Optical

It's been a busy year at Ayar Labs, which is pushing ahead with its mission to solve optical I/O bottlenecks. At the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference in March, Ayar...

Verizon demonstrated 1.6 terabits per second (Tbps) data transmission on a single wavelength using Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) optical solution in its live metro fiber network in Boston. Conducted...

OIF announced the launch of the 1600 Coherent Light project during its Q4 2024 Technical and MA&E Committees Member Meeting, held in Melbourne, Australia, from November 5-7. This initiative focuses...

Coherent Corp. launched its high-speed indium phosphide (InP) photodiodes, now available for production. The new devices are tailored for the next generation of 800G and 1.6T optical transceivers, leveraging 200...

Lightmatter selected GlobalFoundries (GF) to mass-produce its "Passage," a 3D-stacked silicon photonics platform designed to meet the escalating demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. Passage aims to deliver...

Ekinops introduced the PM_100HDF01, a pluggable module for its Ekinops360 WDM optical transport system. Designed to meet the growing bandwidth demands at the network edge, the PM_100HDF01 offers 100G connectivity...

Element Six (E6) has announced an investment in Lightsynq, a quantum interconnect startup founded by Harvard PhDs and former AWS Center for Quantum Networking (CQN) researchers. Lightsynq focuses on developing...

Sumitomo Electric Industries has introduced a low-latency media converter (LLMC) technology that delivers high-resolution video content over networks with an average transmission latency of just 0.07 milliseconds. Jointly developed with...

The Netherlands is set to host a European pilot plant for photonic chips, a new generation of chips that use light instead of electrons to process information. Backed by €380...

Nokia and Islalink successfully achieved 800Gbps transmission over a 330km (205-mile) unrepeated submarine cable, connecting Crotone, Italy, with Preveza, Greece. The milestone, reached through Nokia’s sixth-generation Photonic Service Engine (PSE-6s),...

Lightmatter has announced a strategic collaboration with Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE), the world’s largest semiconductor packaging and testing provider, to advance the Passage™ platform. Passage is the world’s first...

Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) announced its first order for a thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic chip from a major Asian research and technology institute. This initial order signals a...

Paratus Group, a pan-African telecom provider, has launched the Paratus Express Route, a high-capacity fiber route connecting Johannesburg directly to Europe. Using Infinera’s advanced technology, this route is designed to...