Sentences with phrase «optical fibre»

This requires the replacement of conventional carriers such as copper wires with optical fibre cables, it means new switches, and new software to control the unprecedented large flows of information across borders.

They then fed pulses of light into that brain region through a fine optical fibre to activate the genes.

Key to the success of the group's apparatus is a 3 - meter - long, hollow - core optical fibre, which is coated on the inside with a reflective film.

The laser processing technique has been developed for their silicon optical fibre platform.

The holder did not invent optical fibre, but simply applied for a patent on the idea of using it for video.

It isn't possible to speed up the flashes of light that stream through the global network of optical fibres at around 200 million metres per second.

The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid relies on dedicated optical fibre networks to distribute data from CERN2 to eleven major computer centres in Europe, North America and Asia.

Polina Bayvel of University College London presented a tool to compensate for distortion in optical fibres at high power.

The 2dF, which will be opened at Siding Spring in November, splits light from 400 target galaxies onto optical fibres for analysis and identification.

One of his last projects with Creo was to invent a cross-connect optical switch for the transfer of data through optical fibre.

Published in the journal Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, the researchers describe a novel optical fibre sensor which can detect explosives in concentrations as low as 6.3 ppm (parts per million).

MaRS Discovery District and the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) have agreed to collaborate and to connect the MaRS facilities with an ultra high - speed optical fibre connection to Ontario's advanced, fully optical R&E network.

Dynamic operation of optical fibres beyond the single - mode regime facilitates the orientation of biological cells.

For example, one patent holder claims rights over the idea of sending video signals down optical fibres.

The interior of the ELEGANCE and AVANTGARDE models features discreet yet effective lighting: thin optical fibres located behind the trim elements on the dashboard and above the door centre panels create a harmonious band of light running around the inside of the car, ensuring that the feeling of high quality and interior space can be experienced at night as well as during the day.

Up to 12x improvement in execution speed, Up to 10x latency reduction with additional optical fibre connections to Interbank Servers in New York.

Their device makes a copy of the attenuated incoming signal, and «mixes» it with a laser beam in a length of specially designed optical fibre.

With optogenetics, researchers can implant optical fibres to control genetically modified animals — could gene therapy bring it to humans?

Now curved displays can be made while the device is being 3D printed — thanks to a way of printing optical fibres developed by Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Another advantage of optical fibre communication systems is that transmissions can not easily be intercepted and are not disturbed by lower atmospheric and stratospheric disturbances.

Optical fibres connecting the continents provide the capability to transmit substantially larger amounts of information than other systems of international telecommunications.

Illuminated LED optical fibres in electric blue produce a light show with exciting touches of colour.

A new method of making packets of light that don't echo inside optical fibres could be used to improve everything from medical imaging to laser comms

Three minute holes at the core of specially manufactured optical fibres are coated with the plastic or polymer material in a thin layer.

Eric Betzig and his team at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey squeezed the laser beam by directing it down an aluminium - coated optical fibre which had been tapered to a fine point.

One of the most exciting prospects for this booming area of topological photonics would be to use crystals to create optical fibres that allow light to go in only one direction.

To mimic this, Leonhardt's team fired laser pulses into a specially fabricated optical fibre.

Steven Manos, a computer scientist at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and who won a GECCO award for a novel broadband optical fibre designed with GAs, agrees.

The best developed application is in the hard - headed activity of handling money: quantum cryptography, which uses entanglement and inherent quantum randomness to send encoded data over optical fibres, has been used to safely transfer funds in Switzerland and...

It has been shown to hold for photons beamed over 144 kilometres between two of the Canary Islands, and over 18 kilometres in commercial optical fibres.

Cloaked messages were so secret no one could read them — now they can sneak along optical fibres before being revealed

In its bid to give optical fibre a higher priority, the committee rounded up all the usual suspects: «two - way TV, home shopping and banking, interactive education and training programmes, immediate medical diagnosis and interactive healthcare, and advanced data services to business... `

The technology uses a miniature optical fibre encased within a customised clinical needle to deliver a brief pulse of light which generates ultrasonic pulses.

A second innovation was the development of highly sensitive optical fibre sensors based on polymer optical microresonators for detecting the ultrasound waves.

Using inexpensive optical fibres, we have been able to achieve high resolution imaging using needle tips under 1 mm.

Reflections of these ultrasonic pulses from tissue are detected by a sensor on a second optical fibre, giving real - time ultrasound imaging to guide surgery.

Instead, Katharina Predehl of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and colleagues received a laser signal they had sent through 920 kilometres of optical fibre from an optical clock at Germany's national metrology institute (PTB) in Braunschweig.

Using hollow - core optical fibre as a sensitive gas cell, researchers in Japan have devised a relatively simple and affordable sensor for monitoring biomarkers in human breath at low concentrations.

«The photons can be sent over long distances via optical fibres, where they whiz through the fibres with very little loss.

Also, because optical fibres work in both directions, touching the surface reflects light back to the hidden display — meaning it acts as a touchscreen too.

Optical fibres then relay the picture to a curved surface.

This property could prove useful in applications involving optical fibres and lasers.

In the early 2000's, the first extremely broad «supercontinum» spectrum was demonstrated by spectral broadening of short laser pulses in a micro-structured optical fibre.

The proposal dovetails with an existing plan by the domestic telephone company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone to extend optical fibre links to every household by the year 2015.

The US President's plans aim unashamedly to increase the amount of research and development done in industry — pumping money into technology transfer, the conversion of defence enterprises to commercial production, and beginning plans for a nationwide optical fibre data network.

«With a single optical fibre, 10 million telephone circuits and 10 000 image circuits can be handled at one time,» says NTT.

This approach has the additional cost - saving benefit of using the same optical fibre for both upstream and downstream data.

They then fed pulses of light into this circuit through a fine optical fibre while female voles were housed with — but did not mate with — males.

Combining techniques used to produce light - bending metamaterials with those used to make optical fibres might just do the trick.