Vast amounts of data transmit across the Internet and telecommunications networks delivering, for example, real-time video calls from one cell phone to another - across the world. As people send and receive increasing amounts ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 31, 2017
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Enterprise networks and data centers continue to increase their demands for connectivity, with ever larger quantities of data expected to be transmitted in the foreseeable future. Over the past 20 years, fiber-optic technology ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 20, 2017
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Russian researchers have developed a new material that converts infrared light to ultrashort pulses of ultraviolet. For this purpose, the scientists exposed silicon film to a laser so that its relief adjusted under the light ...
Nanophysics
Dec 21, 2016
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A team of scientists and engineers led by Princeton researchers recently reported the successful operation of a new instrument for the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii that will allow astronomers to make direct observations of ...
Astronomy
Nov 10, 2016
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Fibre-optic cables are revolutionising data communication worldwide. Within three years, Chalmers researchers expect to be able to transfer 100 Gb of data per second in a single fibre with one core, and several terabits per ...
Telecom
Nov 8, 2016
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Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment.
Quantum Physics
Sep 27, 2016
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Websites take minutes to load and photos take hours to upload at Ryan Davis' home in the small southern Tennessee city of Dayton. If Davis gets in his car and drives about half an hour south to Chattanooga, though, everything ...
Telecom
Sep 23, 2016
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Data traffic is growing worldwide. Glass-fiber cables transmit information over long distances at the speed of light. Once they have reached their destination, however, these optical signals have to be converted into electrical ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 2, 2016
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Like a whirlpool, a new light-based communication tool carries data in a swift, circular motion.
Optics & Photonics
Jul 28, 2016
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Today's high-speed wired communication networks use lasers to carry information through optical fibers, but wireless networks are currently based on radio frequencies or microwaves. In an advance that could one day make light-based ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 19, 2016
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