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Riding the light towards new science

Nature Photonics volume 1, pages 133–135 (2007)Cite this article

A new Internet is emerging. One in which dedicated optical circuits allow researchers to connect to computers all over the world and interactively work with massive datasets in real time. The technology is opening up new avenues in science, and this is just the beginning.

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Figure 1: An OptIPortal tiled display wall.

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Figure 2: Global video conferencing by means of an OptIPortal.

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  1. Larry Smarr is at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California 92093, USA and the Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UCSD. lsmarr@soe.ucsd.edu,

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Smarr, L. Riding the light towards new science. Nature Photon 1, 133–135 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.6

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