Kenya plans to expand its terrestrial fibre optic cable network by the end of June 2012 in order to link the central government with all the counties, Business Daily reported. The national fibre optic infrastructure has reached so far 37 out of a total of...
Weekly: EMCORE hits year-low
EMCORE Corporation (EMCORE) is a provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and terrestrial solar power markets. The Company has two reporting segments: Fiber Optics and Photovoltaics. Fiber Optics segment offers optical components, subsystems, and systems that enable the...
Reclamation Announces Decision on Salt Wells Geothermal
he U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: The Bureau of Reclamation has signed a Record of Decision for the Final Environmental Impact Statement on the impacts of issuing a 20-year license authorizing a 22 mile overhead 230kV electric...
Optical Cable strengthens 0.3% on low volume
Optical Cable Corporation, is a manufacturer of fiber optic cables primarily sold into the enterprise market, and the manufacturer of military ground tactical fiber optic cable for the United States Military. The Company sells its products worldwide for uses ranging from commercial and campus installations...
A Single Cell Endoscope
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release: An endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single living cell, or precisely deliver genes, proteins, therapeutic drugs or other cargo without injuring or damaging the...
MGTS to invest 50 billion rubles in Moscow GPON network by 2014
Russian wireline operator Moscow City Telephone Company (MGTS) plans to invest 50 billion rubles into the development of a network built using Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology by 2015, the company’s Marketing Director Roman Plyachenko said late Tuesday. MGTS plans to invest its own...
Opnext drops 4.5% on high volatility
Opnext (OPXT.O), NASDAQ’s 11th largest lasers systems & components company by market capitalisation, traded between an intraday low of 83.03c and a high of 92.0c, suggesting a trading opportunity between peaks and troughs. The average daily volatility of 7.5% places the stock in the 1st...
Yenista Optics releases ultra-narrow tunable filter
In the development of next-generation 100-Gbps transmission systems, the need has emerged for extremely narrow tunable filters used in the investigation of new modulation formats and their sub-bands. Yenista Optics says it has responded to this need by developing an ultrafine option for its XT...
Leoni assumes full control of j-fiber
German fiber and cable maker Leoni reveals it purchased all the shares of fiber maker j-fiber GmbH at the end of last year. Leoni had acquired 51 percent of j-fiber, located in Jena, in 2007. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. j-fiber will operate...
Anritsu unveils multi-channel BERT with up to 32 Gbps on four channels
Anritsu Co. has introduced 28G/32G multi-channel modules for its MP1800A Signal Quality Analyzer (SQA) BERT system. The new capabilities will aid equipment designers evaluate interconnect interfaces up to 32 Gbps. Among other applications, the new capabilities will play well in dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying (DP-QPSK)...
