Tropic Networks Secures Funding

On February 1, the biggest North American photonics convention concluded. It was busier than ever, with over 24,000 registered attendees. Guests once again enjoyed a great reunion for the...

Resolution, accuracy, and repeatability are all metrics for measuring the critical requirements of motion systems. In addition to defining performance, they fundamentally define and affect system...

Maximizing light absorption is essential for photovoltaics and many other photonic applications. It is also difficult, especially when the light is being absorbed by a thin layer of material that...

Devices that capture light from quantum dots, like chip-scale lasers and optical amplifiers, have made their way from the lab to the commercial market. The transition for newer quantum dot-based...

Low-profile athermal arrayed waveguide grating (AAWG) bricks and modules from POINTek Inc. features a ½-in. height housing for high-density fiber management. The low-profile AAWG bricks,...

The ECX-3000 PEG, ECX-3000, and IVX-1000 Robust Edge AI Platforms from Vecow Co. Ltd. have been updated with the Raptor Lake-S 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9/i7/i5/i3 Processor. The...

The TR7700QH SII ultrahigh-speed 3D automated optical inspection solution from Test Research Inc. features a 15-µm resolution, 21-MP imaging, and large field-of-view capability. The...

The Sticklers™ Pro360™ Touchless Cleaner from MicroCare LLC is designed to quickly and efficiently remove oils and dust across the entire end face surface of both male and female...

As bit rates increase to meet expanding demand, systems have become increasingly sensitive to polarization-related impairments. These include polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers,...

The common polycrystalline materials used for optical thin-film materials do not satisfy the requirements of telecommunications because of the instabilities caused by moisture absorption in their...

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...

Photonic components are key elements for the information technology (IT). Photonics technology covers the generation of information (cameras, sensors), its transportation (optical communication),...

Production-scale testing of silicon photonic devices continues to be a challenge due to the multi-degree-of freedom, high-precision, optical alignments required for wafer- and die-level testing. Wide...

An all-star panel discussion hosted by Optica’s Jose Pozo and featuring experts from the entire PIC value chain to discuss lessons learned when scaling PIC production for volume applications. ...

Liquid Instruments co-founder and CEO Daniel Shaddock shares next-generation strategies to perform optical phase locking using digitally implemented, FPGA-based lock-in amplifiers and phasemeters. He...

Advanced control of the polarization state in optical fibers is a critical component of emerging high-performance photonic systems used for applications such as directed energy, quantum computing,...

GaN (Gallium Nitride) distributed feedback (DFB) lasers refer to a specific type of semiconductor laser based on Gallium Nitride materials and designed with a distributed feedback structure. These...

A laser, which stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation," is a device that produces coherent and focused beams of light through the process of optical amplification based...

An optical filter is a device that selectively transmits or blocks specific wavelengths, or colors, of light. Optical filters are used to control the spectral content of light in various...

In data communications, the simultaneous operation of a circuit in both directions is known as full duplex; if only one transmitter can send at a time, the system is called half duplex.

Peter O’Brien, director of the PIXAPP Photonics Packaging Pilot Line and head of the photonics packaging group at the Tyndall Institute, overviews the current state of integrated photonics...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Trade Show in Austin, Texas, as new photonics innovations hit the show floor of the Austin Convention Center....

2019 President of The Optical Society and Fulbright Scholar Ursula Gibson details her latest work with novel core optical fibers and their function in expanding applications spanning metrology,...

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...

A transmitter in fiber optic communications, is a light source whose beam can be modulated and sent along an optical fiber, and the electronics that support it.

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,...

IPG Photonics is the world's leading provider of high power fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers that are revolutionizing performance and utility in a remarkable array of materials processing,...

The Synopsys Optical Solutions Group provides design tools that model all aspects of light propagation. With intelligent, easy-to-use solutions and an expert support team anchored by optical...

Our company's vision and mission are to become one of the top three providers in the global fiber laser industry and the space laser communication industry within the next ten years. We aim to...