title: OPTICS: The Internet of Tomorrow.
abstract: The unsatiable demand for more bandwidth threatens to lead to the Internet's collapse. In his Perspective, Joiner explains that new optical technologies are the key to resolving both today's "last-mile" bottleneck and future intrasystem bottlenecks. At the core of the new technology lies the vertical cavity surface emitting laser.
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authors.lastname: Joiner