Researchers in Sweden have demonstrated an optical amplifier which can amplify light with extremely low noise. The breakthrough enables a reach increase for optical fiber signals from e.g. 1000 km to ...

An advanced technology often languishes as “a solution looking for a problem” until it eventually meets up with a corresponding problem that's looking for a solution. Optical amplifiers and ...

Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers (EDFAs) represent a cornerstone in modern optical communications, offering high gain amplification across the C- and L-bands. These devices leverage the unique energy ...

Scientists have developed a compact optical amplifier based on a photonic chip that vastly outperforms traditional optical amplifiers in both bandwidth and efficiency. This breakthrough could reshape ...

The amplifier developed by Chalmers researchers is compact, measuring just a few centimeters, yet it can process ten times larger amounts of data per second than current optical communication systems.

Addressing a long-standing challenge in photonic integrated circuit design, researchers demonstrate that a miniature erbium-doped waveguide amplifier provides efficient and high-power optical ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Corporation (President and CEO: Akira Shimada, “NTT”) has succeeded in the world’s fastest 1 optical transmission experiment of digital coherent 2 optical signals exceeding ...

The continually increasing data traffic across the globe is placing greater demands on the capacity of communication systems. A research team from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, has ...