Regulatory News

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. CommScope Announces Turn-Key AgileMax Field Solution For RFoG Deployments 8/5/2020

    CommScope announced today the FDH3000 AgileMax Cabinet for RF-over-Glass (RFoG) deployments. The solution combines CommScope’s proven AgileMax active optical distribution technology which prevents Optical Beat Interference (OBI) in RFoG deployments with its FDH3000 fiber distribution hub and integrated splitter cabinet

  6. Cosemi Expands Worldwide Retail Presence For Hybrid Active Optical Cables 7/21/2020

    Cosemi Technologies Inc. today announced that it has expanded worldwide retail distribution channels for its hybrid active optical cables (AOCs). Now Cosemi’s USB, HDMI and DisplayPort AOCs will be available on Newegg, Amazon Japan and Amazon Singapore

  7. Corning And EnerSys Announce Collaboration To Help Speed 5G Deployment 7/15/2020

    Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) and EnerSys (NYSE:ENS) today announced a strategic collaboration to speed 5G deployment by simplifying the delivery of fiber and electrical power to small-cell wireless sites.

  8. The Smallest Micro-Gripper, Grown On Optical Fibers, Is Operated Remotely With Light 7/15/2020

    Researchers at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, used the liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a series of micro-tools grown on optical fibers.

  9. Multinational Technology Company Selects United Fiber & Data For Long-Haul Dark Fiber Connectivity 7/14/2020

    United Fiber & Data (UFD), a privately owned telecommunications provider, today announced that a Fortune 100 multinational technology company has selected United Fiber & Data for long-haul dark fiber connectivity in the northeastern United States.

  10. Radio-Over-Fiber Compression Poised To Advance 5G Wireless Networks 7/9/2020

    Although new 5G networks can offer much faster and more efficient wireless data transfer, the fiber optic networks currently used to connect wireless devices to the internet cannot easily support the increased load. A new study shows that a compression scheme for radio-over-fiber links could help solve this problem for a variety of 5G formats.