"It has been a long-time dream for all optical researchers to reach the terabit per second mark, " says Kuwahara Hideo, one of the 20 researchers at the Fujitsu lab.
All-optical switches use micromirrors, which were originally developed to bounce laser beams around the surface of a silicon chip.
Now he develops such profit-seeking wares as the Lambda Router, the world's first big all-optical switch, due later this year.
Given the frantic pace of development in all-optical networks, that is likely to be a matter of months rather than years.
All-optical routers that can manipulate packets of light, pulling some signals off a fiber and sending the rest on their way, may not be widely available for years.
Infinera's optical routing gear is built around an all-in-one optical networking chip--which it calls a Photonic Integrated Circuit--that shrinks down the work done by a hodgepodge of parts in boxes from other vendors onto a pair of chips smaller than a fingernail.
Apple will be the first company to bundle an optical mouse with all its desktop systems.
HDMI, USB, S-Video, composite, coax and optical audio are all part of the 1.5-inch high and 17-inch wide unit.
This optical technology requires all sorts of complicated cameras and robotics, along with huge data files to handle the images.
Replace all of it with new optical machines that work in the realm of photons--no translation required--and fiber-optics capacity will expand even more.
The MaxxScan 6120 and 6150 scanners come integrated with both the USB and parallel port connections, and all models include Xerox TextBridge optical character recognition software.
This means more cell towers, more small cells, more Wi-Fi, more advanced technology like LTE and MIMO, more spectrum, and more Ethernet optical fiber links connecting all these wireless and data center nodes.
While the entry-level GZ-E320 misses out on the highlight mode, all five models share a 40X optical zoom, 1080p shooting from a BSI CMOS sensor, an SDXC card slot and a 3-inch touchscreen for previewing any would-be masterpieces.
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They are chemically the purest of all diamond crystals and often have extraordinary optical transparency.
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An Israeli company, dubbed Lumus-Optical, is looking to change all that by offering up a relatively normal looking set of spectacles with twin microdisplays and mini projectors.
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Unlike the Legend, it's a largely blank addition to the phone -- there's no optical trackpad this time, and all the buttons have migrated to other parts of the handset.
Optical networking equipment is almost entirely all JDSU does.
Gov. Crist said he wants to get rid of all those touch-screen machines and replace them with optical scanning systems that would read paper ballots.
Still, they're all just thick enough to accommodate a tray-loading optical drive, and the 15R and 17R also have enough room for a numpad on the keyboard.
Equipped with a 24mm ultra-wide angle LEICA DC VARIO-SUMMARIT lens, the LUMIX FH8 and LUMIX FH6 offer an incredible 5x optical zoom with f2.5 brightness, all while maintaining a stylish, and slim camera body.
Both methods can be applied to a broad selection of objects, making them ideal candidates for anti-counterfeit detection for everything from diamonds to passports -- all that's needed to verify authenticity is an optical microscope.
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Crist said he hopes to have all the state's touch-screen machines replaced by optical scan systems in time for next year's presidential election.
In any case, the same Democrats who claimed Florida was "stolen" by faulty ballot machines are now trying to discredit the optical-scanners that they have demanded -- all in order to sway the human judges who'll rule on Mr. Franken's legal challenges.
Lucent, Cisco and Nortel all keenly focus on the coming shift to IP-over-optical networking, but they hold divergent views on when and in what form it will arrive.
All eight digital camera models, available in March 2011, feature Optical Image Stabilization, High Definition video recording capabilities and Panasonic's iA mode, which makes them extremely easy-to-use to help take high-quality photos.
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It's got an optical drive, too, which we can't say of all the notebooks listed here.
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There it was, all long and thin, and I thought, let me scan it and OCR (optical character recognition) it.
"Pepper's ghost" isn't the sort of phrase you hear very often at a show like SXSW. In amongst all the latest generation technology, there aren't too many folks discussing hundreds years old optical concepts.
You're also getting a 2.5-inch LCD, VGA video at 30fps, and 16MB of onboard memory, plus, the few downsides here don't sound all that bad: below average life from the included rechargeable battery, only six steps on the optical zoom, and an Exposure Compensation setting that doesn't auto-reset are the only gripes this reviewer had.
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