Plasmonic Modulators Can Break the Wireless Terahertz Barrier (spectrum.ieee.org)

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It's funny calling light "wireless".

It's not wrong exactly. Light can be transmitted wirelessly. Optical cables aren't even usually called "wires". It just sounds odd.

Wires aren't usually called wires either.

Ethernet cable, figure eight cable, power cable, telephone cable, HDMI cable, audio cable, coaxial cable, optical cable.

This can vary locally. In Commonwealth countries those things are often called "wires", or even "flexes" if you're my age or older.

A cable is a collection of individual wires.

Like a battery is a collection of individual cells!

Li-fi. This combined with ultrasonic and we'll be surrounded by non radio signals!

As well as howling dogs, and bats crashing into things.

mjd 1y ago ↗

But only when connected to a reframbulated flux motivator.

And aligned to a properly synchronized cardinal grammeter.

m463 1y ago ↗

Can you use a Langstrom 7-inch gangly wrench?

If you had an omnidirectional antenna being fed by a THZ carrier wave would it produce visible light in all directions? Why not?