Optical fibres carry light signals at extremely high frequencies, and offer enormous bandwidth for transmitting data. But nonlinear effects may limit their capacity to carry information.
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Kahn, J., Ho, KP. A bottleneck for optical fibres. Nature 411, 1007–1009 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35082671
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