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  1. Revealing The Reason Behind Jet Formation At The Tip Of Laser Optical Fiber 10/9/2020

    When an optical fiber is immersed in liquid, a high temperature, high speed jet is discharged. Researchers expect this to be applied to medical treatment in the future. Now, a research team from Russia and Japan has explored this phenomenon further and revealed the reasons behind the jet formation.

  2. RCN, Grande And Wave Business Solutions Announce Collaboration With Ciena 9/23/2020

    RCN, Grande and Wave Business Solutions, a communications provider delivering industry-leading high-speed internet, voice, and cloud networking services for businesses of all sizes, today announced its collaboration with networking, services and software company Ciena.

  3. L-com Releases New Fiber Optic Pigtails To Address A Wide Range Of Telecom Applications 9/22/2020

    L-com, a preferred manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity products, announced today that it has launched a new line of distribution-style fiber pigtails that are ideal for telecom, datacom, wireless service provider, security and enterprise networking applications.

  4. PIT Chile Utilizes PacketLight's 800G Optical Solution For Data Center Interconnect In Santiago 9/15/2020

    PacketLight Networks, a leading provider of DWDM and optical fiber networking solutions, announced that PIT Chile, a major Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for major CDNs including Facebook, Fastly, Google, and Microsoft, and local Chilean ISPs businesses, has deployed PacketLight's PL-2000T transponder to connect two of its data centers in Santiago, Chile.

  5. Ultra-Fast Magnetic Switching With Potential To Transform Fibre Optical Communications 9/15/2020

    Researchers at CRANN and Trinity’s School of Physics have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch.

  6. Ultra Communications, Inc. Achieves AS9100 Certification 9/8/2020

    Ultra Communications, Inc., a manufacturer of high-speed digital and RF fiber optic components, announces successful completion of AS9100 certification for its quality management system

  7. Tiny Circuits, Long Distances: Smaller Light Processing Devices For Fiber-Optic Communication 8/28/2020

    Optical signals produced by laser sources are extensively used in fiber-optic communications, which work by pulsing information packaged as light through cables, even at great distances, from a transmitter to a receiver.

  8. No Limit Yet For Carbon Nanotube Fibers 8/19/2020

    Carbon nanotube fibers made at Rice University are now stronger than Kevlar and are inching up on the conductivity of copper.

  9. Tripp Lite’s New Cable Management Systems Reduce Cable Clutter In Data Centers 8/11/2020

    Tripp Lite, a global manufacturer of power protection and connectivity solutions, makes it easy to reduce cable clutter in data centers, server rooms and other IT environments.

  10. Using Air To Amplify Light 8/11/2020

    “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 it.” But now Luc Thévenaz, the head of the Fiber Optics Group in EPFL’s School of Engineering, has finally made it happen: his lab has developed a technology to amplify light inside the latest hollow-core optical fibers.