Instrumentation & Accessories

Photonics Spectra Editors

It shouldn't surprise anyone that communications applications are molding the future of photonics instrumentation and accessories. The good news for those in other application areas is that the change should be good for everyone.

We said last year that an important instrumentation trend is connectivity: the ability to operate these instruments at remote locations or to retrieve data over a network. You could say, then, that instrumentation users' requirements for communications bandwidth are helping to drive the new market for fast, precise, multifunction controllers and instruments...