Finisar Readies Texas Plant for VCSEL Production

For vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), the future looks bright — because their performance is rising while their price is falling. On the horizon is also a move from near-IR to...

Lidar developer Hesai Technology collaborated with NVIDIA to integrate Hesai’s AT128 automotive-grade, ultrahigh-resolution long-range lidar into the NVIDIA DRIVE and NVIDIA Omniverse...

Automotive technology solutions developer indie Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company whose technology supports driver safety and automation, has acquired EXALOS AG. The Swiss photonics...

Qcells, a clean energy technology company, will invest $100 million to accelerate the commercialization of perovskite-based tandem cells, a solar cell technology designed to boost panel efficiency....

The illumination module platform from Coherent can be used for short- and mid-range lidar in automotive safety and robotic vision in industrial applications. Using eight 940-nm VCSEL modules, the...

The LXM from TeraXion is a narrow linewidth laser module for coherent applications including wind sensing, distributed acoustic sensing, FMCW lidar, optical network monitoring, and quantum...

Coherent Corp.’s 905-nm triple-junction edge-emitting semiconductor lasers enable direct time-of-flight lidar systems in a wide variety of mission-critical industrial robots exposed to...

The LDX-36000 Series High-Power Laser Diode Drivers are designed specifically for controlling and testing high-power laser diodes and VCSEL arrays. They are CW/QCW laser diode drivers with current...

Silicon photonics is widely considered a key enabling technology for further development of optical interconnect solutions needed to address growing traffic on the internet. From the first submarine...

Developed in the early 1990s, the silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is a solid-state photodetector whose sensitivity to light rivals that of a photomultiplier tube (PMT) in a regime where a few hundred...

NSOM is suitable for studies on the mesoscopic scale (several tens to hundreds of molecular dimensions). It has become an important tool in research and applications of semiconductors, organic layers...

The wavelength range of commercially available LEDs with single-element output power of at least 5 mW is 275 to 950 nm. Each wavelength range is made from a specific semiconductor material family,...

Explore Lumispot Tech's advanced remote sensing mapping laser solutions, enhancing geospatial technology and insights. Delve into our capabilities in satellite imagery, aerial mapping, and spatial...

PIN Photodiode Wavelength Range: 0.9 - 1.7 µm, 0.6 - 1.7 µm, 1.1 - 1.9 µm, 1.2 - 2.2 µm. Package Type: Chip ( Die ), CLCC, TO-Can, TO-Can with 1 Stage Cooler. Customized Aperture sizes are also...

Monte Carlo raytracing algorithms have long been used in optical design and analysis software. A limitation of the Monte Carlo method is that low probability events or ray paths may be undersampled....

This white paper compares current sensing technologies for automotive applications. It outlines the challenges faced by LiDAR, Radar, Sonar, and traditional HDR cameras, and addresses the benefits of...

Branko Petrov explores individual trends in lidar emitters and how they are advancing the performance and adoption of automotive lidar systems. He explains how edge-emitter lasers remain the most...

Photonics Media will host its second annual Photonics Spectra Conference Jan. 10-13. The virtual event will comprise four technology tracks — Lasers, Optics, Sensors and Detectors, and Imaging...

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) revolutionized communications systems in the 1990s. As the technology improved, VCSELs began to be employed in sensing applications because of the...

Wlodzimierz Strupinski, Ph.D., and Marcin Gebski, Ph.D., of VIGO Photonics offer perspective to industry specialists and experts who share a technological interest in the epitaxy, processing, and...

Volumetric imaging refers to the capture, visualization, and analysis of three-dimensional (3D) information from a volume of space. Unlike traditional two-dimensional (2D) imaging, which provides...

A lidar (light detection and ranging) technique used in pollution monitoring. Two light beams are emitted simultaneously, one at a wavelength that will be absorbed by the target particles, and the...

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...

Lidar, short for light detection and ranging, is a remote sensing technology that uses laser light to measure distances and generate precise, three-dimensional information about the shape and...

Materion engineers advanced materials that help save lives, help explore space, connect people, deliver energy, support defense, and navigate the world. We deliver innovative designs and prototype...

Focuslight is developing product platforms and photonics solutions for LiDAR, DMS, and other emerging automotive applications. Focuslight was awarded with volume supply contract with an automotive...

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...

Luminate NY, the only optics, photonics and imaging (OPI) accelerator and investment fund in the world, announced the final winners at the Light Tomorrow with Today event in Rochester, NY. For the...

A camera streak is a high-speed cine camera used to record, on a continuously moving film, very brief events such as a flash of light. The image is recorded as a continuous image, not as a series of...

Lumispot Tech, a leading scientific and technical enterprise, specializes in advanced rangefinder module, laser diode, LiDAR laser source, DPSS laser, solid-state, and fiber lasers, as well as...

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,...

Manufacturer of high power polarizing beamsplitters (PBS), cylindrical lenses, high power wave plates, high power optical bonding crystals, polarizers (Glan laser, Wollaston, Rochon prisms), crystals...

G&H is a world leader in optical designing, testing, and manufacturing. As experts in the technology of light, G&H works with customers to provide optical systems, assemblies, and components...