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Scientists Explore Ways to Achieve More Stable Propagation of Light for Future Optical Technologies

Devices based on light, rather than electrons, could revolutionize the speed and security of our future computers. However, one of the major challenges in today's physics is the design of photonic devices, able to transport and switch light through circuits in a stable way.

20 Sep 2016

Lumentum Launches New High-Port Count TrueFlex Micro Twin WSS for Optical Networking Applications

Lumentum Holdings Inc. has added an industry-first high-port count TrueFlex® Micro Twin WSS to its comprehensive portfolio of ROADM solutions for optical networking applications.

20 Sep 2016

Photonic Integrated Circuits – Faster Replacements for Electronic Circuits

Electronic integrated circuits used in smartphones and computers could soon be replaced by photonic integrated circuits that can make them both compact and faster.

20 Sep 2016

Luxtera Crosses 1M Milestone in Shipping Silicon Photonic Transceiver Products

Luxtera, Inc., the global leader in silicon photonics, today announced that the company has shipped more than one million Silicon Photonic Parallel Single Mode fiber 4-lane (PSM4) transceiver products.

19 Sep 2016

Inphi Announces Production Availability of New Quad Linear Drivers in Smaller SMT Package for High-Volume Applications

Inphi Corporation, a leader in high-speed data movement interconnects, today announced the production availability of a new product in its 32GBaud Linear Coherent Product Family.

19 Sep 2016

New Fiber-Optics Technology May Enhance Monitoring of Structural Health under Extreme Conditions

Structural health monitoring systems traditionally use piezoelectric transducers—a device which converts pressure to electric voltage.

16 Sep 2016

ADVA Optical Networking, Saguna Networks to Demonstrate New Mobile Enterprise Services Architecture at ETSI MEC PoC Zone

ADVA Optical Networking and Saguna Networks announced today that they will stage a joint demonstration with Bezeq International of a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) proof of concept (PoC) for enterprise services at MEC Congress.

16 Sep 2016

New Integrated Optofluidic Platform for Optical Analysis and Biological Sample Processing

Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt has been involved in the development of devices for optical testing of samples on integrated chip-based platforms for the last ten years, with the aim to use them in areas such as virus detection, biological sensors, and chemical analysis.

15 Sep 2016

TU Wien Scientists Find Way to Compress Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) found a way to compress ultrashort laser pulses, increasing its peak power to half a terawatt – which is equivalent to the output of hundreds of nuclear reactors.

14 Sep 2016

Lumentum to Display at Nine Optical Communications and Commercial Lasers Tradeshows Worldwide in Next Three Months

Lumentum Holdings Inc. (“Lumentum”) announced it would exhibit at nine optical communications and commercial lasers tradeshows worldwide in the next three months.

13 Sep 2016

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