News tagged with optical fibres

Crystalline materials enable high-speed electronic function in optical fibers

Scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with Penn State University have, for the first time, embedded the high level of performance normally associated with chip-based semiconductors ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

How Internet is changing Ugandan business

Sitting in the glow of his flat-screen computer monitor in a fashionable office, Donald Kasule says that until recently it was almost impossible to imagine making a success of an Internet start-up in Uganda.

Technology / Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pentagon-backed 'time cloak' stops the clock (Update)

Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (64) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

NPL research helps drive forward the creation of a Digital Britain

With government plans for a Digital Britain firmly underway, the amount of data that will be sent on the internet is set to increase dramatically.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A single cell endoscope: Researchers use nanophotonics for optical look inside living cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- An endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single living cell, or precisely deliver genes, proteins, therapeutic drugs or other cargo without injuring ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Endoscope controlled by MRI: A 'fantastic voyage' through the body

small cameras or optic fibres that are usually attached to flexible tubing designed to investigate the interior of the body — can be dangerously invasive. Procedures often require sedative medications ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Taiwan deploys undersea quake warning system

Taiwan said Monday it had put into service its first undersea seismic observation system, giving the island life-saving extra seconds or even minutes to brace for earthquakes and tsunamis.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

ACE Africa cable to go online late next year: France Telecom

A fibre-optic cable from France to South Africa will go online in the second half of 2012, bringing high-speed Internet links to a host of west African countries, France Telecom said Wednesday.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New hybrid technology could bring 'quantum information systems'

(PhysOrg.com) -- The merging of two technologies under development - plasmonics and nanophotonics - is promising the emergence of new "quantum information systems" far more powerful than today's computers.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How to tell real whiskey from fake -- faster

Methods for distinguishing between authentic and counterfeit Scotch whisky brands have been devised by scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Singapore researchers invent broadband graphene polarizer

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have invented a graphene-based polarizer that can broaden the bandwidth of prevailing optical fiber-based telecommunication systems.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher develops medical technology to detect and treat disease

Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. These are also the deadly diseases that Victor Yang's research team aims to alleviate.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Space-time cloak' to conceal events revealed in new study

(PhysOrg.com) -- The study, by researchers from Imperial College London, involves a new class of materials called metamaterials, which can be artificially engineered to distort light or sound waves. With conventional ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Wireless broadband coming to the bush

A major CSIRO breakthrough in wireless technology designed to bring broadband to people living beyond the optical fibre network, will be unveiled in Sydney tomorrow.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

EU acts to extend digital switchover to remote and elderly

Regulators will bid Monday to extend mobile Internet access to Europe's farthest flung outposts by opening up commercial rights to the analogue broadcasting spectrum.

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0