It was once the most high-tech and futuristic feature you could find: Transmit sound -- with light! Lasers! A cable not of copper, but glass! Except, it was almost never glass, and was usually ...

The several optical-dispersion terms derive from characteristics of a fiber-optic cable. They combine to smear the pulse stream and cause intersymbol interference. The current infrastructure includes ...

Plus yet more notable product and system news from this week’s optical communications expo in San Diego. Effect says it “now owns the entire optical coherent technology stack.” Viasat is a ...