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Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

Intel Light Peak: a tech guide

...obsolete as soon as next year, when Intel's 10Gbps Light Peak optical cables arrive. In time, a whole new protocol will deliver up to... Read more

5 August, 2010 by Mary Branscombe

Alcatel-Lucent unveils 100Gbps optical-networking tech

...Lucent on Wednesday said that it will launch the first commercially available optical networking technology that can carry 100Gbps on a wavelength. The company said... Read more

10 June, 2010 by Larry Dignan

Absorbing physics reverses laser

...reverse laser, suggesting that the technology could be used in next-generation optical communications and computing. In a paper entitled Time-Reversed Lasing and Interferometric... Read more

18 February, 2011 by David Meyer

Intel shows off ultra-fast silicon optical network

...same dies during chip fabrication. "It's about bringing silicon manufacturing to optical communications, bringing Moore's Law to high-bandwidth communications for every computing... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Nasa develops laser space communications

...Nasa will develop an optical laser communications system that should speed space communications by up to one... Read more

24 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Bell Labs throws open the doors to its research

Bell Labs throws open the doors to its research

This prototype optical coupling, which is the interface between the fibre-optic cable and the... Read more

3 June, 2010 by David Meyer
Estimation of Homodyne Crosstalk in <endeca_term>Optical</endeca_term> Network

Estimation of Homodyne Crosstalk in Optical Network

The aim of this paper is to carry out an analysis of optical network by calculating Bit Error Rate (BER) as a function of signal... Read more

2 April, 2012
Toward Green Next-Generation Passive <endeca_term>Optical</endeca_term> Networks

Toward Green Next-Generation Passive Optical Networks

Energy saving in telecom networks in general and in optical IP networks in particular has been a growing field of research. Next... Read more

1 November, 2011
Experimental Demonstration of CO-OFDM <endeca_term>Optical</endeca_term> Network With Heterogeneous ROADM Nodes and Variable Channel Bit-Rates

Experimental Demonstration of CO-OFDM Optical Network With Heterogeneous ROADM Nodes and Variable Channel Bit-Rates

The authors experimentally demonstrate a CO-OFDM optical network employing two types of ROADMs that take advantage of coherent-detection... Read more

1 August, 2011
Reduction of Blocking Probability in Shared Protected <endeca_term>Optical</endeca_term> Network

Reduction of Blocking Probability in Shared Protected Optical Network

...the authors have proposed a restricted shared protection scheme in wavelength convertible optical network. In their proposed approach, they have included both alternate path routing... Read more

1 August, 2011
Sparse Power Equalization Placement for Limiting Jamming Attack Propagation in Transparent <endeca_term>Optical</endeca_term> Networks

Sparse Power Equalization Placement for Limiting Jamming Attack Propagation in Transparent Optical Networks

...Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology are making it possible to build all-optical transparent WDM networks, which are expected to be able to satisfy the... Read more

6 July, 2011
Dimensioning the Future Pan-European <endeca_term>Optical</endeca_term> Network With Energy Efficiency Considerations

Dimensioning the Future Pan-European Optical Network With Energy Efficiency Considerations

This paper studies the overall energy consumption of a pan-European optical transport network for three different time periods: today and in five and... Read more

1 April, 2011
<endeca_term>Optical</endeca_term> Networking for Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Communications

Optical Networking for Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Communications

Modern optical networking techniques have the potential to greatly extend the applicability of quantum... Read more

9 March, 2011
S2U: An Efficient Algorithm for Optimal Integrated Points Placement in Hybrid <endeca_term>Optical</endeca_term>-Wireless Access Networks

S2U: An Efficient Algorithm for Optimal Integrated Points Placement in Hybrid Optical-Wireless Access Networks

The hybrid optical and wireless networks have been proposed as a promising approach to meet... Read more

17 February, 2011
CaDAR: An Efficient Routing Algorithm for Wireless-<endeca_term>Optical</endeca_term> Broadband Access Network

CaDAR: An Efficient Routing Algorithm for Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network

Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Network (WOBAN) is a combination of wireless and optical network... Read more

1 January, 2011

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