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II-VI announced its corporate name change. The company, which finalized its acquisition of Coherent Inc. this summer, is now called Coherent Corp. The company also debuted a brand identity, which...

Devices that capture light from quantum dots, like chip-scale lasers and optical amplifiers, have made their way from the lab to the commercial market. The transition for newer quantum dot-based...

Fiber, as a wearable material, offers breathability, flexibility, and resistance to wear, making it an ideal substrate for wearable devices. Using mature textile technology, color-changing fibers can...

A team at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) demonstrated an all-fiber-based approach to generating Bessel beams that could be useful for applications ranging from optical...

The Agilex™ 5 FPGAs from Altera and Intel are AI enabled field programmable gate arrays meant for mid-range applications including video, industrial, robotics, medical, and others. With AI...

The Photowave™ optical communications hardware from Lightelligence Co. Ltd. is designed for PCIe and Compute Express Link connectivity, enabling efficient connectivity between xPUs and memory....

Lessengers’ portfolio of partially retimed 800G optical transceivers are designed for AI/ML workloads in hyperscale data centers. With less than 9-W power consumption for an 800G OSFP, the...

Toppan’s millimeter-band reflector allows users to control the reflection angle of radio waves in the 1-10 mm wavelength band used in 5G mobile communications. The device is a lightweight...

An indicator of how well the entire system performs is a measurement called bit-error-ratio (BER). Acceptable BERs range from one error per billion to one per trillion bits transmitted. It is rare...

Adhesives for fiber optic components that perform well on glass, metal, ceramic and most plastic substrates provide excellent chemical and solvent resistance. They also can act as an electrical...

The use of precision polymer optics is becoming an increasing necessity today as products demand sophisticated light handling components to achieve desired results. Polymer optics can be thought of...

As system and cable installers try to optimize their links, the preferred method has become high-speed DWDM. This demand for bandwidth has led to the development of new test and measurement...

To achieve accurate and precise Raman measurements, optical filters play a crucial role in enhancing signal-to-noise ratio, and reducing background interference. This white paper explores the...

Tracking particles at the micro or nanoscale is inherently difficult due to the complexity of the systems studied, as well as the technical challenges: a blend of instrument design, photonics,...

Finding the ideal ultra-fast laser source for a multiphoton imaging setup is not trivial. It is a fine balance between peak power, pulse energy and laser wavelength. In this white paper we show that...

Producing optics for medical devices has its own unique set of difficulties and challenges including cost, turnaround time, performance, and standards. This paper talks about those challenges and...

Vince Forte of Marktech Optoelectronics reviews InGaAs detector types, packaging, performance characteristics, and applications in the NIR and SWIR wavelength bands. He focuses particularly on photo...

Beam profilers are critical tools for characterizing lasers and light sources, whether the goal is to gain fundamental knowledge during research and development, to set important design parameters...

Engineers face many unique challenges when creating polymerase chain reaction (PCR) instrumentation. These challenges are seen in both the qualitative detection of nucleic acid sequences, using...

This event is supported by the European initiatives presented and is moderated by EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium. The European Commission is helping companies access the...

Supercontinuum refers to a broad spectrum of light that spans a wide range of wavelengths, typically from the visible to the near-infrared or even mid-infrared regions of the electromagnetic...

Diamond turning, also known as diamond machining or diamond cutting, is a precision machining process used to produce high-quality optical surfaces and components with extremely tight tolerances. It...

Modulator/demodulator. An electronic device that modulates and demodulates signals transmitted over communications lines.

A fiber-coupled LED (light-emitting diode) refers to an LED device that is optically coupled to an optical fiber for the purpose of efficient light transmission. In this configuration, the LED serves...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you on a brief tour of the Higgins Laboratories at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Quinsigamond Community College and WPI received a $4M grant...

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...

In this episode, we take you to a U.S. National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Researchers there are leading the charge for "smart"...

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 optics and photolithography, a phase mask refers to a device that modifies the phase of light waves passing through it. The phase mask is used to control the spatial distribution of the light's...

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

CASTECH is a recognized leading supplier of nonlinear optical crystals, laser crystals and precision optical components for laser, telecom, medical, analysis and detector markets. Products...

The Optical Engineering Experts® Optikos designs and manufactures metrology products for measuring and assuring optical image quality; and provides optical engineering design, development,...

Fresnel Technologies Inc. is an expert manufacturer of molded plastic optics, including Fresnel lenses and related optical components, as well as infrared transmitting materials and optics made from...