ODU has added its EBP (expanded beam performance) optical connection technology into its Mini-Snap Series K, Medi-Snap, ODU-Mac product ranges. “As a non-contact lens technology, EBP achieves low attenuation, virtually no cleaning or maintenance requirements and a long service life,” claimed the company, which explained: “Under normal conditions no maintenance is required – cleaning the ferrule is only necessary in ...
This one may be of interest to Gadget Masters: OMC has released a Fibre Optic Shield for use with Arduino boards...
402Tbit/s has been sent down 50km of commercial-grade optical fibre by an international team led by the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). 1,505 WDM (wavelength division multiplexed) channels were used simultaneously, spread across six optical bands spanning 37.6THz (275nm) of spectrum. Signals were boosted with six doped-fiber amplifiers, with lumped and distributed Raman-amplification, “to cover all ...
Cinch Connectivity Solutions has announced a 100Gbit/s optical transceiver, intended for tough environments including aerospace, industrial and military. H28-100G-SR4 has four transmit and four receive channels, each rated at 25.78Gbit/s. For ease of installation and replacement, the package has a square array of flat pads underneath and it mounts to a similar array on the associated PCB via a guide ...
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 ...
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