Research & Development

A team of researchers from NICT in Japan has set a new world record for internet speed at 319Tb/s.

A team of researchers has developed a temporal compression system that allows an equivalent increase in the number of bits transmitted by light in a fibre network.

A team of researchers at The Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Europe have demonstrated quantum communications over 600km of optical fibres.

A team of researchers from China Mobile Research Institute has successfully tested the 1,100km transmission of 800G systems.

A team of seismologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in partnership with optics experts at Google, have developed a method to use existing subsea cables to detect earthquakes.

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 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.

A team of researchers from the George Washington University and University of California, Los Angeles, have created and demonstrated a photonic digital to analog converter without leaving the optical domain.

A new study from a team of researchers from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that fibres with a hollowed out centre could reduce loss of power.

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).