In recent years, networks of fiber-optic cable have been replacing electrical wire for transmitting telecommunications signals.

近年来，光纤网络已经取代了传输电信信号的电线。

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Strano's team built, for the first time, a fiber made of two layers of nanotubes with different electrical properties — specifically, different bandgaps.

斯特拉诺小组首次在光伏组件中植入了两层具有不同电特性的纳米管结构的纤维——这些纤维具有不同的特性和禁带结构。

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Electronic data piped into one chip is converted into laser light that travels down an optical fiber and is transferred back into electrical signals a few fractions of a second later.

电子信号进入集成电路后被转换成激光，由光纤传出，在不到1秒的短时间后重新被转换成电子信号。

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Silicon photonics is a new approach to using light (photons) to move huge amounts of data at very high speeds with extremely low power over a thin optical fiber rather than using electrical signals over a copper cable.

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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.

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Its 25 people include a PhD in Electrical Engineering who is an expert on fiber optics, an aerospace engineer, and a computer scientist with a string of entrepreneurial successes in his wake.

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