Corning has created an optical fibre connector system that aligns 12 fibres in a single operation to bring data to homes. “Multifiber Pushlok is a ‘stick-and-click’ [that] allows operators to deploy more fiber in tighter spaces,” according to the company. It takes “complicated splicing tasks out of the field to help installers connect homes and businesses”. The technology has been ...
University of Sheffield spin-out Phlux has announced its first product, a family of 1,550nm avalanche photodiodes. Called Aura, the infra-red devices are built using antimony alloy modified InGaAs. “The resulting sensors can be operated with APD gains up to 120, enabling even the smallest signals above the noise floor of a connected trans-impedance amplifier to be amplified,” according to the ...
OMC has developed LEDs able to couple visible wavelengths into 1mm core polymer optical fibre, or 200 micron or larger glass optical fibre. “This latest product is suitable for laboratory equipment for research purposes, test and measurement instrumentation, and data communications in industrial and medical applications,” it said. They were initially developed as a custom product for a research which ...
Route planning has started on the pan-Arctic submarine cable that could link Europe, North America and Asia via the Northwest Passage – the latter opening as formerly permanent ice yields to climate change. The idea of the project, dubbed Far North Fiber, is to terminate in Japan, Norway and Ireland, and have branches to Alaska, Canada and Greenland (see map). ...
Amphenol Socapex has found a way to add military-grade ruggedness and waterproofing to MPO (multi-fibre push-on) optical fibre connections. Called ‘MPO Field’, it is intended to transform a standard patch-cord with MPO/MTP connectors using MT ferules. The MPO connector and patch-cord gets hand-assembled into a metallic plug based on a MIL-STD-38999 Series III, shell size 13 connector. The overall effect ...
Vehicle network speeds have come under scrutiny, says César Esteban of KDPOF, who believes optical is the engineering choice for higher data rates. With advances such as electric vehicles, automated driving and automated vehicles to everything interconnection being deployed, automotive applications, utilisation and safety requirements are boosting necessary network speeds. In-vehicle networks are on the brink of speeds from one ...
Israeli start-up CogniFiber aims to perform analogue AI calculations optically inside special multiple-core optical fibres. The many cores are shaped and spaced inside a single fibre to enhance specific interactions. “The fibre enables to perform several types of functions which are essential to neural-networks computation,” company CEO and co-founder Eyal Cohen told Electronics Weekly. “Out of many possibilities, these functions can be set ...
This post considers OM5 Fibre. For years now we have become used to fibre optics in our networks for both home broadband and work networks...
Pre-distorted modal-modulation has been used to carry over 200 channels through a 1km multi-mode fibre in the face of modal and polarisation cross-talk. In the demonstration, by the US University of Rochester, the fibre was constantly measured by a probe beam passing down the fibre in the opposite direction to the would-be data-carrying beam. At the data sending end, the probe ...
Fujikura has today launched a range of optical fibre cleavers and added the IPA2 fibre alignment method to its existing FSM-100 fibre splicer series. The cleavers, called CT-105+ (right) “feature a new clamping function which improves cleave angles by automatically detecting the optimal camping force. Alongside a 75% reduction in clamp force, there’s a 90% reduction in the consumption of ...
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