News digest

July 11, 2006

FTTH Council Asia Pacific 1st Annual Conference and Exhibtion is being held in Makuhari Chiba, Japan. [2007/7/11]

June 30, 2006

UCLA Engineering Announces Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices [UCLA news, 2007/6/28]

March 15, 2006

Oki Electric Succeeds in World's First 160Gb/s Data Transmission Trial over a Distance of 635km. [Oki Electric press release, 2006/3/15]

March 9, 2006

Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Announces Further Breakthrough in 100 Gigabit per Second Ethernet-Over-Optical. [Lucent Technologies press release, 2006/3/8]

Japan Telecom and Lucent Technologies Conduct Successful Trial of 40 Gigabit-Per-Second (40gbps) Optical Transmission System. [Lucent Technologies press release, 2006/3/7] See also Lightwave's article, which provide the the detailed information.

March 7, 2006

Oki Electric Launches 40Gb/s Electro Absorption Modulated Laser. [OKI press release, 2006/3/7]

Oki Electric Develops World's First CDM-on-Fiber, Achieving Bidirectional, Same Wavelength Data Transmission without Optical Amplifier for a Transmission Distance of Over 100km. [OKI press release, 2006/3/6]

March 6, 2006

AT&T, BellSouth to Merge [AT&T press release, 2006/3/6]

The number of contructs for FTTH services in Japan exceeds 4.64 million (a growth rate of 91 %/yr), which accounts for 20.8% of the total number of broadband service subscribers (as of Dec. 2005). [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, 2006/3/3].
At present this news is available only in Japanese, but English press release will be issued soon, I think (lol).

March 3, 2006

Ciena CEO cites network convergence, flexibility as key market trends [Lightwave, 2006/3/2]

Lumics introduces 0.8-mJ pulsed fiber laser [Laser Focus World, 2006/3/2]
See also Lumics page.

Leonberger receiving IEEE award for fiberoptic achievements.
see also IEEE webpage. [Laser Focs World, 2006/3/2]