IBM’s co-packaged optics offers 6X the beachfront density thanks to the use of smaller fibers with an 18-µm pitch.

The preceding chapters have presented the fundamental characteristics of individual building blocks of an optical fiber communication link and various concepts, such as WDM, for implementing links.

Optical fibers carry voice and data at high speeds across long distances, and IBM Research scientists are bringing this speed ...

In the future, equipping rooms with 'optical wireless hotspots' that enable fast free-space data transmission to laptops or mobile phones by means of light beams rather than radio waves ...