Optical Fiber Amplifier Market to Reach $3.4 Billion by 2005

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...

The internet is an inescapable part of modern life, and the hardware that enables it is almost as ubiquitous. Fiber cables transmit terabytes of data around the world every second and, although the...

Co-packaged optics (CPO) and on-board optics (OBO) are not novel concepts, per se. The benefits of moving optics closer to the computing cores of data center switches have been clear to systems...

Delays in optical data transmission cause inconvenient lag times in communications and interfere with immersive experiences like gaming. Two factors that adversely affect the speed and reliability of...

The Perseus and Spica Gen2 from Marvell Technology, Inc. are optical PAM4 digital signal processors (DSPs) that can be used in AI, accelerated computing, and cloud services applications by optimizing...

The optical transport solutions from Nokia are meant for optical transport, IP routing, and PON applications and include coherent optical transceivers, a photonic engine, and a multihaul transceiver....

The HiWire P3 from Credo is a pluggable patch panel made for service providers and hyperscalers. The panel allows the ability for users to decouple pluggable optics from core switching and routing...

The fiber optic transceiver line from L-com has been expanded to offer 300 additional models, with various supported wavelengths, distances, and data rates. The coarse wavelength division...

As bit rates increase to meet expanding demand, systems have become increasingly sensitive to polarization-related impairments. These include polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers,...

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...

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...

Optical fibers are made from either glass or plastic. Most are roughly the diameter of a human hair, and they may be many miles long. Light is transmitted along the center of the fiber from one end...

We combine all resources for your successful micro imaging needs under one roof. We are specialists in ready-to-install, small and high-precision individual lenses and cemented elements. Our...

In the PON (Passive optical network), especially the complex point-to-multipoint PON ODN (Optical distribution network) topology environment, the rapid monitoring and diagnosis of optical fiber...

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,...

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...

Liquid Instruments co-founder and CEO Daniel Shaddock shares next-generation strategies to perform optical phase locking using digitally implemented, FPGA-based lock-in amplifiers and phasemeters. He...

Golshan Coleiny of Fundamental Optical Solutions shares a brief history of nanoscale imaging with a focus on optical technologies, addressing many of today’s challenges in optical limitation...

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...

Since they first appeared in the 1990s, photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), thin strands of glass with an intricate array of hollow channels running along their length, have ushered in a new era of...

The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and...

A GRIN (gradient index) lens is a type of optical lens that utilizes a gradient in refractive index across its volume rather than having a uniform refractive index like conventional lenses. This...

A diode laser is a type of laser that uses a semiconductor diode as the active medium to generate coherent light. Semiconductor diodes are electronic devices that conduct electricity primarily in one...

Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and its manifestation as both particle and wave phenomena. It encompasses the...

2019 President of The Optical Society and Fulbright Scholar Ursula Gibson details her latest work with novel core optical fibers and their function in expanding applications spanning metrology,...

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...

Light is not always simply light when it comes to clinical diagnoses, light is the key to prediction accuracy in analytical quality. Our solution: a flexible fiber optic multi-branch device with...

Bishnu Pal, author of "Frontiers in Guided Wave Optics and Optoelectronics" and dean of academics at Mahindra University's Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, is our guest. From his start in...

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.

A dispersion-shifted fiber optic fiber is a type of single-mode optical fiber for use in high-bit-rate, long-distance telecommunications systems. The silica-clad fiber has a segmented core that...

A transmitter in fiber optic communications, is a light source whose beam can be modulated and sent along an optical fiber, and the electronics that support it.

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,...

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...

Arkwright Technologies design and manufacture application specific fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. Our innovative, award winning designs have evolved from over 30 years direct expertise in the...

Lambda Research Optics, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of laser optics with high power thin-film coatings and high precision fabrications. Lambda serves a wide range of industries, such as Biotech,...