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Lumentum Launches New High-Port Count TrueFlex Micro Twin WSS for Optical Networking Applications

Lumentum Holdings Inc. has added an industry-first high-port count TrueFlex® Micro Twin WSS to its comprehensive portfolio of ROADM solutions for optical networking applications.

20 Sep 2016

Photonic Integrated Circuits – Faster Replacements for Electronic Circuits

Electronic integrated circuits used in smartphones and computers could soon be replaced by photonic integrated circuits that can make them both compact and faster.

20 Sep 2016

Acacia Communications Announces Customer Adoption of Denali-Based Products for Optical Networks

Acacia Communications, a leading provider of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products, today announced that more than 12 of its customers have adopted coherent solutions based on Acacia's Dual-Core Flex-Rate Denali digital signal processor (DSP) for applications in datacenter interconnect (DCI), metro, long haul and submarine networks.

19 Sep 2016

ADVA Optical Networking, Saguna Networks to Demonstrate New Mobile Enterprise Services Architecture at ETSI MEC PoC Zone

ADVA Optical Networking and Saguna Networks announced today that they will stage a joint demonstration with Bezeq International of a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) proof of concept (PoC) for enterprise services at MEC Congress.

16 Sep 2016

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