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Fibre network for Dominican Republic?
The Dominican Republic is gearing up to develop a national fibre optic network, according to the
Caribbean country’s telecoms regulator Indotel. The development is aimed at improving internet speeds
across the country as well as providing better and faster telephone and cable services. A spokesperson for Indotel told Dominican Today: ‘This network could be compared with a major highway, where all kinds of cars travel at high speeds.’ ‘The installation of this dorsal network with fibre optic
technology would cost US$62 million (RD$2.7 billion), of which US$30 million being negotiated with the World Bank and US$32 million are Dominican matching funds.’
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Tyndall luminary wins optoelectronics prize
Eoin O’Reilly, head of theory, modelling and design at Ireland’s Tyndall National Institute has been named as a winner of the prestigious 2014 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics. O’Reilly received the award for his
pioneering work on strained-layer laser structures, which today underpin all optical fibre communication, from long-haul to local area networks, and act as power sources for optical amplifiers – making undersea networks possible. He was honoured as one of four luminary scientists who challenged the widely accepted orthodoxy of the 1980s that semiconductor lasers should be strain-free. The scientists also predicted the benefits of incorporating one strained layer or more in the active regions of
semiconductor lasers, thus creating an ideal band structure. The Rank Prize Fund recognised
O’Reilly’s contribution while also honouring his co-researcher at University of Surrey, Alfred Adams and independent work by Eli Yablonovitch at Bell Communications Research and by Gordon Osbourn at Sandia National Laboratories. In challenging the orthodoxy, the researchers’ innovations and use of strained structures reduced threshold currents and increased efficiency and output power. Their work has also maximised
operating frequency while decreasing linewidth and frequency chirp, and enabled a wide range of laser wavelengths to be accessed that would not otherwise be possible.
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