Social Media Ideas for Optical Communications

Intelligent Hybrid Strategy Enables High-Dimensional Encrypted Orbital-Angular-Momentum Comb Multicasting for Optical Ne...

A new optical communications strategy is turning one of light’s most intricate properties into a potential engine for faster, more secure data networks. In a study published in Lig...

Japan Moves to Commercializing Low-Power Optical Computing

Japanese companies are moving closer to commercializing photonics-electronics convergence technology that replaces part of conventional electrical data transmission with optical si...

Three Research Teams Take Different Routes to Control Light

Papers from École Polytechnique, Seoul National University, and Harvard tackle optical gain, on-chip buffering, and component footprint.

Bi-Directional Li-Fi Optical Communication System

A bi-directional Li-Fi (light fidelity) optical communication system has been developed for high-speed, two-way digital data transfer over free-space optical links. Using laser dio...

Integrated Photonics Drives New Advances In Optoelectronics

Integrated photonics, advanced wafer fabrication and specialist manufacturing services are helping accelerate efficient optical technologies for high-speed, low-power applications...

Single-Chip Comb Laser Targets Faster Optical Data Interconnects

A new comb laser could simplify optical connectivity, cut power use and reduce data movement for AI-focused datacentre interconnect applications across emerging systems worldwide....

IEEE study highlights cryogenic VCSELs for high-speed optical interconnects

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated that cryogenic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (cryo-VCSELs) could provide a more energy-effici...

The Next AI Infrastructure Battle is Optical

For most of the last decade, the optical layer connecting data centers was an IT plumbing decision, delegated to network engineers and reviewed by executives only when something br...

Feed-Forward Photonic Meshes Enable Programmable Optical Filters

A new generation of optical filters could make advanced communications systems faster, more adaptable and far less dependent on fixed hardware. Researchers have reported programmab...

LPO Optics Cut AI Data Center Power Demand

AI data centers are redefining network efficiency, and VoIP providers should pay attention. Linear Pluggable Optics reduce power, heat, and latency across high speed fabrics, helpi...

Light-based digital memory moves photonic computing toward gigabit-scale storage

An all-optical memory stores digital data in circulating light for over 20 ms, using Raman amplification and multiple wavelengths to boost capacity.

Programmable photonic chip could unlock light-speed optical computing

Co-Packaged Optics Could Boost High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence

The next great leap in artificial intelligence may depend on a technology that does not make processors faster at all. Instead, it may come from changing the way processors communi...

Just 27 Centimeters Could Dramatically Reduce Power Consumption

A new generation of optoelectronic integration technology developed over four decades by Japanese companies is moving closer to commercialization, offering a way to transmit huge v...

Fast steering mirrors (FSMs) enable free-space optical communication

Advanced fast steering mirrors deliver the speed and precision needed to maintain laser communication links across expanding LEO satellite constellations.

AI Drives New Era in Optical Networking and Telecoms

Ciena says AI is accelerating a multiyear network investment cycle, boosting demand for optical networking, data center connectivity, and high capacity bandwidth. As AI traffic res...

AI Weather Classification Powers Adaptive Free-Space Optical Communication Systems

Free-space optical communication promises data rates that conventional radio links cannot match, but it carries an Achilles heel: the atmosphere itself. Fog, dust, rain and snow sc...

Fabrication platform could enable flexible, transparent next-generation photonic chips

The field of silicon photonics, which uses light rather than electricity to transmit and process data on semiconductor chips, has enabled optical systems to evolve from bulky setup...

Japan defense forces to use NTT's optical network tech for communications

Kepler Communications Launches Commercial Optical Data Relay Service

Kepler plans another spacecraft tranche in 2028, with future optical terminals targeting data rates of up to 100 Gbps.

Frozen Fibre Strengthens Light-Sound Coupling

Could freezing a liquid inside an optical fibre improve how efficiently light and sound exchange information? Researchers demonstrated a more than 1,000-fold increase. Researchers...

Ge/SiGe Quantum-Well Photodetectors Integrated with SiN Waveguides on 200-mm Silicon Wafers

A new approach to building faster, more compact optical sensors could help push silicon photonics beyond the limits of conventional semiconductor platforms. In a study published in...

China’s optical chip breakthrough boosts AI speed 100-fold using fraction of compute power

Chinese researchers have developed a new all-optical interconnect system linking standard electronic chips, boosting AI distributed inference speeds by over 100 times while using j...

AI Compute Puts Optical Interconnects in Focus as China’s CIOE Expo Opens in Shenzhen

China’s 27th CIOE expo in Shenzhen puts optical interconnects in focus as AI compute pushes 400G, 800G and 1.6T modules plus LPO, NPO and CPO roadmaps.