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Science 8 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5498, pp. 1907 - 1908
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5498.1907
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Perspectives

OPTICS:
The Internet of Tomorrow

Steve Joiner

The unsatiable demand for more bandwidth threatens to lead to the Internet's collapse. In his Perspective, Joiner explains that new optical technologies are the key to resolving both today's "last-mile" bottleneck and future intrasystem bottlenecks. At the core of the new technology lies the vertical cavity surface emitting laser.

The author is with Agilent Laboratories, 3500 Deer Creek Road, MS 26M, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: steve_joiner{at}agilent.com

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