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ECOC 2016: Viavi Announces Initiatives to Advance 100G, 400G, Other High-Speed Optical Network Technologies

Viavi Solutions today announced several initiatives to advance 100G, 400G and other high-speed optical network technologies at ECOC 2016.

15 Sep 2016

Researchers Investigate Role of SDM Technologies to Unlock Full Potential of Optical Networking

In the face of increasing bandwidth demands, ground-breaking research between the University of Bristol and the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT) in Japan, has demonstrated solutions for network infrastructure to address the looming network capacity crunch.

15 Sep 2016

InGaAs Avalanche Photodiodes

LASER COMPONENTS is proud to produce the IAG series of Avalanche photodiodes - the largest commercially available InGaAs APD.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 14 Sep 2016

New Photline ModBox with Stressed Eye

LASER COMPONENTS offers the new Photline ModBox-OBand-28Gb/s-NRZ-SE and ModBox-850nm-28Gb/s-NRZ-SE which provide production and R&D engineers a solution for stressed eye receiver sensitivity testing in the O-Band and at 850nm.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 13 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

Self-Focused Laser Pulses Generate Optical Structures that Resemble Smoke Rings

Most basic physics textbooks describe laser light in fairly simple terms: a beam travels directly from one point to another and, unless it strikes a mirror or other reflective surface, will continue traveling along an arrow-straight path, gradually expanding in size due to the wave nature of light.

9 Sep 2016

International Fibre Link Allows Comparison of Optical Clocks Between UK and France

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), in collaboration with LPL (CNRS, Université Paris 13) and LNE-SYRTE (CNRS, Observatoire de Paris and UPMC), has established a fully-functional fibre link between optical clocks based in the UK and France.

9 Sep 2016

Semtech Releases Integrated Laser Driver and Limiting Amplifier for Asymmetric 10G PON Applications

Semtech Corporation, a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced the release of the GN28L95 integrated laser driver and limiting amplifier for asymmetric 10 gigabit PON applications, combining for the first time Semtechï¿½s unique automatic laser calibration technology with programmable 2.5 gigabit transmit and 10 gigabit receive signal paths.

7 Sep 2016

New Optical Material Could Potentially Transform Optoelectronic Technologies

Researchers led by Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, have found a new phase-transition optical material and demonstrated novel devices that dynamically manipulate light over a much wider wavelength range and with larger modulation amplitude than what was previously possible.

1 Sep 2016

Researchers Aim to Design, Build OpenVLC Platform for Various Visible Light Communication Systems

Visible Light Communication (VLC), sometimes also referred to as “Li-Fi”, uses standard off-the-shelf visible light LEDs to transmit data using the visible light spectrum.

10 Aug 2016