tech news ᳇ eicker.news1d ago
#Corning’s shares rose 4% after announcing a multi-year deal with #Amazon to provide #opticalfibre for its U.S. #datacentres. The agreement, valued at billions of dollars, will create 1,000 jobs at Corning’s North Carolina factories and expand its fibre optic training programme. This deal, along with others with Nvidia and Meta, highlights Corning’s growing role in the AI infrastructure supply chain. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/amazon-taps-corning-for-op.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Simon ZerafaJan 21

Anyone in my timeline have working information or the equipment to do optical fiber termination? Or can you recommend someone who can do this to order? UK preferred, but EU or CA also acceptable.

I have an idea for a project that will need 0.6mm fiber lengths appropriately terminated for use with an pair of 10GbE media converters.

The media converter hardware seems fairly straightforward (any advise on that appreciated though) but getting the fiber runs assembled seems to be more tricky 😟🤷‍♂️

#OpticalFiber #OpticalFibre #MediaConverters #FTTH #UK

j_bertolottiAug 18, 2025

New paper on #ArXiv!
When (coherent) light propagates in a multimode fibre, each mode accumulates a slightly different phase, so the output looks like a random speckle patter.
But it is NOT random!
This non-randomness has a number of consequences, among them the fact that the you get predictable patterns in the apparently random output. We show that a focused input will always result in a ring of excess intensity at the same radius of the input (and suggest how this might be useful).

#Optics #OpticalFibre

tech news ᳇ eicker.newsJul 17, 2025
#Researchers in #Japan set a new world record for #internetspeed, transmitting 125,000 gigabytes of data per second over 1,120 miles. This speed, achieved using a #new type of #opticalfibre, is #4milliontimes #faster than the average US broadband speed and could address the increasing global demand for data. https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/japan-sets-new-internet-speed-record-its-4-million-times-faster-than-average-us-broadband-speeds?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Japan sets new internet speed record — it's 4 million times faster than average US broadband speeds

A team of scientists in Japan shattered the record for the fastest internet speed by developing new fiber optics.

Live Science
Kerrianne HarringtonDec 12, 2024
Presenting 'u-Care #wrapped' for our last '24 meeting! 🎁🎶 Hope they're Spotify fans 😂
🟣 #UV #opticalfibre to 190 nm https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.509212
🔅 #deep-UV generation in a hollow core fibre (HCF) https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.523673
🟢 UVA absorption in HCF https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.537473
🔬Multi-core HCF https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.543062
Torsten BlumMay 12, 2024

One of the gazillion reasons why fibre is much better than satellite based Internet: „Musk's Starlink satellites disrupted by major solar storm"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/starlink-experiencing-degraded-service-musk-says-satellites-under-pressure-2024-05-11/

If you believe this is mainly due to the unusually strong solar event of the past 2-3 days, let me remind you what happened in February 2022: "Solar storm knocks out 40 newly launched SpaceX satellites“
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/solar-storm-disables-40-newly-launched-spacex-satellites-2022-02-09/
#SolarFlare #SolarStorm #SatelliteInternet #SpaceX #FTTH #OpticalFibre