Regulatory News

  1. Release Of Fiber Optic Splice Rack For Ultra-High Density Cable 7/6/2020

    Fujikura Ltd. (President & CEO: Masahiko Ito) has released fiber optic splice rack for ultra-high density cable.

  2. A Completely New Plasmonic Chip For Ultrafast Data Transmission Using Light 7/3/2020

    ETH researchers have built an ultrafast chip that can speed up data transmission in fibre optic networks. The chip combines several innovations at the same time and, given the growing demand for streaming and online services, represents a significant development.

  3. 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.

  4. 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”)

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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.