The element erbium could pave the way to a quantum internet
If you were to try reciting the periodic table, you might stumble before you got to the rare earth elements.
Quantum Physics
Nov 6, 2017
0
32
News tagged with fibre optics
'Twisted' light could illuminate new path for wireless communications
Scientists have taken an important step towards using 'twisted' light as a form of wireless, high-capacity data transmission which could make fibre-optics obsolete.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 26, 2017
0
396
And suddenly, the dam broke, letting the grains of light gush forth…
Physicists from the University of Lille, in collaboration with the University of Ferrara in Italy, have introduced a river into an optical laboratory… They have just observed the rupture of a photon barrier in an optical ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 26, 2017
1
7
Technology increases the sensitivity of infrastructural sensors by more than 50 times
Technology from the Public University of Navarre monitors the structural health of infrastructure (bridges, viaducts, oil pipelines, gas pipelines, etc.) and can be used in intensity-based optical sensors that modify the ...
Engineering
Oct 2, 2017
0
3
Low Frequency Array Ireland officially launched
On 27 July 2017, the newly built Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) station in Ireland will be officially opened. This extends the largest radio telescope in the world, connecting to its central core of antennas in the north of ...
Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2017
0
7
Image: Laser testing in ESA's technical centre in the Netherlands
The Opto-Electronics Laboratory investigates devices that generate, detect and manipulate light, such as high-performance lasers, photon detectors and fibre optics.
Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2017
0
4
Research opens door to smaller, cheaper, more agile communications tech
Research led by ANU on the use of magnets to steer light has opened the door to new communications systems which could be smaller, cheaper and more agile than fibre optics.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 16, 2017
0
33
Researchers make one-way street for light
Researchers at FOM institute AMOLF and the University of Texas at Austin have created a compact one-way street for light. That is remarkable because light waves can generally move in both directions inside a material. Optical ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 29, 2016
2
753
Paving the way for fast low-energy data communications
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
0
7
Key component for wireless communication with terahertz frequencies
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
0
0
