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ARPA’s 100G Plans Globally Deployable Fiber-Optic-Equivalent Communications Backbone

Fiber optic cables provide the core backbone for military and civilian networks, enabling Internet, phone, video and other data to move at super-high speeds with virtually no degradation over long distances. In deployed environments, where a fiber optic backbone doesn’t exist, other communications modes are used resulting in reduced data-rate capacity for the warfighter.

18 Dec 2012

Patented Sensor-Housings Offer Energy Savings, Function in Cold Winters

A made-in-Nova Scotia technology to allow for long-term automated monitoring of greenhouse gases is transforming the task into a practical process, even underground. Developed by Professor David Risk, of St. Francis Xavier University's (StFX) Department of Earth Sciences, the patented sensor-housings function throughout cold winters and without using much power—two significant benefits that competing technologies do not provide.

15 Dec 2012

OxySense Introduces a Breakthrough Invasive Optical Measurement Needle

OxySense Inc., the leader in optical and non-invasive oxygen measurement systems announced the new Sidewinder Invasive Measurement Needle.

6 Dec 2012

Fiber-Optic Equivalent of World's Smallest Wrench Created for Biological Research

Harnessing laser light's ability to gently push and pull microscopic particles, researchers have created the fiber-optic equivalent of the world's smallest wrench. This virtual tool can precisely twist and turn the tiniest of particles, from living cells and DNA to microscopic motors and dynamos used in biological and physical research.

4 Dec 2012

$New Diffraction Spectrometer Tunes Lasers with High Accuracy$

New Diffraction Spectrometer Tunes Lasers with High Accuracy

Every photon in a laser beam marches in lockstep, at an identical wavelength that depends on what the laser is used for – for example, infrared lasers that drive the optic fiber internet. For many applications, lasers need to be precisely tuned to those wavelengths, and the wavelength-measuring instruments can be more expensive than the lasers themselves.

4 Dec 2012

Infinera-Nissho Showcase Value of 100 Gb/s Coherent Optical Technology in Leveraging DSF

Infinera, a leading provider of Digital Optical Networks, along with its Japanese partner, Nissho Electronics, announced today a successful demonstration of the Infinera DTN-X platform delivering 8 Terabits per second (Tb/s) capacity using production ready super-channels across 800 kms of ITU-T G.653 Dispersion Shifted Fiber (DSF).

From Infinera 28 Nov 2012

Optical Fiber Cable Market in China to Grow at 21.49% CAGR till 2015

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Optical Fiber Cable Market in China 2011-2015

22 Nov 2012

Fiber-Optic Device Delivers Precise Points of Light to Living Brain Tissue

A new tool for neuroscientists delivers a thousand pinpricks of light to a chunk of gray matter smaller than a sugar cube. The new fiber-optic device, created by biologists and engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, is the first tool that can deliver precise points of light to a 3-D section of living brain tissue. The work is a step forward for a relatively new but promising technique that uses gene therapy to turn individual brain cells on and off with light.

From Optical Society Of America 20 Nov 2012

CALIENT Introduces New API for OpenFlow on S320 Optical Circuit Switch

CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader for photonic switching technology, today announced a new application-programming interface (API) for OpenFlow on its S320 optical circuit switch.

14 Nov 2012

New Quantum Mass Fusion Splicer with Automatic and Real-Time Clamp Force Adjustments

Sumitomo Electric Lightwave, a major leader in the design and manufacturing of optical fiber and connectivity solutions, today announced the introduction of the Quantum Type-Q101-M12™ Dual-Heater Mass Fusion Splicer, the second splicer launched in its Quantum Splicer product line.

14 Nov 2012