A new record for the fastest ever data rate for digital information has been set by UCL researchers in the Optical Netwo…

New research by the universities of Bristol, Keio and industrial partners have unlocked 80 THz of fibre-optic bandwidth…

Helps to reduce power consumption of radio access networks

The module, which comprises an electro-absorption modulator laser and a transmitter optical sub-assembly, reduces fluctu…

Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, report the ability to supply 60 watt power over a 300 m…

The research, which uses long-wave infrared wavelengths, adds critical information to the exploration of covert communic…

Anticipated to contribute to improved performance of distributed processing on servers at large-scale datacenters

The fiber-optic cables that are commonly used for inter-server optical communications suffer from a phenomenon called mo…

Promising Technology for Long-haul High-capacity Transmission Employing Single-mode Multi-core Fiber and Optical Frequency Comb Source

Promising Technology for Long-haul High-capacity Transmission Employing Single-mode Multi-core Fiber and Optical Frequen…

In the latest advance to boost the speed of the Internet, a research team including, the City College of New York, Unive…

Thorlabs announced today that it has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire Vytran from Denmark-b…

Scientists at the Fraunhofer IPMS developed a unique concept of on-chip integrated liquid crystal waveguides, which – wh…

Sensuron systems monitor materials in demanding engineering environments to encourage the sustainable development, operation and maintenance of equipment and enhance industry innovations.

Using existing techniques for monitoring equipment, engineers are struggling to keep up with industry developments. Howe…

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed a modulator that is a hundred times smaller than conventional models

Multimode optical fiber has a much larger core diameter than single-mode fiber, which simplifies connections and allows…

An industry leader in optical communications and commercial lasers, Lumentum will commence trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market on August 4, 2015

An industry leader in optical communications and commercial lasers, Lumentum will commence trading on the NASDAQ Stock M…

Component for Energy-efficient Optical Communication between Silicon Chips Presented in “Nature Photonics.“ / Micrometer-size Component fast Converts Electrical Signals into Optical Signals

Compact optical transmission possibilities are of great interest in faster and more energy-efficient data exchange betwe…

The 22S is designed for high-end FTTH splicer applications in FTTX, Data Centre

The breakthrough was made possible due to an improved understanding of fibre properties deriving from various new numeri…

Photonics researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found a way to increase the distance that informat…

Orange Transported 38.4 Terabits-per-Second over a Distance of 762 km

This full-scale multi-terabit transmission, which took place on the Orange optical fiber infrastructure of its operation…

Minimised radiation-induced increases in attenuation

High data rates are generally no problem for glass fibers, but unwanted radiation-induced attenuation occurs in the fibe…