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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

Soliton Frequency Combs Produced in Optical Microresonators Allow Data Transmission at Record-High Speed

A new record for optical data transmission has been set by Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

9 Jun 2017

Sterlite Tech Unveils New Optical Communication Technologies at ANGA COM 2017

Sterlite Tech, an end-to- end global technology leader in smarter digital networks, unveiled new optical communication technologies and integrated capabilities in designing, building and managing smarter digital networks at ANGA COM 2017.

2 Jun 2017

Scientists Develop New Technology to Secure Information by Introducing Chaos

A research aimed at controlling complex dynamics, such as chaos, of optical nonlinearities with optomechanical crystals and by altering the excitation laser’s parameters has been reported by scientists from Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia’s (ICN2) Phononic and Photonic Nanostructures (P2N) Group, from the UAB.

19 Apr 2017