03 April, 2017

UNLOC researchers have compared the throughput gains in networks with those in point-to-point data transmissions using adaptive transceivers.

22 March, 2017

UCL PhD student, Zhe Li, has won the Corning Outstanding Student Paper competition at OFC 2017.

21 February, 2017

Optics Express, a journal of The Optical Society (OSA), published a feature issue on 20 February titled “Nonlinearity mitigation for coherent transmission systems”. UNLOC researchers contributed to 9 papers, which accounts for more than 50% of the issue as a whole.

31 March, 2017

UNLOC researchers have contributed to a new record data transmission – 6.8Tbit/s – in a type of fibre called antiresonant hollow core fibre.

13 March, 2017

Since the start of the UNLOC programme, UNLOC members have contributed to 34 papers presented at OFC. Our contribution to OFC 2017 is no exception, with another 10 papers involving UNLOC members.

20 February, 2017

Dr Lidia Galdino and colleagues have shed light on the way noise from transmitters and receivers in optical fibre communication systems interacts with the signals that carry 99% of our data. This is a new fundamental limiting factor in the capacity of optical communications.

24 March, 2017

Read all about our research highlights over 2016-17.

23 February, 2017

UNLOC researchers have performed a mini-review surveying the current progress in the application of the so-called nonlinear Fourier transform - a powerful mathematical tool - to help expedite progress in this area of research.

16 January, 2017

The Optical Society (OSA) Technical Group on Optics in Digital Systems has appointed UNLOC Senior Research Fellow Tianhua Xu as their new Chair.