Low-power optical device achieves around 100 times amplification using just a couple of hundred milliwatts of input power ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Within optical microchips, light finds its way through channels, waveguides, made of silicon. Light from a glass fiber, for example, is led through a structure of optical channels with splitters and ...

As the amount of information being electronically shuttled around the planet continues to grow, so does the need for effective means of relaying it. The use of optical fibers has definitely helped in ...

Microstructure Fibers (MFs) have received a lot of attention owing to the high nonlinearity that results from their very small effective core area. Consequently, all the nonlinear effects that are ...

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 ...

LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”) today announced the introduction of a new optical amplifier product line in support of free space optical (FSO) communications ...

Recent developments in nonlinear optics have led to the discovery of a new class of ultrashort pulse, the ‘optical similariton’. Optical similaritons arise when the interaction of nonlinearity, ...