Fibre technology plays a vital role in high-speed data communication across telecom, data centers, and smart infrastructure. Optical fibre enables low-latency, high-bandwidth performance critical for 5G, IoT, and cloud services. Innovations in transceivers, amplifiers, and connectors improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability. Manufacturers are developing ruggedized, high-density fibre components for harsh environments and compact installations. Electronics Weekly reports on global fibre deployment trends, standardization efforts, and component design evolution. From edge networks to hyperscale data centers, fibre is foundational to electronics system integration and communication reliability. Stay connected with the latest fibre news shaping next-gen electronics infrastructure and high-performance networking worldwide.
Origami-like construction is a novel technology for objects that need to be stored and shipped in a compact form, and then folded out into strong 3D structures. Towards optimising such structures, researchers at Pusan National University in Korea have found a way to make a monolithic pre-object flat-pack by defining stiff flat parts and flexible hinges in stacked sheets of ...
TiniFiber is making pre-terminated MPO (multi-fiber push on) cable assemblies from its’ Micro Armor’ optical fibre cable. The cable “assemblies are tested and verified to meet standards including IEC 61754-7 and EIA/TIA-604-5 (FOCIS 5), which specify a connector’s physical attributes as well as performance, and ensure inter-mating across all complying cables and connectors”, according to the company. Armour in the ...
OMC has launched a fibre optic transceiver shield for Arduino Uno, designed to work with PMMA (polymer) optical cables up to 25m long, plus demonstration software. Operation is possible at 300, 600, 1,200, 2,400, 4,800, 9,600, 14,400, 19,200, 28,800, 38,400, 57,600 or 115,200bit/s. “The actual fibre optic emitter and receiver pair can operate up to 5M baud – the shield ...
OMC has created a family of key-coded SMA fibre optic connectors, with 50 or more different orientations. Clockface-style multiple keyways are used (photo right) and each gets a number on it to aid identification. For more unique connections, custom keyway positions are also possible on request. “Originally designed in response to a customer request for a keyed connector for a ...
Perle Systems has introduced industrial grade real-time managed Ethernet switches with both fibre and copper ports, in a 45 x 93 x 109mm DIN rail mount package. “This represents a significant advancement in network infrastructure for industrial environments,” claimed the company. “The two 1000Base-X fiber connectors can extend Gigabit Ethernet operating distances over fibre up to 160km.” The fan-less units come ...
OMC has developed LEDs able to couple visible wavelengths into 1mm core polymer optical fibre, or 200 micron or larger glass optical fibre. “This latest product is suitable for laboratory equipment for research purposes, test and measurement instrumentation, and data communications in industrial and medical applications,” it said. They were initially developed as a custom product for a research which ...
Wind turbine blades can be recycled, at least partially, accoriding to researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark. The chemical process disassembles epoxy composite, releasing intact glass fibres and extracting one of the chemical component of the resin. Both are as good as new materials, according to the university, which added that the process could also be used with some materials ...
Route planning has started on the pan-Arctic submarine cable that could link Europe, North America and Asia via the Northwest Passage – the latter opening as formerly permanent ice yields to climate change. The idea of the project, dubbed Far North Fiber, is to terminate in Japan, Norway and Ireland, and have branches to Alaska, Canada and Greenland (see map). ...
Beijing University of Technology has created red-green-blue lasing using three optical fibres coated with dye-doped polymer. Each whispering gallery fibre supports multiple lasing modes, with their colour defined by brushing on dye-doped polymer ink. Before weaving together, each fibre has a lower excitation threshold of 19.1μJ/cm2, narrowest spectral line width of 0.045nm and Q (quality factor) of 104, according to ...
Aiming at data centres, Ranovus and AMD are demonstrating 800Gbit/s optical comms at OFC 2022. The optical interface and its fibres, emerging from under the aluminium block The optical module co-packages Xilinx Versal ACAP (adaptive compute acceleration platform) and Ranovus’ Odin 800Gbit/s ‘CPO 2.0′ module. Odin is a protocol agnostic optical engine build around Ranovus’ 100Gbit/s/λ monolithic electro-photonic IC and laser ...
