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Nokia and Industry Colleagues Seek Simplification of Optics Market to Accelerate 5G

Nokia, Ericsson, II-VI, Lumentum and Sumitomo Electric have today published a joint technical paper making the case for reducing the wide choice of Mobile Optical Pluggables (MOPA) used to connect cell sites to fiber networks.

9 Jun 2021

SEC Offers X-ray Systems for Inspecting Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Mobile Phones

X-ray inspection specialist, SEC Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has succeeded in developing automatic 3D CT systems for the inspection of batteries for electric vehicles and mobile phones.

7 Jun 2021

Metalenz Launches Orion™, the World’s Simplest, Most Compact Dot Pattern Projector

Metalenz Inc., the pioneer in metasurface design and commercialization, today unveiled the Orion™ product family, the world’s simplest, high performance dot projectors.

From Metalenz, Inc. 27 May 2021

Reflectionless Metasurface can Offer an Accessible Platform for Terahertz Flat Optics

Japanese researchers successfully tested reflectionless, highly refractive index metasurface that may eventually be used in practical applications to send, receive, and manipulate light and radio waves in the terahertz waveband (THz).

25 May 2021

Light and Ultrasonic Waves Combination in Silicon Chips Enables Better Signal Processing

Light waves largely govern the sustained growth of cellular and wireless data traffic. Microwave photonics can be defined as the field of technology that is devoted to the processing and distribution of electrical data signals through optical ways.

20 May 2021

Nokia Selected as Single Supplier for Swisscom's New Optical Transport Network

Nokia today announced it has been selected by Swisscom to transform the operator’s existing infrastructure to a fully automated and high capacity optical transport network.

11 May 2021

2D Microlaser Arrays can Power Compact Optical Systems

The field of photonics aims to transform all manner of electronic devices by storing and transmitting information in the form of light, rather than electricity.

7 May 2021

Researchers Develop Pure Silicon Multiplexer for Terahertz-Range Communications

A new multiplexer has now been created from pure silicon for terahertz-range communications in the 300-GHz band. The feat was achieved by a collaboration of scientists from Osaka University, Japan, and the University of Adelaide, Australia.

30 Apr 2021

Exploiting Non-Line-Of-Sight Links for Terahertz Signals to Enable Ultrafast Wireless Data Transmission

If a base station in a local area network tries to use a directional beam to transmit a signal to a user trying to connect to the network -- instead of using a wide area network broadcast, as base stations commonly do -- how does it know which direction to send the beam-

28 Apr 2021