There is an ever growing demand for high speed internet communication systems. New research has shown optical switching…

Global network traffic continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. The telecommunications industry is accelerating the deplo…

Researchers have just discovered a new type of light diffusion in tiny optical fibers 50 times thinner than a strand of…

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and the University of Central Florida in the USA, r…

Advanced Process CMOS Integrated Circuit with Enhanced Digital Coherent Processing Core Enables Smaller 100G Coherent Pluggable Optical Transceivers

The LP-DSP with less than 20W power dissipation enables smaller size second generation coherent 100G modules, including…

192xCC SDN-Enabled All-Optical switch with “any-to-any” connection capability provides a new level of flexibility that enables innovative datacentre and network architectures

Conventional all-optical switches are dual-sided, making connections between a group of committed input ports on one sid…

MPQ theorist proves that Gaussian encoding guarantees minimum output entropy and hence ultimate capacity of optical communication channels.

MPQ theorist proves that Gaussian encoding guarantees minimum output entropy and hence ultimate capacity of optical comm…

The work took nearly four years to complete and it opens a fundamentally new direction in photonics – with far-reaching…

Success in test of ultra-high-speed optical transmission up to distances of 10,000km

By implementing this technology in an optical transceiver, a quadrupling of optical transmissions was achieved while usi…

Fibercore, the UK based global market leader in the design and manufacture of specialty optical fiber today announced it…

A step toward the future integrated control of network between data centers

The volume of data transmitted within or outside data centers has dramatically increased with the spread of cloud busine…

A team of scientists from the University of Stuttgart, the Max-Planck-Institute of Solid State Research in Stuttgart, th…

New optical waveguides improve precision investigations in physics, chemistry and life sciences

Researchers have tested a new type of optical fibre with a hollow core and have found out that this type of optical fibr…

New technology for gas flow measurement sets temperature record of 800 degrees Celsius -- ideal for use in deep drilling operations, nuclear reactor cores and outer space

The basic concept of the new approach involves integrating optical heating elements, optical sensors, an energy delivery…

In order to transfer large amounts of data from one terminal device to another in next to no time and without an interfe…

Realization of higher density integration

Furukawa Electric has succeeded in reducing the chip size in next-generation silica-based optical waveguide circuits to…

Swinburne researchers have developed a high-quality continuous graphene oxide thin film that shows potential for ultrafa…

Single and multimode connectors provide high-performance, robust communication links for harsh aerospace and defense applications

The connectors work by utilizing lenses that expand and collimate the light emitting from optical fibers across a sealed…

New ways of monitoring fibre and copper networks will be key to keeping customers happy

UTEL have developed a new complete fibre network management system which includes a central office OTDR fibre test syste…

Researchers Exploit Optical Frequency Comb Sources on a Silicon Chip for Data Transmission in the Terabit Range

Miniaturized optical frequency comb sources allow for transmission of data streams of several terabits per second over h…