From GEO, LCRD will enable two years of continuous high data rate optical communications tests.
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This is the wavelength of the infra-red light normally used in optical communications.
The important thing is learning whether in principle a more stable mode of optical quantum communications are possible.
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The computer maker on Wednesday is discussing its advances in making optical-communications components from silicon, the mainstay material used in conventional computer chips.
Next year, NASA is to launch a demonstration mission to test optical laser communications in conjunction with the LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) mission to the moon.
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It was Irving Gerstein, a Conservative Party leader, who asked Mr. Hilton if he would consider leaving his job as chief financial officer of Enablence Technologies, an optical-communications manufacturer, to join Canada's Conservative Party as executive director.
The team is already thinking of applications for metamaterials as read-heads for future generations of hard-disk drives or optical modulators for communications.
Marconi was moving heavily into broadband communications equipment and optical switches at the cutting edge of technology.
Companies now are racing to make the components faster and drive the cost much lower, so that optical connections can also accelerate communications inside and among PCs and consumer-electronics devices.
Unlike other venture firms that suffered from the market collapse, NEA managed to avoid huge losses in its public portfolio companies by staying clear of dot-com retailers and focusing on communications services and optical components.
Optical technologies have revolutionized long-distance communications, replacing low-capacity copper wiring that carries electrical signals with combinations of lasers and fiber-optic cabling that send information over many high-speed channels.
This is one reason why optical fibres are replacing electricity-carrying copper wires for communications.
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