Search results for wavelength division multiplexing

Nanophysics Dec 4, 2023

Optical data storage breakthrough increases capacity of diamonds by circumventing the diffraction limit

Physicists at The City College of New York have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain. The research ...

Optics & Photonics Nov 1, 2023

Spatiotemporal mode-locking and dissipative solitons in multimode fiber lasers

The birth of spatiotemporal mode-locking (STML) can date back to the report of Wright and colleagues in 2017. Following this breakthrough, research on STML has thrived. However, our comprehension and control of spatiotemporal ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 27, 2023

Is it possible for a random bit generator to reach a rate of petabits per second?

The optical frequency comb is an important tool in modern physics research and applications. In 2005, Theodor W. Hänsch and John L. Hall were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work on optical frequency ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 17, 2023

New photonic chips for high-capacity data transmissions

With the growth in artificial intelligence (AI), 5G systems, cloud computation, and the Internet of Things, transmitters with extremely high capacities are required for data communication. Ultrafast optical modulation is ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 15, 2023

New metamaterial-based strategy to combine and transmit multiple light modes

The past few years have seen a massive surge in the amount of data transferred and processed per second. Rapidly emerging technologies, such as high-dimensional quantum communications, large-scale neural networks, and high-capacity ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 28, 2023

Multiwavelength quantum well nanowire array micro-LED for on-chip optical communication

As the number of cores in a processor continues to grow, so too does the challenge of connecting them all together. Traditional electrical networks fall short due to latency, limited bandwidth, and high-power consumption. ...

Optics & Photonics Jul 27, 2023

Scientist develop a broadband quantum-dot frequency-modulated comb laser

Since the conception of the laser frequency comb in the late 1990s, it has revolutionized the precise measurement of frequency and time. Beyond their initial use in optical clocks and precision spectroscopy, optical frequency ...

Optics & Photonics Jun 29, 2023

Photonic chip enables faster and more energy-efficient artificial intelligence programs

The data centers and high-performance computers that run artificial intelligence programs, such as large language models, aren't limited by the sheer computational power of their individual nodes. It's another problem—the ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 6, 2023

Researchers achieve nonreciprocal frequency conversion with optical and mechanical modes

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Guo Guangcan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) demonstrated nonreciprocal routing between any two modes with different frequencies through radiation pressure ...

General Physics Jan 20, 2023

Researchers demonstrate co-propagation of quantum and classical signals

In a new study, researchers from Orange and Toshiba Europe show that a quantum data channel and classical optical signals can both propagate in the same fiber for several tens of kilometers with a low error rate. The new ...

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