A New Era of Optical Communications: The Potential of Parametric Amplifiers
The ability to amplify optical signals in optical fibers to their quantum limit is a crucial technological advancement that underpins our modern information society. The…
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Fiber Optical Tweezers: When Light Loses Symmetry, It Can Hold Particles
Optical tweezers use light to immobilize microscopic particles as small as a single atom in 3D space. The basic principle behind optical tweezers is the…
Ultrashort Flashes of Light – Separated Only by Quadrillionths of a Second – Combined Precisely and Quickly
Ultrashort flashes of light lasting less than a quadrillionth of a second are fast growing in technological importance. In laser sources, pairs and groups of…
Secret to Building Superconducting Quantum Computers With Massive Processing Power
Optical Fiber Could Boost Power of Superconducting Quantum Computers The secret to building superconducting quantum computers with massive processing power may be an ordinary telecommunications…
Using Google’s 10,000-km-Long Underwater Fiber-Optic Cable as a Seafloor Seismic Sensor
Using “Curie” — Google’s 10,000-kilometer-long underwater fiber-optic cable connecting Los Angeles, California and Valparaiso, Chile — researchers have demonstrated a novel method for detecting deep-sea…
Using Underwater Telecommunication Cables to Detect Earthquakes
Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could…
Next Generation Optical Fibers With 10,000 Times Lower Backscatter
Researchers from the University of Southampton and Université Laval, Canada, have successfully measured for the first time back-reflection in cutting-edge hollow-core fibers that is around…
New Fiber Optic Temperature Sensing Approach to Keep Tokamak Fusion Power Plants Running
MIT’s Erica Salazar shows that faster detection of thermal shifts can prevent disruptive quench events in the HTS magnets used in tokamak fusion devices. The…
World’s First Transmission of 1 Petabit/S Using a Single-Core Multimode Optical Fiber
A world record transmission of 1 petabit per second in a multimode optical fiber increases the current record data rate in multimode optical fibers by…
First Fiber-Optic Nanotip Electron Gun Enables Easier Nanoscale Imaging and Sensing
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Nebraska have developed an easier way to generate electrons for nanoscale…
New Hollow Optical Fiber Greatly Reduces Signal Noise
A new hollow optical fiber greatly reduces the “noise” interfering with the signals it transmits compared to the single-mode fibers now widely used, researchers at…
Ultra-Fast Magnetic Switching Could Transform Fiber Optic Communications & Expand the Capacity of the Internet
Researchers at CRANN and Trinity’s School of Physics have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch. When struck by successive…
New Internet Speed World Record: 178 Terabits a Second
The world’s fastest data transmission rate has been achieved by a team of University College London engineers who reached an internet speed a fifth faster…
Using Air to Amplify Light in Hollow-Core Optical Fibers
“The idea had been going around my head for about 15 years, but I never had the time or the resources to do anything about…
Light, Fantastic: The Path Ahead for Faster, Nanoscale Photonic Computer Processors
Australian and German researchers build modular bridge design for nanoscale photonic chip. Photonic chips have huge potential for the future of computers and telecommunications. Australian…
Breaking Left-Right Symmetry in Optoelectronic Devices for More Energy Efficient Fiber Communications
Researchers say a new discovery on a U.S. Army project for optoelectronic devices could help make optical fiber communications more energy efficient. The University of…
Physicists Develop a Light Funnel Using Non-Hermitian Skin Effect
Physicists of the University of Würzburg, in a joint collaboration with colleagues from the University of Rostock, have developed a light funnel apparatus. It could…
First All-Optical “Stealth” Encryption Technology Developed
Optical end-to-end solution includes encryption, transmission, decryption, and detection. BGN Technologies, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel, is introducing the…
