Increased Cell Phone Data Use Is Negatively Affecting Wi-Fi Performance
University of Chicago researchers find competition between networks decreases performance. If service becomes slow when you’re trying to send a quick email on your smartphone,…
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A Laser Breakthrough: First Commercially Scalable Integrated Laser and Microcomb on a Single Chip
Fifteen years ago, UC Santa Barbara electrical and materials professor John Bowers pioneered a method for integrating a laser onto a silicon wafer. The technology…
Energy Saving Electronics Breakthrough – Paving Way for a Carbon-Neutral Society
Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered a method that will allow for faster communication systems and better energy-saving electronics. The breakthrough was made…
Highly Chirped Laser Pulses Defy “Conventional Wisdom”
University of Rochester researchers describe first highly chirped pulses created by a using a spectral filter in a Kerr resonator. The 2018 Nobel Prize in…
Laser-Driven Semiconductor Switch for Next-Generation Communications
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineers have designed a new kind of laser-driven semiconductor switch that can theoretically achieve higher speeds at higher voltages than…
Quantum Communication in Space Advances
Keeping information secure in today’s interconnected world is becoming ever more important, so ESA is supporting efforts to ensure that future communications are kept confidential….
Chinese Researchers Construct a Multiplexed Quantum Repeater Based on Absorptive Quantum Memories
Chinese researchers realized an elementary link of a quantum repeater based on absorptive quantum memories (QMs) and demonstrated the multiplexed quantum repeater for the first…
A Step Closer to the Quantum Internet: Entanglement of Two Multimode Quantum Memories
ICFO researchers report in Nature on having achieved, for the first time, entanglement of two multimode quantum memories located in different labs separated by 10 meters,…
Researchers Establish the First Entanglement-Based Quantum Network
A team of researchers from QuTech in the Netherlands reports realization of the first multi-node quantum network, connecting three quantum processors. In addition, they achieved…
NASA Laser Communications: Empowering More Data Than Ever Before
Launching this summer, NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will showcase the dynamic powers of laser communications technologies. With NASA’s ever-increasing human and robotic presence…
6G and Beyond: Silicon Multiplexer Chip Will Drive Next Generation Communications
A new design of ultra-small silicon chip called a multiplexer will effectively manage terahertz waves which are key to the next generation of communications: 6G…
Advanced Quantum-Enhanced Receiver Boosts Fiber Optics Communications
Technology could avert capacity crunch by enhancing bandwidth while reducing energy consumption. Fiber optic technology is the holy grail of high-speed, long-distance telecommunications. Still, with…
Innovative Technology for Building Ultralow-Loss Integrated Photonic Circuits
Encoding information into light, and transmitting it through optical fibers lies at the core of optical communications. With an incredibly low loss of 0.2 dB/km,…
Enhanced Ceramics Could Play Pivotal Role in Advancing High-Frequency 5G Technology
Some 5G technologies are still considered the wild west in material, design development. 5G, or the fifth-generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, is touted…
OneWeb Satellite Constellation to Boost Wi-Fi on Planes – Speeds Up to 195Mbps
Flight passengers will soon be able to connect to their families and colleagues on Earth via low-orbit telecommunications satellites. Speeds will be comparable to those…
Quantum Tunneling in Graphene Advances the Age of High Speed Terahertz Wireless Communications
Scientists from MIPT, Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester have created a highly sensitive terahertz detector based on the effect of quantum-mechanical…
Next Generation Optical Fibers With 10,000 Times Lower Backscatter
Researchers from the University of Southampton and Université Laval, Canada, have successfully measured for the first time back-reflection in cutting-edge hollow-core fibers that is around…
Data Limits Could Vanish With New Optical Antennas and “Rings of Light”
New research throws wide open the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a single light source. Researchers at the University of California,…
