ITU has released a new framework to guide the evolution of global optical connectivity in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

A team of Stanford University electrical engineers has discovered how to switch a beam of laser light on and off up to 100 billion times a second with materials that are widely used in the ...

An optical isolator developed at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) could drastically improve optical systems for many practical applications. All optical ...

Using all-optical controls could speed the transmission of telecommunications data, but optical switches that can work at high bandwidths need a lot of energy to turn on and off. So the usual approach ...

(Nanowerk News) South Korean researchers have developed technology to mass-produce quantum dot lasers, widely used in data centers and quantum communications. This breakthrough could reduce ...

As the amount of data grows, so does interest in silicon photonics. There is no better way to move data than with light. It’s faster, requires less energy, and generates less heat. The main trouble ...

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 ...

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is the optical networking industry’s non-profit forum for creating interoperability standards for electrical, optical, and control with the goal to promote ...

DALLAS, TX and MOSCOW--(Marketwire - Oct 8, 2012) - Xtera Communications Inc. (Xtera), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, today announced that its multi-purpose optical ...

In his lab in Sunnyvale, CA, ­David Welch, cofounder of telecom startup Infinera, holds up a rigid two-­centimeter-wide strip featuring four patterned, gold-colored rectangles. It’s made of indium ...