...at room temperature!
The advance could remove a major bottleneck at fiberoptic routers, where light must be converted to an electrical signal and then back to light, which is costly and time-consuming. If incoming signal speeds could be modulated, routers could avoid this optical-electrical-optical swtich and dramatically increase throughput.
http://www.physorg.com/news6951.html
Let the coolness continue!
SNG