Telecom operators are eager to update their vast under-tapped pool of fiber connectivity resources to help power – and profit ...

Rakuten Mobile’s 4G and 5G commercial networks have seen deployment of a power saving solution from Nokia designed for optical transmission. The solution is made for optical transmission equipment ...

Researchers created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what low-index materials can do in photonics. (Nanowerk News) Glass has been a ...

The DARPA Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a ...

Researchers have developed a chip-scale optical wireless system that delivers ultra-fast data speeds while ...

Commercialization has started for network switches based on co-packaged optics (CPO), which are capable of routing signals at terabits per second speeds, but manufacturing challenges remain regarding ...

AI networks are under pressure. Can new optical chips cut power and speed up data? How do they work, and what changes for large systems?

The rapid scaling of AI workloads is forcing a fundamental rethink of how data moves inside and between data centers, with ...

NTT Inc. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) conducted an optical wireless power transmission experiment using a laser beam to wirelessly transmit energy over a distance of one kilometer. By ...