The Sticklers CleanWipes 640 fiber optic cleaning products from MicroCare Corp. are optical-grade cleaning wipesfor use in cleaning LC, SC, ST, FC and MPO connectors. A fast and efficient way...

OFS Fitel LLC has announced higher density wavelength division multiplexing capacity over its TeraWave ULL Optical Fiber with the Nokia Commercial Ultra-Wideband C+L-Band System, helping to reduce...

Splice-free cascaded PM couplers can be manufactured as 1 X N and 2 X N coupler arrays with any output ratios and at wavelengths from 0.45um to 2.04um. PER is better than -24dB per coupler, with loss...

High Refractive Index Coating from Fiber Optic Center Inc. is designed for optoelectronics, LEDs and emissive displays. The coating is an optical polymer dissolved in an evaporative solvent...

Fiber optics developer OFS has announced that it is a founding member of the newly formed Fiber Optics Sensing Association (FOSA). FOSA aims to educate industry, government and the public on...

In the last 10 years, the combination of ever-increasing computational power and readily available bandwidth has stimulated advances in data science that have greatly increased the value of data,...

Researchers from a consortium of Australian institutions have demonstrated that a stable radio-frequency (RF) reference can be reliably transmitted more than 300 km over a standard fiber optic...

A photonic system created using a lightweight, inexpensive photonic chip and off-the-shelf telecommunications components has been used to demonstrate that photons can become an accessible, powerful...

Two-dimensional materials such as graphene, as well as composite materials such as the layered semiconductor germanium selenium, could have a big impact on myriad applications. Composite...

Optical fiber has changed the world by providing millions of kilometers of telecommunication fiber that have transformed how we communicate. But beyond telecommunications, optical fibers are making...

Researchers have fabricated highly efficient OLEDs on an ultrathin fiber for use in wearable displays. The weavable OLEDs, which are formed from a simple, low-temperature solution process,...

A consortium of European scientists has developed what they’re calling the world’s first skin cancer scanner: a device — called VivoSight — that is capable of detecting blood...

For all of their diversity of form and function, the vast range of available optical components and optical fibers have much in common — materials, engineering and design, and techniques in...

Lasers, photonics and ultrasounds are not the typical instruments used during a mammogram. But they could aid doctors in diagnosing breast cancer painlessly, almost effortlessly, and while the...

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...

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...

Tune into this month’s edition of Light Matters for the complete list of Photonics Media’s Industry Beacon award winners. We’ll also introduce you to an Industry Beacon in the Educator category, and...

Benjamin Eggleton, University of Sydney, Australia, shares his early beginnings as an undergraduate student in optical astronomy.

A fiber-optic probe for optical coherence tomography (OCT) applications typically includes a short section of graded index (GRIN) fiber fused onto a single-mode (SM) fiber. The GRIN fiber acts as a...

Precision assembly processes in the semiconductor, electronics, and automobile industries are benefitting from new capabilities of hexapod 6-axis motion and positioning systems in production...

For many advanced embedded-FBG sensing applications it has become necessary and critical that the sensing fibers have small dimension, light weight, and low bend sensitivity in order to allow easy...

Low-power diode lasers are a well established technology, used extensively in products such as DVD players, computer optical drives, fiber-optic telecommunications and even laser pointers. While...

Additional Questions and Answers from the Webinar are below: With more than 6 billion cell phone users in the world, the majority of them in developing countries, there are opportunities for...

From LEDs to medical devices to microelectronics to fiber optics — everything leaks! This 40-minute webinar, presented by Agilent Technologies, will describe the challenges of locating and...

If you want to learn how to simulate metamaterials in the terahertz regime, then tune into this webinar, presented by COMSOL. Metamaterials are engineered to have specific material properties. They...

Anti-reflective (AR) coatings are now entering their second century and have remained virtually unchanged throughout their life. As power level and wavelength range requirements continue to increase,...

The use of thin flexible glass or plastic fibers as wave guides - or "light pipes" - to channel light from one location to another. Fiber optics is based off of the principle of total internal...

Special glasses that extend the usable range of fiber optics well into the ultraviolet region. The fibers have a core of high-purity, nonfluorescing quartz clad with an ultraviolet-transmitting...

In fiber optics, the limitation on performance imposed by the amplitude of a received signal rather than distortion.

In fiber optics, a material whose properties, usually of transmission, are distinctly affected by the absorption of water vapor.

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...

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...

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...

Infrared spectrophotometers have a prism or, more frequently, a grating for the study and recording of infrared spectra. It usually consists of a radiation source such as a Nernst glower, a...

Evanescent Optics Inc. acquired the assets and employee group of Canadian Instrumentation & Research Ltd. in August 2009 and continues production and development of the suite of fiber optic...

AFL is a leading manufacturer and provider of engineering expertise with disciplines in integrated services and convergence technologies. From lasers for use in manufacturing facilities to more...

SCHOTT Lighting and Imaging specializes in the design and manufacture of fiber optic, LED, optical and hybrid product solutions for use in medical, dental, scientific, microscopy, industrial,...

With a heritage dating back to Alexander Graham Bell, OFS has been at the forefront of optical communications technology. Headquartered in the United States outside of Atlanta, Georgia, OFS is a...