What Is 5G? An Electrical Engineer Explains the Technology
5G stands for fifth-generation cellular network technology. It’s the technology that enables wireless communication – for example, from your cellular phone to a cell tower,…
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UK Space Agency Funds Development of New Laser-Based Satellite Communications System
The UK Space Agency has awarded almost £650,000 to Northumbria University to continue world-leading work to develop the first commercially available laser-based inter-satellite communications system….
Helping Next-Generation 5G Cell Technology See Past the Trees
Measurements of trees’ impact on 5G transmissions could prove vital to using a new class of signal. As 5G technology gets fully implemented over the…
The World’s First Optical Oscilloscope – Game-Changing Innovation for Communication Technologies
The innovation could be a game-changer for communication technologies, such as phones and internet connections. A team from UCF has developed the world’s first optical…
NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration – Bringing Optical Speeds to the Final Frontier
Our televisions and computer screens display news, movies, and shows in high-definition, allowing viewers a clear and vibrant experience. Fiber optic connections send laser light…
NASA’s Laser Communication Relay Demonstration: Getting Space Data to the Ground With Lasers
NASA launches satellites, rovers, and orbiters to investigate humanity’s place in the Milky Way. When these missions reach their destinations, their science instruments capture images,…
A Nanoantenna for Long-Distance, Ultra-Secure Quantum Communication
Researchers from Osaka University have improved the transfer efficiency between quantum information carriers, in a manner that’s based on well-established nanoscience and is compatible with…
NASA’s Revolutionary Laser Communications Mission: 6 Things You Need To Know
NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will use laser communications systems to transmit data from space to Earth. Below are six things you need to…
Superconducting Silicon-Photonic Chip Developed for Quantum Communication
Researchers resolve a long-standing challenge in quantum optics: optimal Bell-state measurement of time-bin encoded qubits, to enhance the key rate of secure quantum communication. Integrated…
Nuclear Radiation “Fast Neutrons” Used To Transmit Digital Data Wirelessly
Engineers have successfully transferred digitally encoded information wirelessly using nuclear radiation instead of conventional technology. Radio waves and mobile phone signals rely on electromagnetic radiation…
Student Cracks the High-Dimensional Quantum Code – Reveals Hidden Structures of Quantum Entangled States
A new and fast tool for quantum computing and communication. Isaac Nape, an emerging South African talent in the study of quantum optics, is part…
NASA’s High Bandwidth Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Gears Up for Launch
NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) is gearing up for launch this fall, no earlier than November 22. The payload arrived in Florida in May,…
Topological Circuits That Force Photons To Never Bounce Back
EPFL scientists have developed a topology-based method that forces microwave photons to travel along a path, despite unprecedented levels of disorder and obstacles on their…
New Chip Can Decode Any Type of Data Sent Across a Network
New chip eliminates the need for specific decoding hardware, could boost efficiency of gaming systems, 5G networks, the internet of things, and more. Every piece…
ARROW: Who Can Bend Light for Cheaper Internet?
ARROW, a reconfigurable fiber optics network developed at MIT, aims to take on the end of Moore’s law. Wide Area Networks (WANs), the global backbones…
NASA Engineers Work To Give Satellite Swarms a Hive Mind
Swarms of small satellites could communicate with one another to collect data on important weather patterns at different times of the day or year, and…
Researchers Around the World Are Buzzing About a Candidate Superconductor Created at Quantum Foundry
An Exciting New Material Since receiving a $25 million grant in 2019 to become the first National Science Foundation (NSF) Quantum Foundry, UC Santa Barbara…
Eutelsat Quantum: Revolutionary Reprogrammable “Chameleon” Satellite Launched
A sophisticated telecommunications satellite that can be completely repurposed while in space has launched. Developed under an ESA Partnership Project with satellite operator Eutelsat and…
