Each laser can be used as a separate communications channel.
This is known as the testbed.
It could help countries struggling with demand on internet infrastructure.
Its really showing us that we need to be able to scale the capacity of our Internet connections.
He further added: Weve developed something that is scaleable to meet future needs.
It is truly exciting to see their capability in ultra-high bandwidth fibre optic telecommunications coming to fruition.
Micro-combs offer enormous promise for us to meet the worlds insatiable demand for bandwidth.
Initially, these would be attractive for ultra-high speed communications between data centres.
The results of the study werepublished in the journal Nature Communicationson Friday.
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