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Surrey Satellite, BridgeSat Collaborate on Development of Free-Space Optical Communications System

Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC and BridgeSat Inc. are pleased to announce a partnership to work towards developing a free-space optical communications system that will provide secure data downlinks from satellites to a proprietary ground network at faster speeds than equivalent radio frequency solutions.

13 Apr 2016

Silicon Line Inaugurates High Tech Micro Optical Manufacturing Site in Belgium

Silicon Line NV, a fully owned subsidiary of Silicon Line GmbH, today announced the opening of the Company’s first High Tech Micro Optical manufacturing site at the Corda Campus (Hasselt, Belgium).

13 Apr 2016

Nokia's New Passive Optical LAN Solution Provides Cost Efficient Alternative to Traditional Ethernet LAN

Nokia today announced its Passive Optical LAN (POL) solution, giving operators and enterprises a faster, more cost-effective way to deploy local area networks (LAN) at a time when gigabit services, WiFi, the Cloud and high-bandwidth applications such as video streaming and file sharing are reshaping today's network needs.

6 Apr 2016

Lumentum to Showcase Advanced Products at Six Commercial Tradeshows Worldwide

Lumentum Holdings Inc. (“Lumentum”) announced it would exhibit at six optical communications and commercial lasers tradeshows worldwide in the next three months. Lumentum will be displaying numerous advanced products focused on addressing the laser micro-machining, laser macro-machining, telecom, enterprise, and data center markets.

5 Apr 2016

OFC 2016 Features Cosemi Technologies’ Photodiode, VCSEL and Optical Subassembly Solutions

This week at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), Cosemi Technologies Inc., a global supplier of high-speed optical semiconductor solutions, will be on hand to highlight its proven, field-tested lineup of photodiode, VCSEL and optical subassembly (OSA) solutions that address the high-speed bandwidth needs of data centers. OFC 2016 attendees can learn more by visiting Cosemi's product showcase at booth #3640 on the show floor at the Anaheim Convention Center.

29 Mar 2016

Sumitomo Electric Creates New Coupled Multi-Core Optical Fiber for Ultra-Long-Haul Transmission Systems

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has developed a new-type coupled multi-core optical fiber suitable for ultra-long-haul transmission, which has set new records of the low attenuation and the low spatial mode dispersion in the optical fibers for space division multiplexing.

28 Mar 2016

FiberPlex Technologies Installs New Fiber Optic Communications Equipment Onboard USS Nimitz

Network security has been battened down on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier (CVN 68), thanks in part to new fiber optic communications equipment by FiberPlex Technologies.

26 Mar 2016

OFC 2016: Huawei Unveils New Coherent CDMA Metro Optical Transmission Solution and Prototype

Huawei, a world leading information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has today launched a new coherent CDMA metro optical transmission solution and prototype at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2016.

26 Mar 2016

Latest Advancements in Optical Networking and Communications Featured in OFC 2016

This year’s OFC Conference and Exposition, held March 20-24 at the Anaheim Convention Center, featured 580 exhibiting companies, more than 1,160 peer- reviewed papers and exceeded 13,000 attendees, an increase from 2015. Mirroring a dynamic and growing industry, OFC continued its multi-year growth pattern with 10 percent growth in net square footage sold.

26 Mar 2016

Optical Society Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Fiber Optic Communications

In just a few decades, new optical technologies have transformed the way we communicate. This year we celebrate Sir Charles Kao, 2009 Physics Nobel Prize winner, who 50 years ago discovered that a laser beam traveling down a single strand of low-loss glass optical fiber, has the ability to transfer the entire contents of a 1TB hard drive in about 31 milliseconds.

26 Mar 2016