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Optical Networks & Fibers
Coherent Announces Industry’s First L-band 800G ZR/ZR+ Pluggable Transceivers
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- New UCF Technology Could Reduce Lag, Improve Reliability of Online Gaming, Meetings
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Medical Engineering
Rockley Photonics unveils end-to-end digital health monitoring solution based on spectrophotometer-on-a-chip sensing module
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Displays
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Research
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