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Broadcom’s Integrated GPON HGU to Accelerate Higher Bandwidth Services in China

Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced a highly integrated gigabit passive optical network (GPON) Home Gateway Unit (HGU) to fuel a rapid transition to fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and higher bandwidth services in China. Learn how Broadcom innovation is enabling the Connected Life at home, at work, and on-the-go at Broadcom@CES.

11 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

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

Nanomechanical Dual-Core Optical Fibers Enhance Data Processing

Optical fibers –the backbone of the Internet–carry movies, messages, and music at the speed of light. But for all their efficiency, these ultrathin strands of pristine glass must connect to sluggish signal switches, routers, and buffers in order to transmit data. Hoping to do away with these information speed bumps, researchers have developed a new, dual-core optical fiber that can perform the same functions just by applying a miniscule amount of mechanical pressure.

From Optical Society Of America 20 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

Patented Sensor-Housings Offer Energy Savings, Function in Cold Winters

A made-in-Nova Scotia technology to allow for long-term automated monitoring of greenhouse gases is transforming the task into a practical process, even underground. Developed by Professor David Risk, of St. Francis Xavier University's (StFX) Department of Earth Sciences, the patented sensor-housings function throughout cold winters and without using much power—two significant benefits that competing technologies do not provide.

15 Dec 2012

OxySense Introduces a Breakthrough Invasive Optical Measurement Needle

OxySense Inc., the leader in optical and non-invasive oxygen measurement systems announced the new Sidewinder Invasive Measurement Needle.

6 Dec 2012

Fiber-Optic Equivalent of World's Smallest Wrench Created for Biological Research

Harnessing laser light's ability to gently push and pull microscopic particles, researchers have created the fiber-optic equivalent of the world's smallest wrench. This virtual tool can precisely twist and turn the tiniest of particles, from living cells and DNA to microscopic motors and dynamos used in biological and physical research.

4 Dec 2012

$New Diffraction Spectrometer Tunes Lasers with High Accuracy$

New Diffraction Spectrometer Tunes Lasers with High Accuracy

Every photon in a laser beam marches in lockstep, at an identical wavelength that depends on what the laser is used for – for example, infrared lasers that drive the optic fiber internet. For many applications, lasers need to be precisely tuned to those wavelengths, and the wavelength-measuring instruments can be more expensive than the lasers themselves.

4 Dec 2012

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