EU's Project VERTIGO demos optical links for geostationary satellites

The VERTIGO (Very High Throughput Satellite-Ground Optical link) project successfully demonstrated a high-power optical data transmission system at the Thales laboratory in Palaiseau, France. Thales Alenia Space, Thales, G&H and Leo Space Photonics R&D demonstrated the generation and transmission of optical communication signals carrying data at 25 Gbps in a controlled environment at a record breaking optical power of 97 W opening the...

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Kepler Communications raises $92M for optical satellite

Kepler Communications, a start-up based in Toronto, announced US$92 million in Series C funding to support its mission to "build the Internet for space."Kepler said it will use the funding to launch an optical data relay infrastructure in 2024, complementing its existing RF network. Kepler’s optical communications infrastructure will use two near-orthogonal planes of relay satellites in sun-synchronous orbits, with satellites in each plane continuously...

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Univ of Southampton highlights silicon electro-optical modulator

The University of Southampton's Silicon Photonics group announced the publication of its paper on "Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators" in the prestigious Nature Photonics journal. The researchers have shown that  absorption during the plasma-dispersion effect can be harnessed to enhance the performance of  silicon MOS ring modulators. The work was performed within a Prosperity Partnership project jointly...

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Thales joins European Quantum Communication Infrastructure

Thales has joined the EuroQCI initiative (European Quantum Communication Infrastructure), which aims to deploy a quantum communication infrastructure for EU member states within three years.By 2040, quantum computers could use their unprecedented computational power to decode encrypted data, incomparably threatening the security of even the best-protected communication systems. EuroQCI aims to counter that threat by developing sovereign systems to...

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SambaNova adds AWS and Google Cloud veterans to team

SambaNova, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California that is developing an enterprise AI platform announced the addition of a former AWS Managing Director and a former Google Cloud VP to its team.Richard Halkett has been appointed Chief Revenue Officer. He previously spent almost six years at Amazon Web Services (AWS), as the Managing Director and WW Lead for Innovation & Transformation Programs. Before joining AWS, he was the Global Director...

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