Imagine a dim light which is insufficiently bright enough to illuminate a room. An amplifier for such a light would increase the brightness by increasing the number of photons emitted. Photonics researchers have created such ...
Telecom
Jan 5, 2017
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As data demands continue to grow, scientists predict that it's only a matter of time before today's telecommunication networks reach capacity unless new technologies are developed for transporting data. A new technique could ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 19, 2016
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An ultrahigh speed, wireless communication network using THz instead of GHz frequencies is now one step closer. Researchers at Radboud University's FELIX Laboratory have shown that it is possible to effectively transmit signal ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 4, 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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In the face of increasing bandwidth demands, ground-breaking research between the University of Bristol and the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT) in Japan, has demonstrated solutions for ...
Telecom
Sep 14, 2016
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An EU-funded project, FABULOUS (FDMA Access By Using Low-cost Optical Network Units in Silicon Photonics), has created innovative new components to be used in digital telecommunications including digital radio, television ...
Telecom
Jul 25, 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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The latest supercomputers and large-scale observatories like the Large Hadron Collider have the power to support unprecedented breakthroughs in astrophysics, genomics, climate science and scores of other fields.
Telecom
Jun 21, 2016
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Australia's national broadband network continues its roll out with more than 900,000 premises now connected, according to NBN Co's latest weekly progress report.
Telecom
Apr 28, 2016
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Researchers working under Juerg Leuthold, Professor of Photonics and Communications, have created the world's smallest integrated optical switch. Applying a small voltage causes an atom to relocate, turning the switch on ...
Nanophysics
Feb 1, 2016
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