News tagged with optical signal

Redefining electrical current law with the transistor laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the laws of physics weren't made to be broken, sometimes they need revision. A major current law has been rewritten thanks to the three-port transistor laser, developed by Milton Feng ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Funnel vision: New info about how cells in the eye help guide light into the retina

The eyes are marvelous instruments for converting outside reality into images lodged inside our brains. A new study of the retina, the light-sensitive region at the back of the eye, solves a mystery as to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Fiber Optical Transmission In Demand Of Higher Capacity

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the increasing high volume content over the internet, such as multimedia and high definition images, new transmission methods need to be found to handle the increasing data demand. Nippon ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Physicists demonstrate 100-fold speed increase in optical quantum memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- As with today's computers, future quantum computers will require more than just quantum information processing; they will also require methods to store and retrieve the quantum information. ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Fiber-wireless (Fi-Wi) to provide ultra-high-speed, short-range communication

(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking at the latest electronic communication devices that have emerged over the past few years, it's clear that the trend of smaller, portable devices is strong and expected to continue. ...

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

New device for ultrafast optical communications

A new device invented by engineers at UC Davis could make it much faster to convert pulses of light into electronic signals and back again. The technology could be applied to ultrafast, high-capacity communications, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New photonic material may facilitate all-optical switching and computing

A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties needed to serve as the foundation for low-power, ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High-performance microring resonator developed by INRS researchers

A new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high speed telecommunications systems has been developed and tested by Professor Roberto Morandotti's INRS team in collaboration with Canadian, American, and Australian ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Compressing photonic signals for greater bandwidth

Cornell researchers have developed an ingenious method to time-compress optical signals. The process could enable optical communication systems to carry many more bits per second or could also be used to generate ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 3

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 ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Astronomers seek to explore the cosmic Dark Ages

No place seems safe from the prying eyes of inquisitive astronomers. They've traced the evolution of the universe back to the "Big Bang," the theoretical birth of the cosmos 13.7 billion years ago, but there's still a long ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Bell Labs breaks optical transmission record, 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier

Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (32) | comments 0

Up-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry

In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2

New nanolaser -- spaser -- key to future optical computers and technologies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because the new device, called a "spaser," is the first of its kind to emit visible light, it represents a critical component for possible future technologies based on "nanophotonic" circuitry, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2

U-verse offers TV alternative and more

OK, I admit it. When I am asked to test questionable software, I usually install it first on my wife's computer. And my kids are crash-test dummies ramming head-first into all sorts of dubious products. But they don't care ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2