Carbon Sciences Enters Deal for Graphene-based Optical Modulator

Carbon Sciences Inc. (OTC Pink:CABN) announced that it’s entered into an agreement with the University of California, Santa Barbara. Under the agreement, the parties will fund R&D for a new graphene-based optical modulator.
According to the company, the optical modulator is “a critical fiber optics component needed to help unclog the existing bottlenecks and enable ultrafast communication in data centers for Cloud computing.”
As quoted in the press release:

Fiber optics technology is the backbone of the Internet. With the observed and predicted explosive growth of Internet data — as a result of Cloud-based services such as Netflix, Facebook, Google and many more — the fundamental speed limits of current state-of-the-art fiber optic materials are being challenged.
For optical data to be transmitted through a fiber optic cable, light from a laser beam must be modulated, meaning changed or pulsed, to encode specific digital data. Otherwise, a constant beam of light doesn’t communicate anything. The faster the light beam can be modulated, the more data can be encoded and transmitted. One of the very important attributes of graphene is extreme high speed and tunable conductivity. Incidentally, changing the conductivity of graphene also changes its optical properties, which means light passing through it will also be changed accordingly to encode digital data. It is these fundamental features of graphene that our research program aims to exploit in developing an ultrafast, low cost, and low power, graphene-based optical modulator.

Bill Beifuss, CEO of Carbon Sciences, commented:

We are pleased to announce our agreement to fund a sponsored research program at UCSB, to develop a new graphene-based optical modulator. As one of the top research universities, UCSB is considered to be a global leader in bioengineering, chemical and computational engineering, materials science, nanotechnology and physics.

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