sirhc wrote:Now there were some trademark things UBNT filed that looked like they were attempting to send DC power in the form of photons(light) across fiber then convert said light to DC on the far end but I know nothing about how that worked out for them? Seems like an expensive large heavy device to me?
That's a LOT of photons. A 50W laser can engrave steel. 50W in less than a mm^2? nah. pipe dream.