The breakthrough will make way for faster downloads and improve in-flight internet connection speeds.
The scientists are developing a THz transmitter that will transmit data at over 10Gbps using 300GHz frequencies.
The 300GHz band is higher-up the spectrum than 5G is likely to use.
Terahertz could offer ultrahigh-speed links to satellites as well, which can only be wireless.
That could, in turn, significantly boost in-flight connection connection speeds, for example.
In trial tests conducted for 5G data speeds, they have easily reached over 3 Gbps to 50 Gbps.
This year, we developed a transmitter with 10 times higher transmission power than the previous versions.
This made the per-channel data rate above 100 Gbit per second at 300 GHz possible, said Fujishima.
We usually talk about wireless data rates in megabits per second or gigabits per second.
But we are now approaching terabits per second using a plain simple single communication channel, said Fujishima.
Fibre optics realised ultrahigh-speed wired links, and wireless links have been left far behind, he said.
Terahertz could offer ultrahigh-speed links to satellites as well, which can only be wireless.
That could, in turn, significantly boost in-flight online grid connection speeds, for example, Fujishima added.
Another, completely new possibility offered by terahertz wireless is high-data-rate minimum-latency communications, said Fujishima.
Optical fibres are made of glass and the speed of light slows down in fibres.
That makes fibre optics inadequate for applications requiring real-time responses, he said.
source: www.techworm.net
