Future gazing
26 November 2020
Leading industry lights talk to Keely Portway about the challenges and opportunities faced by the optical communications supply chain in the last 12 months, and predict what could lie ahead
Optical Society of America (OSA)
The show must go on
24 June 2021
The recent virtual OFC Conference covered some of the industry’s hottest topics. Keely Portway reports from the Market Watch conference talk about the current state of the industry.
OFC 2021 goes fully virtual
10 March 2021
Organisers of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) have taken the decision to change the 2021 event’s format from a hybrid physical-digital to an all-virtual event.
Researchers successfully measure backscattering in hollow-core fibre
16 February 2021
A team of researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK and Université Laval in Canada, have successfully measured back-reflection in next generation hollow-core fibres.
Researchers demo metasurface that could aid optical comms
11 February 2021
Researchers from Duke University and Facebook’s Connectivity Lab have created a new plasmonic metasurface that achieves record high light efficiency over the entire centimetre-scale metasurface.
OFC 2021 plenary speakers announced
10 February 2021
This year’s OFC event, which will take place 06-10 June 2021 has announced its plenary speakers.
Researchers reveal all-silicon optical transmitter at 100Gb/s without DSP
16 November 2020
A team of researchers from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have demonstrated the first all-silicon optical transmitter at 100Gb/s and beyond without the use of digital signal processing (DSP).
OFC 2021 shifts to Summer schedule
16 October 2020
The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2021) will now take place from 6 -10, June.
OFC 2023
OFC is the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals. The program is comprehensive - from research to marketplace, from components to systems and networks and from technical sessions to the exhibition. For over 40 years, OFC has drawn attendees from all corners of the globe to meet and greet, teach and learn, make connections and move the industry forward.
OSA offers support to members, customers and sponsors during Covid-19 pandemic
20 March 2020
The Optical Society (OSA) is implementing measures to make sure that the health and well-being of its global community is protected.
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Amsterdam
18 October 2022 to 20 October 2022
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A look at some of the challenges faced by submarine network operators, and the ways in which they can maximise performance, whatever their cable system
A look at the market for access equipment and some of the products and solutions available
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Abigail Williams offers a market update on fibre network deployments in the Middle East And North Africa (MENA) region
Zeusconnects Lowestoft in the UK to Zandvoort in the Netherlands (credit: Zayo)
Can subsea cables cope with a world in flux? Alice Jensen finds out
Richard Thorpe, chief delivery officer at CityFibre
Richard Thorpe advises how a partnership approach can ease the procurement process for altnets.
According to Liam Taylor, the answer lies in the detail
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Railway networks not only make for great people and freight transport networks, they also make for great optical transport networks. Jonathan Homa explains what the railway industry needs to consider when building out optical transport links.
