Plasmonic Modulators Can Break the Wireless Terahertz Barrier

It's funny calling light "wireless".

It's not wrong exactly. Light can be transmitted wirelessly. Optical cables aren't even usually called "wires". It just sounds odd.

TheSpiceIsLife · 5 months ago

Wires aren't usually called wires either.

Ethernet cable, figure eight cable, power cable, telephone cable, HDMI cable, audio cable, coaxial cable, optical cable.

LeoPanthera · 5 months ago

This can vary locally. In Commonwealth countries those things are often called "wires", or even "flexes" if you're my age or older.

bobsmooth · 5 months ago

A cable is a collection of individual wires.

mjd · 5 months ago

But only when connected to a reframbulated flux motivator.

MalbertKerman · 5 months ago

And aligned to a properly synchronized cardinal grammeter.

m463 · 5 months ago

Can you use a Langstrom 7-inch gangly wrench?

brcmthrowaway · 5 months ago

If you had an omnidirectional antenna being fed by a THZ carrier wave would it produce visible light in all directions? Why not?

notarealllama · 5 months ago

Li-fi. This combined with ultrasonic and we'll be surrounded by non radio signals!

noduerme · 5 months ago

As well as howling dogs, and bats crashing into things.