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Multiband Optical Filters Are Telecom Networks' Multitaskers Jan 27, 2021 — Multiband optical filters have long been used in applications such as fluorescence spectroscopy, astronomy, and 3D cinema, to name a few. The ability to combine more than one spectral band into a single optical filter can enable flexibility of system design and reduce the number of components and the costs needed to achieve a desired functionality. Optical filters have always played a key role in fiber optic telecom systems. They provide the wavelength selectivity needed for optical add-drop...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2021
Fiber Lasers Continue to Power Growth Jan 12, 2021 — 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, is credited with pioneering the use of distributed...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2021
Electro-Optic Polymers Improve Speed and Power Efficiency Jun 26, 2020 — The search is on for new building blocks to increase the speed of optoelectronic components and decrease electrical power consumption. High-performance electro-optic (EO) materials have matured commercially and have the potential to offer solutions....
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2020
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Optical Materials Bending the Rules, Shaping Our World May 29, 2020 — From the emergence of diverse 2D materials (perovskites for efficient solar cells) and twisted bilayer graphene (superconductive at a “magic angle”) to the boom in polymer science and the promise of quantum photonics, materials science...
Photonics Spectra, Jul 2020
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Moth-Eye Metasurfaces for Fiber Optics Jan 23, 2020 — The use of optical fiber in astronomy, biomedical instrumentation, communications, defense, digital projection, industrial laser, medical, and sensing applications has increased over several decades to the point that it is now almost ubiquitous....
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2020
Free-Space Communications Extends Its Reach Nov 12, 2019 — It is little wonder that the concept of transmitting information across open air — free of wires, channels, or any other incumbent medium — is a tantalizing one. No longer confined to the realm of science fiction, the reality of today has...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2020
Ball Lenses for Telecom Jul 30, 2019 — With the explosion of high-bandwidth communications, fiber infrastructures are experiencing upgrades that demand improvements in both range and power at the lowest possible SWaP-C (size, weight, power, and cost). As a result, ball lenses —...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2019
Fiber Optic Sensors Compete in Environmental Monitoring Market Jul 10, 2019 — Modern societies are facing rising concerns about global environmental issues, including an alarming rise in pollution of our seas, waterways, land, and air. As we bear witness to widespread industrialization along with mass consumption trends,...
EuroPhotonics, Sep 2019
A History of the Laser: 1960 - 2019 Jun 6, 2019 — In 2020, the laser turns 60. This is a timeline of some of the more notable scientific accomplishments related to light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (laser). An interactive version of the laser timeline is available, as well as...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2019
Hollow-Core Optical Fibers Offer Advantages at Any Wavelength Feb 25, 2019 — Conventional optical fibers are fabulously successful, but they have profound limitations. These include a finite spectral transparency, susceptibility to optical damage, dispersion — which restricts the ability to deliver short and ultrashort...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2019
Testing Optical Fiber: Undersea and Downhole Applications Jan 4, 2019 — Many land and undersea oil operations rely heavily on temperature sensing for improved safety and functionality in harsh environments. Silica-based optical fibers have been increasingly used for distributed temperature and acoustic sensing...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2019
Fiber Optics for High-Power Applications Jan 3, 2019 — Specialty fiber components are an increasingly important part of generating and transmitting high-power laser beams for applications ranging from materials processing to laser surgery to lidar. These applications require precision — with...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2019
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Data Needs Drive Underwater Fiber Developments Dec 21, 2018 — Data traffic will nearly double in the next three years, according to analysts. Many bits will travel between data centers over land, and many will make the long journey across the ocean, moving through fiber optic cables that sit on the seafloor....
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2019
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Fiber Optics Crucial to Future Datacom Transmission Oct 26, 2018 — Fiber optics technology plays a critical role within the telecommunications sector, thanks to the wide-scale and growing adoption of the technology in communication and data transmission services. Optical fibers are used in high-speed data transfer...
EuroPhotonics, Dec 2018
Harsh-Environment Fiber Optics for Aerospace Jul 31, 2018 — In its most basic form, bare optical fiber consists of a silica core and a cladding whose indices of refraction vary slightly. However, bare fiber is not very useful beyond a laboratory setting because its performance is highly susceptible to its...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2018
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Getting More Out of Telecom Fiber Jan 29, 2018 — The rising amount of data generated by people and machines around the world travels largely by fiber, with some of it moving thousands of miles in a hop. For some long jumps, new ultralow-loss, large effective area fiber is going into the ground and...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2018
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Sensor Balancing Act for UAVs Jan 25, 2018 — Commercial applications such as crop disease detection, environmental monitoring, geological exploration and infrastructure inspection are prime examples of how the confluence of drones and sensing instruments is evolving globally. On-demand data...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2018
Endospectroscopic Imaging Takes Optical Biopsies to the Next Level Dec 8, 2017 — Spectroscopy has the potential to provide pathologists with fast in vivo tissue characterization to determine tumor type and grade and to delineate tumor margins. However, extending the applicability of microspectroscopy to in vivo imaging requires...
BioPhotonics, Jan 2018
Thin 2D Materials Pack a Heavy Punch Oct 17, 2017 — 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 materials that act as a single-photon emitter may be valuable...
EuroPhotonics, Dec 2017
Laser Light Source Delivers Superior Optical Control Sep 25, 2017 — Legacy light sources such as halogen and metal halide produce highly collimated directional beams, but with short life and lower efficiency than LED sources. LEDs are highly efficient and long lasting, but are poor at creating beam angles below 10...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2017
Space Photonics: A Platform Technology for Satellite Systems Jul 27, 2017 — Photonics is rapidly transforming into an enabling space technology with potential to cross-fertilize multiple markets in the space domain. Among them: navigation, remote sensing and telecommunications, as well as ground-breaking scientific and...
EuroPhotonics, Sep 2017
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Via Photonics, Secure Communications Jun 13, 2017 — Much of the world’s communications travel by light. So, data carried on photons moving through free space or over fiber must be made as secure as possible. Quantum key distribution helps do that. Also, security improvements via temporal...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2017
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Semiconductor Lasers Power Up May 25, 2017 — Improvements to semiconductor lasers promise big changes, from increases in power to expanded wavelengths. Other innovations could mean faster data rates for a bandwidth-hungry world. And then there are self-driving cars. Equipped with lidar,...
Photonics Spectra, Jul 2017
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50 Years of Photonics in Defense Mar 3, 2017 — The Airborne Laser and Advances in Airborne Optics (2006-Present) In the early 2000s, Boeing and other contractors developed the Airborne Laser (ABL), consisting of lasers aboard a plane that would effectively target and destroy ballistic missiles...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2017
DCS 2017 Brings Defense, Environment Into Focus Feb 27, 2017 — Changes in the nature of warfare in today’s high-tech world demand the most advanced tools for soldiers and others in the defense and security sectors. Environmental and health care segments are evolving, too, as an onset of innovative...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2017
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