500 Megabits/Second with White LED Light
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Author: LIGHTimes News Staff

January 28, 2010... Researchers with Siemens (the company that owns Osram) have reportedly improved on their own record for wireless data transfer using white LED light. In collaboration with the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin, they have achieved a data transfer rate of up to 500 megabits per second (Mbit/s), more than doubling the the previous record of 200 Mbit/s. The company says that wireless data transport using light paves the way for new applications in the home as well as in industry and transportation.

The researchers from Siemens Corporate Technology department in Munich used a white light-emitting diode produced by the Siemens subsidiary Osram, and succeeded in transmitting data over a distance of up to five meters of empty space. Siemens News Release

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