of fiber, especially if it lies on the ocean floor, needs these lasers by the thousands.

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