Informatics Carnot Machine in an Optical Fiber

Oded KAFRI

Abstract


Abstract. Based on Planck's blackbody equation it argued that a single mode light pulse, with a large number of photons, carries one entropy unit. Similarly, an empty radiation mode carries no entropy. In this case, the calculated entropy that a coded sequence of light pulses is carrying is simply the Gibbs mixing entropy, which is identical to the logical Shannon information. This approach supported by a demonstration that information transmission and amplification, by a sequence of light pulses in an optical fiber, is a classic Carnot machine comprising of two isothermals and two adiabatic. Therefore, it concluded that entropy under certain conditions is information.

Keywords. Information theory, Second law.

JEL. C62.


Keywords


Information theory; Second law.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1453/jsas.v4i1.1161

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