Regulatory News

1. Ultraviolet Laser Induces Color Centers In Ytterbium-Doped Silica Glasses 6/16/2020

   Ytterbium-doped silica fiber (YDF) has important applications in material processing and scientific research. The photodarkening (PD) effect, which originates from the formation of color centers, can decrease the laser output power over 1,000 h by about 10% and will seriously restrict the power stability of the fiber laser.

2. Hexatronic To Acquire UK-Based Fiber Optic Company Tech Optics Ltd. 6/1/2020

   Hexatronic Group AB (publ) (”Hexatronic”) has on June 1 entered into an agreement to acquire all shares in the UK-based fiber optic company Tech Optics Limited (“Tech Optics”)

3. Cosemi Offers Broadest Portfolio Of USB Hybrid Active Optical Cables 5/19/2020

   The ubiquitous USB connector is found in devices of all kinds – from smart phones, tablets, computers, cameras, gaming and enterprise display consoles, and more

4. Monitoring Glaciers With Optical Fibres 5/15/2020

   Seismic monitoring of glaciers is essential to improving our understanding of their development and to predicting risks. SNSF Professor Fabian Walter has come up with a new monitoring tool in the form of optical fibres

5. HKBN Provides Next-Generation All-Fibre Backhaul To SmarTone Offers Ultra-High Speed And Reliable Backhaul Connectivity For SmarTone 5G Cell Sites 4/1/2020

   SmarTone and HKBN Group ("HKBN”) announced today that they have entered into a collaboration agreement to use HKBN’s next-generation all-fibre backhaul for SmarTone’s advanced 5G network

6. Study Shows Potential For Using Fiber-Optic Networks To Assess Ground Motions During Earthquakes 3/31/2020

   A new study from a University of Michigan researcher and colleagues at three institutions demonstrates the potential for using existing networks of buried optical fibers as an inexpensive observatory for monitoring and studying earthquakes.

7. Using Fiber Optics To Advance Safe And Renewable Energy 3/30/2020

   Fiber optic cables, it turns out, can be incredibly useful scientific sensors. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have studied them for use in carbon sequestration, groundwater mapping, earthquake detection, and monitoring of Arctic permafrost thaw

8. Researchers Develop A Black Phosphorus All-Fiber Humidity Sensor 3/27/2020

   A research group led by Prof. LI Jia and Prof. XU Xuefeng from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with Prof. YANG Dexing from Northwestern Polytechnical University, developed a highly responsive all-fiber humidity sensor with an ultrafast response time as fast as 7ms.

9. Photocatalytic Optical Fibres Convert Water Into Solar Fuel 3/27/2020

   Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibres into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy

10. Long-Distance Fiber Link Poised To Create Powerful Networks Of Optical Clocks 3/17/2020

    An academic-industrial team in Japan has connected three laboratories in a 100-kilometer region with an optical telecommunications fiber network stable enough to remotely interrogate optical atomic clocks