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Optical time delays, also known as fiber delay lines, are critical in today's advanced fiber optic communications networks for latency-driven applications. Helping to solve signal timing,...

When requiring spools of optical fiber for network simulation and optical time delay applications, Fiber Lab solutions provide the most efficient and organized approach while delivering consistent...

A DeSpeckler averages the modal noise within an optical fiber. For many fiber coupled applications, modal noise interferes with optimal performance. The Newport™ small, simple and integrated...

The RD-P Remote-head Polarity Detector from JGR Optics Inc. integrates with the IL/RL measurement system to reduce testing time and cost of multifiber optical cable assemblies. Proprietary...

Researchers at the University of South Australia developed a multimode optical fiber (MMF) sensor array to unobtrusively monitor the movement and vital signs of patients in hospitals and other health...

A team at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) demonstrated an all-fiber-based approach to generating Bessel beams that could be useful for applications ranging from optical...

Researchers at Tampere University collaborated with colleagues at the University of Warsaw and the University of Burgundy France-Comté to create a supercontinuum light source in the...

Rockley Photonics appointed Richard Meier president and CFO, effective immediately. Meier joins Rockely from Intersect ENT, a global ear, nose, and throat medical technology company, where he served...

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...

There are three fundamentally different dispersive phenomena in optical fiber, of which polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is the most complex. In digital multimode fiber systems, a light pulse...

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...

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...

Enabling new laser applications with fused silica fibers.

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,...

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...

This whitepaper presents a versatile and comprehensive photonic design workflow that integrates design and simulation techniques ranging from optical waveguides and fibers to complete optical...

Optical fibers made of fused silica have many applications, including communications, manufacturing, medical care and diagnostics, and research. These applications are as varied as the requirements...

Optical fibers made of fused silica have many applications, such as communication, sensing, and laser systems. The performance of optical fibers is highly sensitive to the manufacturing processes and...

The use of polarization maintaining (PM) elements based upon optical fibers and waveguides are constantly growing in many applications, including telecommunications, fiber sensing, medical imaging,...

This presentation will outline the approach to move advanced technology into successful commercial products. The elements of commercialization will be defined, including: technology innovation,...

A shaft, spindle or any object generally passed through a workpiece to hold, support or shape a particular piece during its machining process or its practical use. In fiber optics, optical fibers are...

1. In fiber optics, a protective material applied as an optical fiber cover that has no optical function. 2. In image processing, a peripheral that stores data between two active processing stages.

In a single-mode optical fiber, the wavelength that causes material dispersion and waveguide dispersion to cancel each other. In a multimode fiber, loose term for the wavelength at which there is a...

Also referred to as the V number in fiber optics; the normalized frequency is a dimensionless quantity, denoted by the symbol V, given by: where a is waveguide core radius, l is wavelength in vacuum,...

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...

Manufacturing Standard and Custom fiber optics for Industrial, Medical, Commercial, Military, and Machine Vision applications since 1977.

Enabling New Laser Applications with Fused Silica Fibers: Fused silica is the material of choice due to its low absorption (low loss) and high damage threshold, enabling new applications like surface...

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

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...

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...

PhotonTec Berlin GmbH is located in the Center for Microsystems and Materials (ZMM) in Berlin-Adlershof, Germany. We focus on the development, production, and marketing of fiber-coupled diode lasers...

In 1977, Dale Flaming, a scientist working at the University of California at San Francisco, was having difficulty reliably producing micropipettes. He developed the first electronically controlled...