Optical

ANELLO Photonics, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, has joined NVIDIA Inception, a program designed to nurture startups revolutionizing industries with technology advancements. ANELLO is focused on building low-noise...

Raytheon Technologies introduced a tactical Free-Space Optical Communications system for high-speed, secure data transfer in challenging environments. The company said its laser-driven system provides greater bandwidths in a form factor...

The IOWN Global Forum announced five new members to its Board of Directors: Ciena, Steve Alexander, Chief Technology Officer Orange, Gilles Bourdon, Vice President, Wireline Networks and Infrastructure Fujitsu, Shingo...

Imagia, a start-up based in Fremont, California, announced the close of a $4.5M seed round for evelopment and initial commercial deployment of the company’s first generation of flat, silicon-based optical...

POET Technologies introduced a packaged light source solution for AI applications.  POET’s Starlight products integrate active components like lasers and certain other passive optical and electrical components into the optical...

Nokia introduced its second ‘pizza-box’ form optical line terminal (OLT).  The new Quillion-powered Lightspan DF-32GM extends Nokia’s OLT portfolio for multi-gig deployments in low density areas by communication service providers...

SkyLine, a provider of advanced telecommunications in North Carolina, has selected Ribbon Communications to supply a comprehensive IP and Optical network solution. Ribbon said its IP Wave solution enables greater...

The VERTIGO (Very High Throughput Satellite-Ground Optical link) project successfully demonstrated a high-power optical data transmission system at the Thales laboratory in Palaiseau, France.  Thales Alenia Space, Thales, G&H and...

The University of Southampton's Silicon Photonics group announced the publication of its paper on "Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators" in the prestigious Nature Photonics journal.  The researchers have shown that  absorption...

With the deployment of C band + L band (“C+L”) photonic nodes on the terrestrial links in Europe, Middle East and South America, Sparkle further increases its transmission capacity up...

Central Electric Power Cooperative (CEPC) deployed Infinera’s XTM Series to modernize and significantly increase capacity on its existing rural broadband network across the state of Missouri.  CEPC is an electric...

Ciena introduced its new WaveRouter platform architecture for unifying IP, optical, and compute functionality in a single platform for the converged metro network.  Ciena says WaveRouter is built on an...

Banias Labs achieved first-pass silicon success for its optical DSP SoC using Synopsys 112G Ethernet PHY IP and EDA Design Suite.  Synopsys provided Banias Labs with a comprehensive IP solution...