New research on Li-Fi sees improvement utilizing lasers which could boost speed "easily beyond 100GB/s"

04/10/2015 - 00:00

By Neil Savage -

Struggling with spotty Wi-Fi? Li-Fi might be the answer. The technology uses LED-based room lighting instead of radio waves to transmit data. But one of the leading Li-Fi proponents is already looking beyond LEDs to laser-based lighting, which he says could bring a tenfold increase in data rates.

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Ref: Towards a 100 Gb/s visible light wireless access network. Optics Express, Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp. 1627-1637 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.001627