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Intel aims to make fibre optics mainstream
News You have probably heard about fibre optics for years — some kind of exotic technology used to carry gargantuan quantities of data across continents. Intel's Light Peak technology uses lasers and fibre optics to transfer data to and from PCs and...
[September 29, 2009, 13:53]
DxO Optics Pro
Downloads DxO Optics Pro is a multi-award winning program running on Windows or Macintosh to automatically improve image quality. Based on extensive analysis of cameras and lenses, DxO Optics Pro is unlike any other digital photography software application.
[September 2, 2009, 16:38]
Breaking the Physical Barriers With Electronic Dynamically Compensating Optics (eDCO)
White Papers Electronic Dynamically Compensating Optics (eDCO) is a leading edge technology that breaks the physical barriers to enable reliable and cost-effective broadband connectivity across 2000+ km and over any fiber build-out while ensuring simple...
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
Fiber Optics
White Papers Before fiber optics came along, the primary means of communicating data was in the form of electronic signals transmitted on copper wire, or electromagnetic radio waves that traveled through the air. Although these long proven technologies are...
[April 27, 2004, 0:05]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
Talkback I think the researchers should look into the new tech described in this article: Fibreless optical data transfer mooted http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39169059,00.htm With the cost of producing LED's signifigantly lower...
[October 12, 2004, 17:06]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
News When it comes to developing faster computers, Intel has seen the light. The chipmaker recently launched a new effort inside its Microprocessor Research Lab aimed at examining a move from using aluminium and copper wires for moving data inside...
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
Silicon-based optics to reach market 'in two years'
News Luxtera, a start-up with a fairly strong silicon pedigree, says it will marry fast optical communications to cheap silicon manufacturing in about two years, sooner than competitors. The Carlsbad, California-based company announced on Monday that it...
[March 29, 2005, 17:20]
Nanotubes shed new light on fibre optics
News The light emitted by the nanotubes featured a wavelength of 1.5 microns, the same wavelength used in fibre optics today, noted Avouris. Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that...
[May 2, 2003, 7:57]
Ofcom and fibre optics for rural telephone connections
Talkback Living in a village 4 miles from the nearest exchange is like living on another planet - maximum sped is 512kbps and as I work from home with associates in the EU and in all other continents, broadband speed is important and my speed is such that...
[February 15, 2007, 10:03]
Light-emitting silicon boosts chip speeds
News British scientists are claiming a breakthrough that promises to unite microelectronics with fibre optics and bring about an upheaval in microprocessor manufacturing and modern communications. Silicon is one of the key building blocks of integrated...
[March 8, 2001, 15:02]
Using a five-layer filter to cut spam
News Job: President, Hudson Research Inc.which runs an electro-optics foundry including an optical shop, an electronics lab, an electro-optics lab, and mechanical fabrication areas, and produces devices for the military and the telecommunications industry
[December 15, 2003, 12:00]
There is a reason for the digital divide not mentioned here
Talkback There are no wide spread fibre optics networks available anywhere. It's time to dig up the roads and put in the fibre optics contry wide. BT still has a monopoly in many areas, even in the sourth east.
[August 28, 2008, 11:31]
'Tunable' lasers revolutionise telecoms
News A new technology in the fibre-optics market is striking the right note with investors and raising cash at a time when industry confidence is low and venture capital is hard to find. Similarly, Blue Sky Research, another fibre-optic component maker...
[March 20, 2001, 13:20]
here what I found out
Talkback Yea yea, I know that BT's official line was to avoid fiber optics for the next 20years, then this new (and young) chappy was made boss and with Virgin rolling out fiber optics suddenly BT found 1.5BN to spend on this, which is on the cheap.
[September 15, 2008, 10:31]
Physics Quick Study Guide - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures in the trial version.
Downloads FREE two chapters in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Laws of Science Classical Mechanics Heat, Gas, and Thermodynamics Electromagnetism...
[May 31, 2007, 8:00]
Physics Quick Study Guide - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures in the trial version.
Downloads FREE two chapters in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Laws of Science Classical Mechanics Heat, Gas, and Thermodynamics Electromagnetism...
[May 31, 2007, 8:00]
BT clamps down on broadband use
Talkback Speaking of bandwidth, when will BT bite the bullet and start digging up the roads to install fibre optics to every home? As it appears to me, that BT are intentionally dragging their feet about putting in fibre optics.
[March 28, 2006, 13:48]
Physics Formulas and Tables - FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures chapters in the trial
Downloads FREE Laws of Science and Weights and Measures in the trial version.Features Clear and concise explanations Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms Illustrated with graphs and diagrams Includes: Laws of Science Classical Mechanics Heat...
[June 20, 2007, 8:00]
Xerox chip makes fibre cheaper
News Most projects to date have collapsed, said Gasman, who added that Xerox is likely overstating the importance of its new component in bringing fibre optics to the home and small businesses in the near future.
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
Staying Out Late? Equip yourself with these High Tech Gadgets (Part 2)
News Arm yourself with the Nighthawk ON1X20/IR night vision goggles from Lan Optics International, and you can do all your dirty work under a shroud of complete darkness. Under a Shroud of Complete Darkness : Lan Optics Nighthawk ON1X20/IR
[October 25, 1999, 9:55]
