Engineers create photonic switch that overcomes routing size–speed tradeoffs

Some of the equipment used by the Feng Group for transmitting light. Credit: Bella Ciervo Every second, terabytes of data—the equivalent of downloading thousands upon thousands of movies at once—travel around the world as light in fiber-optic cables, like so many cars packed onto a super-fast highway. When that information …

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