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Lightwave Logic receives U.S. patents for polymer modulator photonic integration

The patents, Numbers 10,509,164 and 10,511,146, cover the integration of lasers with polymer devices, such as the company’s modulators, to create an optical transmitter.

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Inphi sampling COLORZ II QSFP-DD optical transceiver for 400ZR data center interconnect

The QSFP-DD pluggable optical coherent transceiver targets 400ZR data center interconnect (DCI) and similar applications. It leverages Inphi’s recently unveiled Canopus coherent DSP, which opens the door for support of 400ZR+ applications as well.

ICP spending has taken a nose dive over the last several quarters -- but picked up in Q3, according to LightCounting.

LightCounting has eight reasons optical component vendors should enjoy the holidays

What’s the matter, bunky? Feeling down that Ethernet optical transceivers sales showed their first year-on-year revenue declines since 2009? LightCounting says you should cheer up -- and has eight reasons why.

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Optoscribe offers OptoArray fiber alignment arrays

The company asserts the fiber alignment arrays reduce optical circuit loss through the alignment precision they enable.

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Prysmian intros BendBrightXS 180µm bend-insensitive single-mode fiber

As the name implies, the bend-insensitive fiber features a diameter of 180 µm, slightly narrower than the wave of 200-µm fibers that have reached the market over the past several years.

The programmable Silicon One chip family is designed to support a variety of switching and routing applications and implementation strategies.

Cisco builds Internet for the Future approach on silicon, optics, and software

The company underscored its intention to continue to innovate within the silicon, optics, and software arenas and bring these innovations to market along diverse avenues from the chip to systems level.

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CompoundTek teams with Cadence, Lumerical on process design kit for silicon photonics applications

The PDK enables an electronic-photonic design automation (EPDA) flow, says CompoundTek.

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Huawei, BT Ireland conduct 1.2-Tbps live network trial

The 1.2-Tbps trial occurred over a link between a pair of data centers in Dublin.

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German OptiCON project seeks 10X increase in fiber network capacity

The OptiCON effort will explore such areas as unused optical spectrum, new types of fiber types, and novel transmission schemes in search of pathways toward greater optical network capacity.

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Lumentum to sell certain Lithium Niobate based product lines to AFR

The assets, developed and manufactured by Lumentum's site in San Donato, Italy, site, are part of the company’s previously discontinued Telecom and Datacom product lines.

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Etisalat, Huawei test OSN 9800 P32C optical cross-connect platform

Huawei describes the OSN 9800 P32C as a compact platform that can be used in optical backbones or in the aggregation layer to support mesh network architectures.

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Inphi sampling Canopus DSP for pluggable coherent 400G applications

The 7-nm coherent DSP is designed to enable the development of QSFP-DD, OSFP, and CFP2-DCO pluggable optical transceivers for various 400-Gbps applications, including 400ZR and 400ZR+.

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OIF resets board of directors, launches network operator survey on coherent optics

The OIF Network Operators Working Group has revealed plans to conduct a survey of global operators regarding next-generation coherent optics application requirements, features, and timing.

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An OIF Overview

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