News tagged with optical fiber communication


Spreading high-speed Internet to rural areas

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To cut the cost of bringing high-speed Internet to rural areas, Dr. Ka Lun Lee and colleagues at the University of Melbourne and NEC Australia in the state of Victoria are experimenting with a way to boost the reach of existing ...


Rogue Wave

Engineers ride 'rogue' laser waves to build better light sources

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 2

A freak wave at sea is a terrifying sight. Seven stories tall, wildly unpredictable, and incredibly destructive, such waves have been known to emerge from calm waters and swallow ships whole. But rogue waves ...





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New light source may up inspection quality

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 19, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U.S. engineers have created fiber-optic light technology designed to improve the inspection accuracy of "line-scan" cameras.


Ad watchdog: Cablevision Internet not 'fastest'

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Cablevision Systems Corp. should stop saying its Internet service is "the fastest around," the advertising industry's self-regulatory body said Thursday, in response to complaints from competitor Verizon Communications ...


Silicon optical fiber made practical

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Scientists at Clemson University for the first time have been able to make a practical optical fiber with a silicon core, according to a new paper published in the current issue of the Optical Society's open-access journal, ...


Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Siemens builds a lock made of light: Data transfer using quantum cryptography

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic communication is becoming more secure all over the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Austrian Research Centers (ARC) and Graz University of Technology have joined forces ...


Fiber-optic booster on a chip

Fiber-optic booster on a chip

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 20, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (35) | comments 0

More and more of our communications -- from text messages to high-definition television -- travel over optical fiber. At last count the United States was crisscrossed by more than 80 million miles of it, with ...


Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic

Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3

A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the controlled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity.


Supercontinuum generation and soliton dynamics milestone achieved

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 1

A research team led by Fetah Benabid, University of Bath, has observed for the first time the simultaneous emission of two resonant dispersive waves by optical solitons (waves that maintain their shape while traveling at ...


Making monster waves

Making monster waves

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Rogue waves -- giant waves that spring up suddenly and tower over the seas around them—have inspired physicists to look for an analogue in light. These high-intensity pulses can cross large distances without ...


Time Lens

Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...


Research continues on secure, mobile, quantum communications

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researcher Dr. David H. Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. is leading a team investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater.



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