Baumer Electric AG has announced five new LX fiber optic camera models with 10-GigE Vision-compliant interfaces for use with optical cables. The cameras are ideal for applications requiring a...

The series SK010PA polarization analyzer is a comprehensive measurement system for free beam applications and fiber-coupling. A real-time interactive display shows the state of polarization on a...

New SWIR (1500 to 2200 nm) coating and VIS1 (350 to 600 nm) coating have been added to the FC100. Focus is adjustable for wavelength tuning. With a large 50-mm beam and low wavefront error, this...

Join the world’s leading optical communication professionals in Dublin this September. ECOC 2019 is your opportunity to hear new ideas shaping your industry, make new contacts and gain insight...

In a new “twist” on quantum communication using optical fiber, researchers from the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) have...

Berk-Tek, a Nexans company and manufacturer of network infrastructure solutions, has appointed Will Jensen president of Berk-Tek and vice president and general manager of Nexans LAN Division North...

Researchers from the University of Padova have developed an all-fiber device to generate the quantum states necessary for quantum key distribution (QKD), a method of protecting data that uses...

A growing group of scientists is adapting Brillouin scattering to a new generation of integrated circuits for 5G and broadband networks, sensors, satellite communication, radar systems, and defense....

An indicator of how well the entire system performs is a measurement called bit-error-ratio (BER). Acceptable BERs range from one error per billion to one per trillion bits transmitted. It is rare...

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...

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...

Early fiber lasers were inefficient and limited to low powers, until more effective methods emerged to deliver the pump light into the cladding. Valentin Gapontsev, founder and CEO of IPG Photonics,...

By offsetting the light structure, precise localized zone heating and annealing of specific areas at a fiber’s surface can be achieved as well. This is essentially a passive device into which active...

Iridian Spectral Technologies has developed what is referred to as a Hybrid GFF, which combines the functionality of both a WDM and the GFF on one component. Specifically, a Hybrid GFF can block the...

The world's first portable end-cap fusion splicer that provides capabilities that overcome the limitations of current end-cap splicing processes.

This paper presents results obtained by using the high thermal expansion coefficient of the ZBLAN fiber to encapsulate a smaller SiO2 fiber. A CO2 laser glass processing system was used to control...

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...

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...

As fiber optics device manufacturing processes mature, the use of automated alignment, probing, and packaging equipment will become widespread. These automated technologies will greatly enhance the...

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...

A process by which high-quality fiber optics are made. See axial vapor-phase deposition.

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.

1. In detector technology, the long wavelength at which detector response falls to a set percentage (usually 20 or 50 percent). 2. In fiber optics, the shortest wavelength at which a fiber transmits...

In fiber optics, a device used to polish a biconic plug to a specified length and surface finish. Also called a polishing disc.

In this month’s Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Springfield Technical Community College campus and introduce you to Professor Nick Massa, who has been teaching Optics and Photonics there for...

Photonics Media followed the photons all the way to San Francisco earlier this month for SPIE’s Photonics West 2017. The year truly begins with this event for many in the industry, as it is a symbol...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you to central Massachusetts as Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Quinsigamond Community College take on a comprehensive joint photonics laboratory...

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

NYFORS TEKNOLOGI AB manufactures a broad range of fiber processing and glass shaping equipment for specialty or high yield applications. All NYFORS products are designed with the user in mind and are...

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...

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...

With more than 20 years of experience in design, development, and manufacturing of specialty optical fibers and complex optical fiber assemblies, art photonics GmbH is a major solution provider in...