Sumitomo mass-produces Thunderbolt cable

Sensor technology company Leuze named Xavier Hamers CEO and chairman of the executive board of the global Leuze electronic Inc., effective April 1. Hamers joins the company from BARTEC Safe.t...

Coherent Corp. and Faraday 1867 Holdings LLC, which is based in Kangawa, Japan, have established a partnership to scale up manufacturing of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape to enable mass...

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded microelectronics glass packaging technology developer Mosaic Microsystems a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract that will enable Mosaic to...

CEA-Leti reported the optimization of a hybrid direct-bonding, self-assembly process with the potential to increase the alignment accuracy as well as fabrication throughput of die-to-wafer (D2W)...

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 SPA-100 O-Band Swept Photonics Analyzer from Santec leverages the sweeping range of a tunable laser to maintain a high resolution reflectometer (<6 µm). Previously only available in a CL...

Intel’s Agilex 7 FPGAs with F-Tile provide flexible hardware solutions, delivering up to 116 Gbps and hardened 400 G Ethernet IP. Built on Intel’s 10-nm SuperFin process technology,...

The One-Click™ Cleaner SC PRO and One-Click™ Cleaner LC PRO optical connector cleaners from Fujikura Ltd. are designed to remove oil, grease, and dust from ferrule end-faces with a single...

Silicon photonics is widely considered a key enabling technology for further development of optical interconnect solutions needed to address growing traffic on the internet. From the first submarine...

An optical time-domain reflectometer sends short pulses of light into a fiber and measures its reflections as a function of time. The delay of these reflections to the detector as well as their...

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...

Just as an electronic connector provides a pluggable connection between electronic circuits, a fiber optic connector provides an optical one. The goal is joining a fiber to a transmitter, receiver or...

Discover the power of light guides with our free whitepaper! Learn about total internal reflection, surface features, and performance parameters with ease. Elevate your expertise and stay ahead in...

Answering some common questions new users of optical design and analysis software have are “How accurate are the results?” or “Can I trust the results I get?” and discussing the importance of...

We started developing FACs more than 15 years ago. The result is highly automated in-house processes which allow for competitive prices – even with high volumes. Diode lasers are efficient, compact,...

Explore Lumispot Tech's advanced remote sensing mapping laser solutions, enhancing geospatial technology and insights. Delve into our capabilities in satellite imagery, aerial mapping, and spatial...

As demand for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) expands in and beyond datacom applications, so grows demand for pluggable and co-packaged PIC solutions offering higher levels of laser integration...

Lidar for autonomous vehicles. Virtual reality for immersive entertainment and new interactive applications. Wearable health sensors. Photonic computing — computation by propagation. Quantum...

The size and number of images for image acquisition instruments and processing techniques have grown exponentially, along with the associated storage needs and network requirements. In the fields...

In recent years, endoscopes have evolved and now enable a range of minimally invasive diagnostic procedures and surgeries. The imaging function is now located in the small tip of the endoscope, where...

A two-fiber optical cable containing two single-fiber cables that are connected by a strip of jacket and that can easily be separated from one another for the installation of optical connectors.

A strand of aramid yarn, steel or fiberglass in an optical cable intended to prevent bending or stretching that would damage the transport medium.

The outer material that surrounds and protects the buffered and unbuffered fibers in an optical cable.

An optical cable that is connector terminated. Generally, an optical cable that has been terminated by a manufacturer and is ready for installation.

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we give you an in-depth look at North America's largest optical fabrication exhibition and show – Optifab 2017. 188 companies filled the showroom floor of the...

YOEC: Special optical fiber manufacturer; fiber coil; fiber sensor; optical components.

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we give you an in-depth look at the recent Luminate Lightning Awards. New York’s Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul was there and tells us why Luminate is important...

A local area fiber optic network is a data communications network in a clearly defined geographical location, and extending no more than a few miles in length.

With offices in Germany and the US, XIMEA develops and manufactures scientific and industrial cameras with CCD, CMOS, and sCMOS that utilize USB, and PCI Express (PCIe) interfaces. Applications...

Cameras are indispensable in automation. With more than 25 years of experience and subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, South Korea and the UK as well as offices in Europe and Asia, IDS Imaging...

Polarization Maintaining Couplers Evanescent Optics Inc. offers low loss (<0.1dB), high isolation (<-25dB) PM fiber-optic couplers in both fixed ratio and variable models. Our small...

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,...