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Twisted Light Wave May Add Capacity to Future Optical Communications Networks

At a time when communication networks are scrambling for ways to transmit more data over limited bandwidth, a type of twisted light wave is gaining new attention. Called an optical vortex or vortex beam, this complex beam resembles a corkscrew, with waves that rotate as they travel.

9 Jan 2013

Lightwave Logic Provides Comprehensive Year-End Update

Tom Zelibor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lightwave Logic, Inc., a technology company focused on the development of a Next Generation Non Linear Optical Polymer Materials Platform for applications in high speed fiber-optic data communications and optical computing, provided the following comprehensive year-end update to shareholders:

2 Jan 2013

Southampton Professor Knighted for Extensive Contributions to Photonics

Professor David Payne of the University of Southampton has been knighted in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for services to photonics, the science and application of light and electronics.

29 Dec 2012

Intel Presents Thunderbolt Certification to Sumitomo Electric for Optical Thunderbolt Cable

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has become the first company to receive Thunderbolt certification from Intel Corporation for the optical Thunderbolt cable and has started the mass production.

24 Dec 2012

Verizon Installs Fiber-Optic Cables between Critical Switching Offices Affected by Hurricane Sandy

Less than seven weeks after Hurricane Sandy, Verizon has finalized another important step in the transformation of the communications infrastructure of lower Manhattan by completing the installation of fiber-optic cables between the company's two critical central switching offices there and buildings put out of service by the storm surge.

21 Dec 2012

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

Alphion India Launches Small Form Factor GPON Optical Line Terminal Platform

Alphion® India Private Limited announced today the launch of the AOLT-4200, small-form factor, Optical Line Terminal (OLT) platform that specifically addresses rural broadband and mobile backhaul applications. Alphion® India is exhibiting its full range of GPON products at the India Telecom 2012 exhibition, in New Delhi, India, December 13th – 15th.

14 Dec 2012

Research Group Focuses on Development of Intelligent Radio-Over-Fiber Systems

Driven by the strong demand for high-definition video, digital health services, the Internet of Things, and virtual reality, broadband, ubiquitous and convergent information access has become the most important engine to drive the development of the modern information society.

1 Dec 2012

Researchers Explore Optical Data Transmission for Efficient Data Center Operation

Major data centres and supercomputers will soon be more cost and energy efficient, and at the same time will be even more powerful. Fraunhofer scientists and 17 partners from business and research in the European Union have set themselves this ambitious goal in the “PhoxTroT” project. The key is optical data transmission. Over the next four years, the project partners will be studying synergies between existing solutions as well as developing new technologies and strategies.

From Fraunhofer USA, Inc. 1 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