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An international team of researchers has reportedly set a data transmission record using just a single laser and optical chip to transmit more than 1 Pbit/s. The researchers, from the Technical...

Organic-based optoelectronics have the potential to provide an energy-efficient way to operate low-power indoor devices and wireless IoT sensors. Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) and organic...

Machine vision industry consulting firm Vision Markets has established Vision Markets Marketing Consulting GmbH as a subsidiary. Registered in Munich, the entity will act as the marketing and...

Co-packaged optics (CPO) and on-board optics (OBO) are not novel concepts, per se. The benefits of moving optics closer to the computing cores of data center switches have been clear to systems...

FS.COM Inc. has expanded its portfolio of 400G/800G optical solutions to support high-speed network connections and enable transmissions of more bits at lower power and cost in data center networks....

The Lattice Avant-G and X from Lattice Semiconductor are field programmable gate array (FPGA) device families designed for general purpose and advanced connectivity, respectively. The Avant-G general...

The Prysmian Group has extended its Sirocco HD range of microduct cables with an 864f cable for TTX and 5G networks. The cable features 864 fibers in a 11-mm diameter, providing a fiber density...

The ROF10G Mach-Zehnder modulator from Beijing Rofea Optoelectronics is a LiNbO3 intensity modulator for high-speed optical communication, laser sensing, and radio over fiber (RoF) systems. The R-AM...

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...

The use of precision polymer optics is becoming an increasing necessity today as products demand sophisticated light handling components to achieve desired results. Polymer optics can be thought of...

Adhesives for fiber optic components that perform well on glass, metal, ceramic and most plastic substrates provide excellent chemical and solvent resistance. They also can act as an electrical...

Spectral selection is a powerful tool that enhances conventional imaging tremendously. Most imaging systems, including the human eye, are designed to image light over a broad range of the spectrum....

Optical backscatter reflectometry (OBR) has become a valuable tool in the testing and diagnostics of fiber optic assemblies, components, and short networks. OBR systems provide measurement and...

High-power diode lasers have progressed significantly since their first appearance in the market. Today, these lasers are able to utilize high power levels and high-percentage electro-optical...

Microlenses are critical components used in a wide variety of consumer devices and industrial sensors, ranging from cellphone cameras and virtual reality goggles to 3D displays and advanced...

Tian Gu outlines the opportunities enabled by and challenges of employing metasurface flat optics in optical systems that are traditionally bulky and complicated. Leveraging a low-loss,...

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is an international standard for medical imaging created by both the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and the American...

A microlens array is a grid-like structure composed of numerous small lenses, typically arranged in a regular pattern. Each individual lens in the array is referred to as a microlens. These...

Laser-powered telephone device for analog communications that employs a vibrating plastic membrane as a transmitter to modulate laser light piped via optical fibers from a central exchange, omitting...

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

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,...

In this episode, we take you to a U.S. National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Researchers there are leading the charge for "smart"...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at MIT run by Dr. Dirk Englund. Dr. Englund's group, the Quantum Photonics Group, is made up of postdocs and...

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...

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,...

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...