Despite the modern world relying heavily on digital optical communication, there has not been a significant improvement in the minimum attenuation—a measure of the loss of optical power per kilometer ...

Researchers from the University of Southampton in the U.K. have teamed up with fiber engineers from Microsoft Azure to reduce attenuation in optical cables, where weakened signal power leads to data ...

In the next five years, scale-up interconnects will transition from copper to optical interconnects — primarily co-packaged optics (CPO), with some near-packaged optics (NPO), and perhaps some ...