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FIBER OPTICS FEATURES
Optical Fiber Sensors Enable New Biomedical Devices
Jun 1, 2022 — The biomedical community recognized the advantages of optical fibers long ago, accepting them even before their adoption for long-haul telecommunications. Early research on the light-guiding properties of fibers in the late 1920s was aimed at applications in medical imaging. The first clad optical fiber was drawn on December 8, 1956, by Larry Curtis, a graduate student under Basil Hirschowitz at the University of Michigan. The technology was used in a multifiber bundle for a fiber endoscope,...
Photonics Spectra, Jul 2022
As PIC Production Ramps Up, Fabricators Eye Alignment Options
May 5, 2022 — The early 2000s saw the rapidly growing global appetite for data collide with the limitations of copper-based wire networks. The performance of these conventional data transmission systems declined dramatically at data bandwidths beyond 10 Gbit/s,...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2022
How Optical Networks Are Enabling the 5G Advantage
Jan 27, 2022 — The fifth generation of broadband cellular network technology (5G) offers a more than tenfold increase in speed compared to 4G. It handles a wider variety of devices, provides greater reliability, and operates with lower latency. These benefits...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2022
Fiber Optic Sensors Are Wired for Growth with Infrastructure Improvements
Dec 3, 2021 — In October 2021, a 40-year-old undersea pipeline off the coast of California ruptured, releasing more than 130,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean. The spill polluted the ecosystem, stifled local economic activities such as fishing and...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2022
Glass Offers Transparent Benefits to Quantum Technology
Nov 24, 2021 — Currently, research on quantum technologies is enjoying a gold rush in funding. Recently published roadmaps provide researchers, industry, and funders with an outlook of what to expect from such research. The documents underscore the technology’s...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2022
Integrated Photonics Sector Aims to Bridge Skills Gap
Nov 8, 2021 — The challenge of finding, recruiting, training, and retaining talent is putting pressure on businesses in every photonics market segment, in all geographic regions. But the skills gap presents particular challenges for the industry’s more...
Photonics Spectra, Dec 2021
Polymer Waveguides Smooth Path to Smaller Optical Sensors
Aug 27, 2021 — The worldwide sensor market is growing rapidly with the establishment and growth of new applications, such as medical devices that leverage noninvasive optical sensors, and environmental monitoring, which is gaining importance due to a rise in the...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 2021
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...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2021
Fiber Lasers Continuing 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,...
Photonics.com, 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...
Photonics.com, 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
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