Hamamatsu Photonics has announced the development of the P16548-01AT, an optical transceiver for spatial light transmission, enabling cable-free optical data communication.

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration broke another record for laser communications this summer by sending a laser signal from Earth to NASA’s Psyche spacecraft about 290 ...

Almost 80,000 people will be connected with 10-gigabit fibre connectivity in the Ruhr area of Germany, thanks to a partnership between Westconnect and Slovenia’s Kontron. Based on Slovenia’s Kontron ...

NEC and NTT have devised a connection configuration to add optical fibre sensing functions to the IOWN All-Photonics Network (APN). By applying this configuration to multiple routes of optical fibre ...

In his plenary keynote at OFC, David Richardson, Partner Researcher at Microsoft, reviewed the progress in emerging transmission fibre technologies and discussed where they might prove most disruptive ...

The companies say that the demonstration showcases a proven interoperable multi-vendor ecosystem for high performance optical transmission that is a new direction for the optical communications ...

The research team achieved this speed thanks to the development of optical amplifiers and optical gain equalisers that can open up specific new wavelength bands that are not yet used in fibre optic ...

In what will probably always be remembered as the period of ‘calm before the storm,’ 2020 started very much where 2019 left off in terms of a significant trend for mergers and acquisitions. This is by ...

EXA Infrastructure’s Ciaran Delaney discusses the challenges faced by international network operators and how Exa plans to help its customers overcome these challenges Stay at the forefront of the ...

The 2Africa is one of the world’s largest subsea cable projects, interconnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa. Pictured here is the cable system landing in the UK (Credit: European Subsea Cables ...

Eight companies have come together to build 2Africa, a subsea cable designed to serve the African continent and Middle East region. The cable will also connect via east Africa with other subsea cables ...

At this year’s ECOC conference, photonics companies showcased advanced technologies, including thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) and glass-based quantum photonic chips, to address the rising data ...