HyperLight has developed an integrated electro-optical modulator technology that allows drive voltages below 100 GHz.

Food production is a complex process involving the careful monitoring and management of raw materials, supply chains, market prices, and much more. Access to smart data allows food producers to plan intelligently and optimize their production processes, enabling them to produce the necessary quantities more cheaply and in a more environmentally friendly way.

For telecom operators and service providers looking to deploy future-proof fiber services, the Broadband Forum has published its latest technical report to help ensure that homes and businesses have access to faster and more reliable broadband connectivity by leveraging copper infrastructure.

Global composites manufacturer Exel Composites has patented a telecommunications radome design for use across Europe. The material design will aid in the deployment of fifth-generation (5G) networks and help overcome the signal attenuation and antenna protection challenges faced by telecommunications companies.

Researchers from the University of Southampton and Laval University (Canada) have successfully measured retroreflection in next-generation hollow fibers for the first time, finding it to be approximately 10,000 times lower than that of conventional optical fibers. This discovery highlights another optical property in which hollow fibers outperform standard optical fibers.

Researchers at George Washington University and the University of California, Los Angeles, have developed and demonstrated for the first time a photonic digital-to-analog converter that operates entirely within the optical domain. These novel converters could advance next-generation data processing hardware, with significant implications for data centers, 6G networks, and artificial intelligence, among other applications.

A new study by Nokia and Telefónica has found that 5G networks are up to 90 percent more efficient per unit of traffic than legacy 4G networks. The research, conducted over a three-month period, focused on the energy consumption of the Radio Access Network (RAN) in Telefónica's network.

The next generation of fiber optic cables could be one step closer, as a new study has shown that hollow-core fibers, created in Southampton, could reduce the power loss currently experienced in standard glass fibers.

Nokia has announced the world's first 25 Gbps symmetric fiber PON broadband solution. This unique solution works on Nokia's existing next-generation PON hardware, such as access nodes and line cards, to deliver universal PON capabilities and enable communications service providers (CSPs) to overload their networks and improve fiber network utilization.

Silicon photonics researchers at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton have demonstrated the first all-silicon optical transmitter at 100Gbps and beyond without the use of digital signal processing.

The 5G device market is expanding rapidly; several 5G smartphones are already available, and manufacturers are emphasizing the benefits of low latency and high download speeds. However, 5G still faces many challenges, especially regarding infrastructure.

The continuous and rapid increase in bandwidth demand has created an urgent need for data centers to increase the capacity of their fiber optic networks. Within and between existing data center buildings, it has become necessary to maximize the number of fibers in existing conduits to avoid the costly and time-consuming construction of new facilities.

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