- A major step toward the realization of a backbone communication system that supports various information communication services after Beyond 5G A group of researchers from the Network Research ...

Fiber optic technology is the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, and recent innovations are propelling its capabilities to new heights. In the past few years, breakthroughs in materials, ...

The Global Optical Fiber Switch Market is primed for growth due to rising demands for energy-efficient data management, boosted by AI and 5G advancements. Key challenges include high capital costs, ...

Finchetto CEO exclusively talks to us about using light to cut network latency, reduce power use, and remove network ...

As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies ...

Although fiber optic cables today are fast, converting their photons to electric signals at the internet server level still uses a lot of electricity. Japanese telecom firm NTT and Tokyo-based ...

Novel optical switches and modulators based on electro-optical waveguides induced in special liquid crystal arrangements have been developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS, ...

The metropolitan-area network has quickly developed into the next great opportunity for optical networking gear. Over the last few years the local-area (or enterprise) network has seen an explosion of ...

CIEN's optical lead, AI-driven demand and raised 2026 revenue outlook set it against Nokia as investors assess which ...

Fig. 1. (a) Schematic of the 1x2 optical switch element based on the Ln-Si3N4 hybrid waveguide. (b) Missalignment tolerance of the evanescent coupler in the Y direction. (c) Effective index of the ...