bludragon Wrote: > optical vs coax: > > http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/audioprinciples/interconnects/toslink.php > > Strange that they spec toslink at such a low bandwidth (5-10 MHz) - I > suspect, as I've read elsewhere too, that it would be the > emitter/detector pair that imposes such a low bandwidth. The upper > limit of bandwith for the optical cable itself is, of course, the > frequency of the light (10^14 Hz), but there are other factors, like > the way light bounces around in the cable, smearing the pulse edges: > > http://www.commspecial.com/fiberguide-print.htm > > Still, it's measured in MHz/km! And the lower limit they quote is a > few MHz per km. Given that toslink cables are a lot shorter than a km, > even the worst cable, I would think, would handle very high frequencies > (around 1GHz?).
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