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Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

Has Intel solved the problems that have kept fibre-optic connections out of our hands for years? Read more

5 August, 2010 by Mary Branscombe
Health Care Industry Markets and Charts 3.0

Health Care Industry Markets and Charts 3.0

...sunglasses""Production of lasers, other than laser diodes""Production of optical fibbers, optical fibre bundles and cables excluding optical fibre cables, made up of individually... Read more

6 May, 2012
Programmable Logic Controller Based Fibre Bragg Grating In-Ground Intrusion Detection System

Programmable Logic Controller Based Fibre Bragg Grating In-Ground Intrusion Detection System

...present an in-ground intrusion detection system for security applications. Here, an optical fibre pressure switch is directly connected to a standard digital input of... Read more

11 December, 2011
Spectrum Management in Cellular Network Using Cognitive ROF

Spectrum Management in Cellular Network Using Cognitive ROF

...communication technique based on the transmission of standard wireless radio signals though optical Fibre in their native format. The optical fibre provides a huge bandwidth... Read more

1 August, 2011
Performance Improvement of the Tracking System of a Satellite Laser Communication

Performance Improvement of the Tracking System of a Satellite Laser Communication

...The technology is useful where the physical connections by the means of optical fibre cables are impractical to use due to high costs or other... Read more

30 July, 2011
Our Scientists - Communication 1.0

Our Scientists - Communication 1.0

Revolutionary ideas can change the world! When a scientist proposed to use optical fibre to transmit messages some 40 years ago, his revolutionary idea was... Read more

20 March, 2011
Enhancing Performance of Optical Communication Systems With Advanced Optical Signal Processing

Enhancing Performance of Optical Communication Systems With Advanced Optical Signal Processing

...single WDM channel thus offering tremendous aggregate data throughputs over a single optical fibre. As a consequence, new bottlenecks have emerged at the fibre endpoints... Read more

1 November, 2010
Investigation of FWM Effect on BER in WDM Optical Communication System With Binary and Duobinary Modulation Format

Investigation of FWM Effect on BER in WDM Optical Communication System With Binary and Duobinary Modulation Format

...25GHz channel spacing. At these spacing, the non-linear effects of the optical fibre can induce serious system impairments and modulation schemes are now being... Read more

1 November, 2010
The Influence of High First-Order Polarization Mode Dispersion Sections on Optical Network System Performance

The Influence of High First-Order Polarization Mode Dispersion Sections on Optical Network System Performance

...known to increase the overall First-Order PMD (FO-PMD) of an optical fibre link. Replacement of the HiFO-PMD regions with low-PMD fibres... Read more

30 June, 2010

Special optical fibre preserves spatial entanglement

...shown that it is possible to send spatially entangled photons down an optical fibre and maintain the entanglement. The trick is to have the right... Read more

3 July, 2011
Internet freedom: world's strictest regimes

Internet freedom: world's strictest regimes

...internet network, they also risk five years in jail. A planned underwater optical fibre cable linking Cuba to Venezuela is expected to go into operation... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Staff

First demo of quantum switching network claimed

...nodes installed in two separate labs, connected by a 60-metre long optical fibre. This sounds straightforward enough, but is more impressive when you in... Read more

17 April, 2012

Researchers demo 512Gbps over single fibre channel

...Deutsche Telekom's research wing has successfully transmitted data over a single optical fibre wavelength at 512Gbps, the company has announced. Researchers at Deutsche Telekom... Read more

5 March, 2012 by David Meyer

CERN neutrino shock may be down to faulty connector

...time of flight," CERN said in a statement. "The second concerns the optical fibre connector that brings the external GPS signal to the OPERA master... Read more

23 February, 2012

New tool for in-depth SAN management

...The hardware probe sits alongside a traffic access point, which splits the optical Fibre Channel signal and diverts some of it to an analyser. You... Read more

22 September, 2011

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