{"podcast":{"title":"Rays and Waves","slug":"rays-and-waves-7177942","podcast_index_feed_id":7177942,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fc7e32e8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raysandwaves","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42261290/42261290-1729282406342-e61660056e2f4.jpg","author":"Rays and Waves","episode_count":16,"summary":"Rays and Waves, a passion project of two optical engineers, Daniel and Steve, who moonlight as podcast hosts. Join them as they explore the beautiful world of optics and photonics. The topics will span across the whole optical universe, demonstrating the versatile applications of optical engineering and sometime feature prominent characters from the community. Ready to dive into the captivating world of photonics?","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942"},"episode":{"title":"Optical Communication - Ep 1 - Rays and Waves","slug":"optical-communication-ep-1-rays-and-waves","published_at":"2025-01-17T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942/optical-communication-ep-1-rays-and-waves","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raysandwaves/episodes/Optical-Communication---Ep-1---Rays-and-Waves-e2t35s9","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fc7e32e8/podcast/play/96621897/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-3-20%2F6ce619e9-351e-0ab4-094f-13105e5aebb8.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Rays and Waves we speak about Optical Communication. Join Daniel and Steve as they explore how information transfer through hair-thin glass fibres are changing the world. While data rates have grown by over 10 billion times since the first commercial systems we are still signalling the fall of Troy with fire beacons by blinking lights on and off, only mind-numbingly fast! If you like the show, tell your friends about it! And like, subscribe, and all that! If you want to get in touch, shoot us an email on rays.and.waves.podcast@gmail.com Intro music is Good Vibe by Twisterium. Thanks for making sweet music!","meta_description":"In this episode of Rays and Waves we speak about Optical Communication. Join Daniel and Steve as they explore how information transfer through hair-thin g…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2518,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rays-and-waves-7177942/episodes/optical-communication-ep-1-rays-and-waves/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942/optical-communication-ep-1-rays-and-waves.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}