A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Trading Towers

Re:A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Tradi... by jmole on Sunday March 10, 2019 @06:09PM (#19354926)

the index of refraction of a material is essentially a ratio to the speed of light in the material, where free space is 1. Glass, being around 1.5, has a lower speed of light.

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Re:A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Tradi... by lukateake on Sunday March 10, 2019 @06:13PM (#19354963)

So that's why my diamond optic cables never achieved product-market fit! http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Tables/indrf.html

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Re:A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Tradi... by hyeonwho4 on Sunday March 10, 2019 @06:36PM (#19355120)

That, and how the fick do you machine diamond... regular glass fiber optics needs to be cut to a smooth surface and fused together. The devices to do this use diamond-coated blades.

Oh, and diamond has a large birefringence due to its crystal structure, which would cause temporal smear in signals.

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