The new single-laser fiber-optic speed record was set using a technique called fast Fourier transform that pulses light at an incredibly high rate with data encoded in 325 distinct colors across the spectrum.

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One of his site's sponsors advertises a laser turntable "that will get every little nuance out of an analog record that's out there, " he said.

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Earlier this year a team at Lund University in Sweden used a laser with pulses measured in attoseconds (billion billionths of a second) to record an electron in motion.

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