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Using Light Instead of Wires to Send Information

IBM Researchers today unveiled a prototype technology that could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy efficient way to all kinds of machines -- from supercomputers to cell phones -- that could revolutionize the way people access, use and share information across many different applications.

29 Feb 2008

PureGain Protects Optical Networks From Hazards Associated With Power Transients

Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions enabling next-generation optical networks, today supplemented its OASIS EDFA portfolio by unveiling its compact power transient-suppressed EDFA at OFC/NFOEC 2008 Expo.

28 Feb 2008

Avanex Corporation Announces Shipments of Next-Generation TDC Products

Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions enabling next-generation optical networks, today announced commercial shipments of next-generation tunable dispersion compensation (TDC) products into major OEM customers for 40Gb/s applications.

28 Feb 2008

The PowerPort XFP Provide Cost-Effective Solutions for Transmission Networks

Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions that enable next-generation optical networks, today announced at OFC/NFOEC 2008 Expo the release of new 10G XFP transceivers suitable for 40km and 80km transmission applications in access and metropolitan networks.

28 Feb 2008

New Type of LED Could See Their Use as Light Sources for LCDs

A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student has developed a new type of LED that could allow for their widespread use as light sources for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) on everything from televisions and computers to cell phones and cameras.

28 Feb 2008

Breakthroughs in Optical Networking and Optoelectronic Components

Alcatel-Lucent today announced, in four post deadline papers accepted at the OFC/NFOEC conference in San Diego, California, new optical networking milestones, including a new optical transmission record and three novel new photonic integrated circuits.

28 Feb 2008

EMCORE Introduces New Line of Un-Cooled Coaxial DFB Lasers

EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, is announcing the introduction of a new line of un-cooled coaxial DFB lasers.

28 Feb 2008

Austria Company Providing Photonic Tumor Therapy to the Healthcare Market

Günther Hofmann, Chief Operating Officer of PHOTO DYNAMIC THERAPY LLC (PDT®), a Vienna, Austria based company providing their propriate PHOTONIC TUMOR THERAPY SYSTEM to the healthcare market as a clinical all-in service, is currently on the road show in the United States from the east to the west.

28 Feb 2008

FTTH Network Delivers Advanced Broadband Services to Local Residents

ECI Telecom, a global provider of networking infrastructure, today announced it has partnered with Fibra Networks AS, a Norwegian network builder and supplier of fiber optics, to build its first gigabit passive optical network (GPON) in Norway.

27 Feb 2008