Tag: Optical
Need For Bandwidth Drives Demand for Active Optical Cables, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
San Jose, California (PRWEB) January 09, 2015 Follow us on LinkedIn – Active Optical Cables present an integral part of contemporary data communication platforms. Defined as a cabling solution that provides electrical to optical conversion on cable ends for improved speed and distance efficiency, active optical cables are witnessing tremendous growth. The ever-growing need for […]
Idealstor WORM Disk and Appliance Make Optical Jukeboxes Obsolete
Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 20, 2014 Idealstor announced today the release of a removable 6TB Write-Once, Read-Many (WORM) disk for use in their four- or eight-bay WORM Appliances. This new disk is an increase of 33 percent capacity over previous generations of WORM disks and can yield a staggering 48TB of raw data. Idealstor encourages […]
Creating Optical Cables Out of Thin Air at the University of Maryland
College Park, MD (PRWEB) July 22, 2014 Imagine being able to instantaneously run an optical cable or fiber to any point on earth, or even into space. That’s what Howard Milchberg, professor of physics and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maryland, wants to do. In a paper published in the July […]
Kingslake Medal Awarded for Optical Engineering Paper On New Tunable Microlens
Bellingham, Washington (PRWEB) July 07, 2014 Wei Zhang of the National University of Singapore and Hans Zappe and Andreas Seifert of the University of Freiburg have been selected as the 2013 winners of the Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize for their paper titled “Polyacrylate membranes for tunable liquid-filled microlenses.” The Kingslake Medal is awarded annually […]