Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego have announced a new method to extend the range that laser light beams can travel in fiber-optic glass wires. The development “could double the capacity of fiber-optic circuits, potentially opening the way for networks to carry more data over long distances while significantly reducing their cost,” reports The New York Times. The researchers “predistort” the data transmitted via laser beams by creating a frequency comb using precise and evenly spaced signals in order to encode the data prior to sending. This reportedly helps the information travel more efficiently over great distances, one of the current challenges for networks that carry increasing amounts of data.