APPLICATIONS & RESEARCH
Physical Optics’ Zero G optical fibre tech launched to ISS
Fastweb and Infinera in 500G single-wavelength trial
Infinera and major Italian telecommunications operator, Fastweb have successfully demonstrated
at an accelerated pace, a scalable and simple network approach is required to satisfy the growing demand for bandwidth. This trial confirms the outstanding performance provided by Infinera’s innovative solution, which enables us to deliver a best-in-class customer experience at the highest transmission speeds.” Infinera’s 7300 Multi- Haul Transport Platform, mTera Universal Switching Platform and Groove 600G technology are part of Fastweb’s backbone network spanning over 650 nodes. This is designed to support the flexibility and future development and delivery of a range of programmable high-speed end-user services at 400G, 500G, and up to 600G. Infinera’s solution enables Fastweb to scale Internet exchange point capacity up to 24 Tbps. Glenn Laxdal, senior vice president, Product Line Management, Infinera says, “Our ability to introduce higher-speed transmission over existing infrastructures is a key part of our mission
500 Gbits/s (500G) single-wavelength
In Physical Optics Corporation’s first
sensing, Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), high power lasers, multi/hyperspectral imaging, atmospheric monitoring, and optical data communications.” Ranjit Pradhan , POC’s VP of Applied Technologies, commented, “It is a great honour for us to be selected as one of several scientific Station. If this experiment is successful, there are many fields that should benefit from higher quality fibre optic materials, such as telecommunications, laser surgery, and other industrial and military applications.” Physical Optics Corporation, based in Torrance, California, is a systems integrator of advanced technology, serving military and defence, homeland security, and selected commercial markets. Since its founding in 1985, POC has grown to over US$100M in revenue, with over 270 employees, including 30 PhDs and 112 engineers. Andy Stevens, CEO of Coherent Solutions says, “We are fortunate to support this innovation and are incredibly excited to work with ficonTEC on new automated test and measurement solutions for manufacturers. Our complementary product platforms and design philosophies enable rapid customisation and deployment and provide a clear upgrade path as technology advances and products evolve. For customers, this increases ROI and helps them bring new products to market faster and cheaper. Together, we will provide customers with unique products and unrivalled value and support.” experiments going to the International Space
service connectivity in a production network. The demo, the first in Italy, used Infinera’s configurable technology on the Groove platform, and spanned over 180 km on Fastweb’s low-latency long-haul backbone network, between Milan and Turin. According to the participants, the 500G single-wavelength trial demonstrated Fastweb’s capability to easily and efficiently scale its infrastructure network to meet the increasing bandwidth demands of its end-user customers. The trial was implemented over Fastweb’s existing optical infrastructure without special amplifiers, tuning, or changes. “Providing our customers with resilient, high-quality, and innovative solutions is in Fastweb’s DNA,” said Andrea Lasagna, chief technology officer, Fastweb. “As the market for high- performance long-haul transport continues to grow ficonTEC Service GmbH of Achim, Germany, and Coherent Solutions Ltd. of Auckland, New Zealand, have entered into a collaborative partnership to advance electro-optical measurement capability for use in volume testing within the manufacturing cycle of integrated photonic devices (PICs). According to Ignazio Piacentini, business development director at ficonTEC, “Wafer-level testing of PICs differs substantially from that of conventional semiconductor wafers and requires the integration of three major ingredients: Firstly, high- accuracy, sub–µm optical
space-based optical fibre manufacturing project, an engineering prototype developed by its Applied Technologies Division was this month launched into orbit to meet the International Space Station (ISS). This NASA-sponsored advanced materials research study is intended to evaluate the feasibility of producing high-quality, manufacturing environment is believed to eliminate the defects in the manufacturing process that occur on Earth, said POC.The elimination of these defects should increase the transmission characteristics of these fibres by a factor of 10, says the company. Such optical fibres will provide what POC calls a “a unique optical transmission spectrum and have potential use in space-based applications such as remote environment. As ficonTEC’s PCM (ProcessControlMaster) software is also based around LabVIEW, integration of the two is seamless and enables the creation of sophisticated and fully-automated test solutions to match individual requirements. Alternatively, to achieve the same goal within non-LabVIEW and alternative instrumentation environments, Coherent measurement capability in a range of compact, modular benchtop and IOT-focused test equipment that can be equally well interfaced to ficonTEC’s process control software. increased bandwidth optical fibres in zero gravity. A zero gravity- Solutions additionally offers the same optical
to help our customers to effectively meet their increasing bandwidth needs.”
Mixed-signal electro-optical measurements for integrated photonics
positioning with fast-active alignment capabilities. Secondly, some form of combined electro-optical probe head, and thirdly, modular high-channel- count instrumentation. ficonTEC and Coherent Solutions already provide the necessary capabilities for the first and last ingredients, and together we are actively researching electrical/optical probe head concepts.” Coherent Solutions’ broad portfolio of photonic test and measurement instruments includes a line-up of modules for the popular PXI platform that leverage
National Instruments’ established LabVIEW graphical programming
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