Regulatory News

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Applied Optoelectronics Announces The 1.8 GHz Cable Plant Signal Generator 3/16/2020

    Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAOI), a leading provider of fiber-optic access network products for the internet datacenter, cable broadband, telecom and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) markets, today announced the release of the 1.8 GHz Cable Plant Signal Generator (CPSG) that can be used to simulate the full channel loading of the next generation cable TV networks.

  10. Verizon Transports 800 Gbps Of Data Across A single Wavelength On Fiber 2/28/2020

    Verizon, along with Ciena and Juniper Networks, have recently completed a test in Verizon’s live fiber network to move 800 Gbps of data on a single wavelength