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Following Group Gorgé’s acquisition of iXblue last month, ECA Group and iXblue announced that both companies will operate under the common brand name Exail. The company will specialize...

A team at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) developed an electrically pumped, topological, bulk quantum cascade laser (QCL) that operates in the terahertz (THz) frequency range. The THz QCL is...

A recent discovery from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), could enable faster and more efficient magnetic hard drives by using ultrafast laser pulses to process data. The findings could...

High-bandwidth germanium-tin (GeSn) photodetectors, developed by a team at Polytechnique Montréal to support CMOS-compatible technologies in the extended shortwave infrared (e-SWIR)...

The Luxtron® M-1100 integrated converter platform from Advanced Energy Industries Inc. offers high-accuracy sensing across a wide temperature range. The system is designed for...

The POLATIS 576 software-defined optical circuit switch from HUBER+SUHNER AG features a modular architecture for network environments. To protect mission-critical services, the device can be...

The qBeam FSOC modem from qBeam Inc. is designed to maximize the benefits of free space optical communication technology. The device includes forward error correction tailored to the optical...

The VIPack™ packaging platform from Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. is designed to enable vertically integrated package solutions. The platform leverages advanced redistribution...

Manufacturing the laser diode is complicated by the existence of multiple proprietary techniques and intellectual property barriers together with complex device physics and unique materials. ...

Photonic components are key elements for the information technology (IT). Photonics technology covers the generation of information (cameras, sensors), its transportation (optical communication),...

There are three fundamentally different dispersive phenomena in optical fiber, of which polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is the most complex. In digital multimode fiber systems, a light pulse...

Laser diodes vary widely in their wavelengths, powers, spectra and beam quality. Yet they share two fundamental components with all other lasers: an optical amplifier and a resonator that confines...

Realizing photonic quantum technologies, such as an optical quantum computer or a quantum communication link between distant superconducting qubits, will require the development of novel photonic...

Two- and three-dimensional photonics arrays are commonly used for coupling light in photonic integrated circuits (PICs). With increasing demand for ultralow-loss transmission in applications such as...

Anti-reflective (AR) coatings are now entering their second century and have remained virtually unchanged throughout their life. As power level and wavelength range requirements continue to increase,...

Quantum technologies represent an increasing range of novel and useful applications, from advancing nanoscale manufacturing and compact devices for noninvasive medical imaging to provably unhackable...

Refers to micron-size complex machines that have physical dimensions suitable for the fabrication of optical switches for use in state-of-the-art communications networks.

Photonic crystals are artificial structures or materials designed to manipulate and control the flow of light in a manner analogous to how semiconductors control the flow of electrons. Photonic...

Digital signal processing (DSP) refers to the manipulation and analysis of signals, which are representations of physical quantities that vary over time or space. In the context of DSP, these signals...

Plasmonics is a field of science and technology that focuses on the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and free electrons in a metal or semiconductor at the nanoscale. Specifically,...

Students from large and small size companies and bigger Department of Defense affiliates of the AIM Photonics Institute took part in the recent AIM Photonics Summer Academy at MIT. This was the third...

On this episode of Light Matters Extra we take you to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, and introduce you to researchers at LESA -- the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and...

In this episode, we take you to the stage with a professional lighting designer who uses the latest technologies to create the ambience of theatre productions. And we take a look at just how...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at MIT run by Dr. Dirk Englund. Dr. Englund's group, the Quantum Photonics Group, is made up of postdocs and...

A fiber Bragg grating is a type of optical filter that is inscribed or "written" into the core of an optical fiber. It consists of a periodic modulation of the refractive index along the length of...

IPG Photonics is the world's leading provider of high power fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers that are revolutionizing performance and utility in a remarkable array of materials processing,...

We are a manufacturer of Diffraction Limited Fiber Coupled Laser Systems, Optical Systems, and Fiber Optic Systems from 240 nm to 6000 nm. Unique products include various sizes of Fiber Collimators,...

Our company's vision and mission are to become one of the top three providers in the global fiber laser industry and the space laser communication industry within the next ten years. We aim to...

The Synopsys Optical Solutions Group provides design tools that model all aspects of light propagation. With intelligent, easy-to-use solutions and an expert support team anchored by optical...