White Rock Networks Secures $42 M Funding

Edmund Optics named Marisa Edmund chair of the board of directors, succeeding Robert Edmund, who will retire from the position. Marisa Edmund has more than 25 years of experience in the photonics...

Use of a modular system, enabling individual components to be replaced and thereby extending service life — can make satellite systems more sustainable. To ensure a problem-free interface...

Commercial OLED applications such as display technologies require blue emitters that are more stable and efficient. This need has been intensified by newly proposed power-efficient OLED display...

You know how your headphone cables get tangled up in your bag just minutes after they were placed there neatly? And the Christmas tree lights, packed away carefully in January, emerge the next...

The Tensilica ConnX 110 and ConnX 120 radar, lidar, and communications digital signal processors (DSPs) from Cadence Design Systems Inc. provide broad performance range from the low to the ultrahigh...

The Long Range Lidar system from Draganfly Inc. provides accurate distance measurements and improved resolution over conventional photogrammetry methods. With a scanning range of 750 m, the...

The DQT400 12-port optical transponder from XKL LLC is an expansion mode that triples capacity on the DQT400 four-port launch. The DQT400-12 provides users with configuration options including...

The DCP-R-34D-CS from Smartoptics is a compact reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) for larger fiber optic networks. Taking up a single rack unit and consuming less than 100 W of power...

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,...

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...

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. ...

Optical backscatter reflectometry (OBR) has become a valuable tool in the testing and diagnostics of fiber optic assemblies, components, and short networks. OBR systems provide measurement and...

Optical systems often need to operate in harsh environments, including high altitudes, in space, and under water, where they are subjected to structural loads and extreme temperatures. Similarly,...

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...

Metasurfaces are new optical elements that allow complete control over all aspects of light such as phase, wavelength, intensity, and polarization with a single, planar semiconductor layer. Comprised...

A fiber optic preform is a cylindrical glass rod or tube used as the starting material for manufacturing optical fibers. It serves as the precursor from which optical fibers are drawn. The process of...

An optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) is a specialized instrument used in optical fiber communications to characterize and analyze the optical fibers' characteristics, including attenuation,...

A diffraction grating is an optical component consisting of a surface with a periodic structure of equally spaced, parallel grooves or rulings. These rulings act as an array of closely spaced slits...

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

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...

Peter O’Brien, director of the PIXAPP Photonics Packaging Pilot Line and head of the photonics packaging group at the Tyndall Institute, overviews the current state of integrated photonics...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...