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Category Archives: Components
Google: We Want a New 100G MSA
Google caused a bit of a stir at the Market Focus Session during the ECOC exhibition here in Turin. The internet search giant wants to use 100Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) inside its massive data centres, but it can’t find an optical … Continue reading
An interview with Kathleen Maiman
Twelve years after the 40th anniversary of the laser, we are celebrating its 50th. That’s only possible because the 40th anniversary was a Bell Labs’ invention based on the date of the now famous Physical Review paper describing the theory of “Infrared and optical masers”. Continue reading
Rewriting the history of the laser
Winston Churchill famously said that history is written by the victors. In the case of the laser it might be more accurate to say that history was written by those with the best public relations team. Continue reading
ECOC 2009: Technology, money, people
Here’s a copy of my leader article in the ECOC magazine: And so to Vienna for the 35th year of ECOC, which is billed — quite rightly in my view — as the leading optical networking event in Europe. Personal … Continue reading
From the show floor: CIP
This article originally appeared on the fibresystems.org blog. If there’s one company I look forward to talking to, it’s the UK’s Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP), because they always seem to have something interesting going on. At ECOC last September, … Continue reading
Intel's silicon detector is a runaway success
Intel is claiming another first for silicon photonics, with an avalanche photodiode that outperforms equivalent devices. Continue reading
100G backers divided on best approach
The industry is not united behind DP-QPSK as the modulation format of choice for 100 Gbit/s transport. Continue reading
Vendors unite to develop next generation Ethernet
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2008 issue of FibreSystems Europe magazine. The standardization of higher data rates is vital if Ethernet is to continue as a ubiquitous end-to-end protocol. Pauline Rigby finds out how standards are progressing. Ethernet … Continue reading
Cool electronics: just add water
This article originally appeared on fibresystem.org. We’ve all been taught that electronics and water don’t mix, but researchers at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory say that doesn’t have to be the case. In fact, they are proposing that tiny rivers of … Continue reading
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