News tagged with optical fibres
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.
Nov 03, 2010 |
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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.
Sep 19, 2010 |
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Scientists develop device to enable improved global data transmission
Researchers have developed a new data transmission system that could substantially improve the transmission capacity and energy efficiency of the world's optical communication networks.
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Peregrine's 'Soliton' observed at last
(PhysOrg.com) -- An old mathematical solution proposed as a prototype of the infamous ocean rogue waves responsible for many maritime catastrophes has been observed in a continuous physical system for the ...
Aug 23, 2010 |
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Making light work: The 50-year odyssey of the laser
Fifty years ago next Sunday, a 32-year-old engineer called Theodore Maiman switched on a gadget at Hughes Research Laboratories in California, and watched as pulses of light sprang from a pink ruby crystal.
May 12, 2010 |
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Brighten up -- it's a new plastic optical fibre technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fibre or POF promises to revolutionise high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic ...
Oct 16, 2009 |
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'Masters of light' win Nobel Physics Prize
Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering "masters of light" work on fibre optics and semiconductors, the Nobel jury said.
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Measuring the next successful antennas for in-body health monitoring devices
Antennas for the latest implanted medical devices are being developed by Queen Mary University of London and tested through a unique piece of kit at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
Sep 08, 2009 |
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New undersea cable gives Africa high-speed Internet
A 13,700-kilometre (8,500-mile) undersea fibre-optic cable to provide high-speed Internet access on Africa's Indian Ocean coast went live on Thursday, its operator said.
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Kenya gets undersea broadband fibre optic cable
An undersea fibre optic cable bringing broadband Internet connectivity to east Africa, reached the Kenyan coast from the United Arab Emirates on Friday, the president said.
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light — photons — on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after ...
Jun 05, 2009 |
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First Afghan fibre optic cable connects to Tajikistan
Part of Afghanistan's first international fibre optic cable has opened in a project that will make the country millions of dollars and boost regional connectivity, a cabinet minister said Thursday.
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Scientists demonstrate all-fiber quantum logic
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.
May 28, 2009 |
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Life Expectancy on the Rise -- Even for Quantum States
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring and controlling the lifetime of quantum states with potential use in optoelectronic chips. This achievement is highly significant ...
Apr 14, 2009 |
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