Finchetto has developed a fully optical passive network switch for data centres, hyperscalers, high-performance compute and telecommunications (Credit: Finchetto) ...

Google's system leverages optical circuit switching (OCS) to create direct, low-latency optical paths between TPU chips, minimizing signal conversion losses.

By putting optics in silicon, CPO promises dramatic boosts in speed while lowering power requirements, if it can meet ...

Proven MEMS-based technology optimized for high reliability, performance, and increased AI data center scalability Lumentum R300 OCS 300x300 port product currently being sampled by multiple customers ...

Researchers are working hard around the world to try and improve the speed available for data sharing. Microsoft Research and EPFL recently demonstrated ultrafast optical switching utilizing a ...

Applications such as self-driving vehicles, 6G mobile communications and quantum communications are pushing fiber optic ...

Driven by a need to reduce power and increase bandwidth density in data center network switches and other devices, the data networking industry is moving toward adoption of co-packaged optics (CPO).

Tiered architecture details a survivability-by-design approach that uses independent optical systems for seamless, automated failover ...

All-optical switching is the modulation of signal light due to control light in such a way that it possesses the ON/OFF conversion function. In general, a light beam can be modulated with another ...

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.