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The Fabrication Process Inside a Photonic Foundry

The Fabrication Process Inside a Photonic Foundry

Photonics is one of the enabling technologies of the future. Light is the fastest information…

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Data Center Interconnects: Coherent or Direct Detect?

Article first published 15 June 2022, updated 18 May 2023. With the increasing demand for…

What’s an ITLA and Why Do I Need One?

Shining a Light on Four Tunable Lasers

The world is moving towards tunability. Datacom and telecom companies may increase their network capacity…

Integrated Quantum Photonics

The Promise of Integrated Quantum Photonics

Today’s digital society depends heavily on securely transmitting and storing data. One of the oldest…

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The Future of Coherent Transceivers in the Access

The demand for data and other digital services is rising exponentially. From 2010 to 2020,…

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One Watt Matters

Data centers and 5G networks might be hot commodities, but the infrastructure that enables them…

Networks Go Coherent

When will the Network Edge go Coherent?

Article first published 27 July 2022, updated 12 April 2023. Network carriers want to provide…

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Enabling a 100ZR Ecosystem

Given the success of 400ZR pluggable coherent solutions in the market, discussions in the telecom…

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What DSPs Does the Cloud Edge Need?

By storing and processing data closer to the end user and reducing latency, smaller data…

Artificial intelligence

Transceivers in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) will have a significant role in making optical networks more scalable, affordable,…

Photonic technology more available to all Industries

Coherent Optics In Space

When it started, the space race was a competition between two superpowers, but now there…

Designing in the Great Lakes

Designing in the Great Lakes

Last year, EFFECT Photonics announced the acquisition of the coherent optical digital signal processing (DSP)…

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What Tunable Lasers Does the Network Edge Need?

Several applications in the optical network edge would benefit from upgrading from 10G to 100G…

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What DSPs Does the Network Edge Need?

Operators are strongly interested in 100G pluggables that can house tunable coherent optics in compact,…

Pluggables have becomes mainstream in datacom applications.

A Story of Standards: From 400ZR and Open ROADM to OpenZR+

Coherent optical transmission has been crucial in addressing network operator problems for the last decade. In this time, coherent technology has expanded from a solution reserved only for premium long-distance links to one that impacts data center interconnects, metro, and access networks…

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The Impact of Optics and Photonics on the Agrifood Industry

Precision farming is essential in a world with over 10 billion people by 2050 and…

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The Whats and Hows of Telcordia Standards

Before 1984, the world of telecom standards looked very different from how it does now.…

Trends in Edge Networks

To see what is trending in the edge and access networks, we look at recent…

100ZR Future for Access Networks

Reaching a 100ZR Future for Access Network Transport

In the optical access networks, the 400ZR pluggables that have become mainstream in datacom applications…

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Remote Provisioning and Management for Edge Networks

Smaller data centers near the end user can reduce latency, overcome inconsistencies in connectivity, and…

What is 100ZR and Why Does it Matter

What is 100ZR and Why Does it Matter?

In June 2022, transceiver developer II‐VI Incorporated (now Coherent Corp.) and optical networking solutions provider…

Fit for Platform DSPs

Fit for Platform DSPs

Over the last two decades, power ratings for pluggable modules have increased as we moved…

The Power of Integrated Photonic LIDAR

The Power of Integrated Photonic LIDAR

Outside of communications applications, photonics can play a major role in sensing and imaging applications.…

How To Make a Photonic Integrated Circuit

How To Make a Photonic Integrated Circuit

Photonics is one of the enabling technologies of the future. Light is the fastest information…

What’s an ITLA and Why Do I Need One?

What’s an ITLA and Why Do I Need One?

The tunable laser is a core component of every optical communication system, both direct detect…

What are FEC and PCS, and Why do They Matter

What are FEC and PCS, and Why do They Matter?

Coherent transmission has become a fundamental component of optical networks to address situations where direct…

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The Light Path to a Coherent Cloud Edge

Smaller data centers placed locally have the potential to minimize latency, overcome inconsistent connections, and…

Leveraging Electronic Ecosystems in Photonics

Leveraging Electronic Ecosystems in Photonics

Thanks to wafer-scale technology, electronics have driven down the cost per transistor for many decades.…

The Evolution to 800G and Beyond

The demand for data and other digital services is rising exponentially. From 2010 to 2020,…

Day of Photonics 2022, Photonics FAQ

Day of Photonics 2022, Photonics FAQ

On October 21st, 1983, the General Conference of Weights and Measures adopted the current value…

Coherent technology can give free-space optical systems greater reach and capacity, enabling these new applications in space and terrestrial links.

Coherent Free Space Optics for Ground and Space Applications

In a previous article, we described how free-space optics (FSO) could impact mobile fronthaul and…

What’s Inside a Tunable Laser for Coherent Systems?

The world is moving towards tunability. The combination of tunable lasers and dense wavelength division…

The Growing Photonics Cluster of the Greater Boston Area

The Growing Photonics Cluster of the Boston Area

As they lighted the candles in their ship, the Pilgrim families traveling on the Mayflower…
We interview Russell Fuerst, our VP of Digital Signal Processing.

The Future of Coherent DSP Design: Interview with Russell Fuerst

Digital signal processors (DSPs) are the heart of coherent communication systems. They not only encode/decode…

The Future of Passive Optical Networks

Like every other telecom network, cable networks had to change to meet the growing demand…

How Many DWDM Channels Do You Really Need?

Optical fiber and dense wavelength division multiplex (DWDM) technology are moving towards the edges of…

Technologies and trends and their impact

Scaling Up Live Event Coverage with 5G Technology

Everyone who has attended a major venue or event, such as a football stadium or…

What’s Inside a Coherent DSP?

What’s Inside a Coherent DSP?

Coherent transmission has become a fundamental component of optical networks to address situations where direct…

The Next Bright Lights of Eindhoven

Paris may be the more well-known City of Light, but we may argue that Eindhoven…