Fiber optic networks enhanced with liquid crystal technology

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-fiber-optic-networks-liquid-crystal.html#google_vignette

"optical switches with liquid crystal on silicon mirrors shrink data packets down to size so the network can carry more data, signals distributed across different fiber strands enabling flexibility... overcomes limited frequency range... cross-wiring signals from 8 input to 16 output channels increasing network capacity... fewer optical switches needed... grating enables 25 GHz, or approximately 0.2 nm spectral resolution, light frequency for data stream narrower in band by factor of 4, so data packets proportionally smaller"