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Sound Waves Used to Enhance Optical Communication

Sound waves can be used to create ultraminiature optical diodes; minute enough to fit onto a computer chip. This may develop future optical communications.

24 Jan 2018

More Powerful, Energy-Efficient Frequency Set to Become Vital Cyber Security Tool

A recently designed frequency comb built using a new technique might be a successful tool for data encryption.

15 Jan 2018

New System for Changing the Reactions of a Powerful Chemical Coupling Agent

It is possible for the manufacture of the integrated circuits and chips, used for daily electronic devices, to be made simpler, cheaper and safer by just being able to switch colored light on and off?

1 Dec 2017

Great Plains Communications Announces Completion of Seven-Mile Fiber Optic Cable Project

Great Plains Communications, the largest independent communications provider in the state of Nebraska, has completed a seven-mile fiber optic cable build to Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park near Orchard, Nebraska.

26 Oct 2017

Molybdenum Ditelluride Could be Used for On-Chip Optical Communication

In recent decades, a vast increase in computing performance has been achieved by squeezing more and more transistors into a tighter space on microchips.

24 Oct 2017

New Optical Switching System Paves Way for Next Generation Data-Center Networks

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: Hideyuki Tokuda, Ph.D.) has successfully demonstrated a world-record for switching capacity of 53.3 Tb/s for short-reach data-center networks.

9 Oct 2017

Nokia Technology to Help Idea Cellular Meet High Bandwidth Demand

Nokia will assist Idea Cellular in meeting the constantly growing bandwidth demand by deploying Nokia's 1830 Photonic Services Switch (PSS) based Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) solution.

28 Sep 2017

Synthesizing Light-Matter Quasi-Particles from Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

We can electrically synthesize light-matter quasi-particles in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Physicists and material scientists at Heidelberg University (Germany) and at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) applied light-emitting and exceptionally stable transistors to achieve strong light-matter coupling and generate exciton-polaritons.

25 Jul 2017

Researchers Develop Optical Fiber with Ability to Secure Inherent Characteristics of Light

Collaboration between researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and researchers from Finland has resulted in the development of an innovative kind of optical fiber with an exceptionally large core diameter as well as the ability to secure the coherent characteristics of light.

18 Jul 2017

Infinera Introduces Next-Generation Packet-Optical Platform for Cloud Scale Applications

Infinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, unveiled today the XTM II, a next generation packet-optical platform delivering rich Layer 0, Layer 1 and Layer 2 services with high density, low latency and low power consumption.

14 Jun 2017

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