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Highspeed Ultra-Fast Fibre Optic Switches

Highspeed fibre optic switches benefit from non-mechanical operation. They are based on electro-optic technology and are highly reliable with no moving parts and organic materials in the light path.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 28 Oct 2021

Study Identifies New Mechanism of Carbon Coating Degradation in Optical Fibers

A mechanism of degradation of carbon coating under extreme conditions has been discovered by Kazan Federal University and OFS.

20 Oct 2021

Optical Circuit Switches can Enhance Switching Performance in Datacenters

Hyper-scale cloud providers such as Microsoft offer services powered by voluminous datacenters that use hundreds of thousands of servers, whose performance relies deeply on the network quality between them.

18 Oct 2021

New Laser Could Help Study Exceptionally Fast or High-Power Light-Matter Interactions

A fiber-laser system has been integrated with the latest developments in multi-pass cells to design a laser with a special combination of few-cycle pulses at high pulse energy, average power and repetition rate and with stable carrier envelope phase (CEP) operation.

4 Oct 2021

New Fully Connected Entanglement-Based QSDC Network with 15 Users

Quantum communication has presented a revolutionary step in secure communication due to its high security of the quantum information, and many communication protocols have been proposed, such as the quantum secure direct communication protocol.

24 Sep 2021

New Compact, Advanced Amplifier to Increase Quality of Optical Communication

Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology demonstrated a distinct optical amplifier with the caliber to revolutionize both space and fiber communication.

22 Sep 2021

Study Unravels Spectroscopic Properties of Fluoroindate Glasses Doped with Erbium

The advent of mid-infrared lasers has been a boon to medical, military, and other fields. Fiber laser is one among them and has garnered wider interest. As the core material of mid-infrared fiber laser, laser glass has a great impact on advancing its performance.

23 Aug 2021

Scientists Experiment with Optical Fibers to Protect Spacecraft from Radiations

Spacecraft requires effective radiation monitoring systems to protect both the crew and electronics from radiation. The International Space Station (ISS), quite similar to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire or European Council for Nuclear Research), is a complicated radiation environment that needs customized dosimetry devices.

23 Aug 2021

Simple System can Generate Quantum-Secure Cryptographic Keys at Sustained Rates

In a new study, researchers demonstrate an automated, easy-to-operate quantum key distribution system using the fiber network in the city of Padua, Italy.

12 Aug 2021