Mark Lawrence
Foundation
Mark Lawrence
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
"By minimizing the energy wasted on steering, we can exploit the flexibility to make optical data travel the path consuming the least amount of time and energy."
Summary
Through access to increased spatial bandwidth, free-space optical communication not only promises to provide a path to coping with the ever-increasing internet traffic flowing through data centers, but it also offers potential for supporting global equity by providing broadband internet access to remote or under-developed regions and providing higher cloud connectivity to consumer electronic devices.
But despite these possibilities, today’s technology lacks the efficiency and speed necessary to make the concept a reality. But Mark Lawrence and his team at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., USA, aim to change that, having devised a solution in nanotechnology-based pixels.
Latest News
Lawrence wins $100,000 grant from Optica Foundation (The Record)Research Developments
- 6-Month Update (COMING SOON)
- Proposal Executive Summary: Fast, low-power, and high-resolution meta-reflect-arrays for massive space-division-multiplexing
