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

A University of Michigan-led team demonstrated an ultrafast, all-optical switch by pulsing circularly polarized light through an optical cavity lined with tungsten diselenide (WSe2), an ultrathin...

Researchers at the University of Rochester (UR) have developed a photonics-based quantum simulation system that simulates physical phenomena at the quantum level. The nanophotonic quantum simulator...

A team from the Photonics Research Laboratory (PRL)-iTEAM of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the company iPRONICS have developed a multifunctional, programmable...

The WaveShaper® 1000B and 4000B and WaveAnalyzer™ 400A/Super-C from Coherent are designed for operation across the super C-band. The WaveShaper® 1000B and 4000B are programmable optical...

The Fan-Out-Package-on-Package (FOPoP) solution from Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. is designed to lower latency and deliver bandwidth advantages for the dynamic mobile and networking...

The LoRa® Connect LR1121 transceiver from Semtech Corp. provides multiband versatility permitting for single, low-power chip use. The device is pin compatible with current LoRa Edge™...

The DQT400 12-port optical transponder from XKL LLC is an expansion mode that triples capacity on the DQT400 four-port launch. The DQT400-12 provides users with configuration options including...

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...

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,...

Manufacturing the laser diode is complicated by the existence of multiple proprietary techniques and intellectual property barriers together with complex device physics and unique materials. ...

As system and cable installers try to optimize their links, the preferred method has become high-speed DWDM. This demand for bandwidth has led to the development of new test and measurement...

The internet has had a revolutionary impact on our world. The vision of quantum internet — capable of transmitting quantum information — will provide novel applications that are provably...

Beginning with telecommunications needs, and more recently with modern home-diagnostics and biosensor applications, optical devices have been shrinking while their application space is expanding....

In optical design for illumination, some key questions need to be answered early on in a project, such as: “Which size LED should be used to create a beam with a given optics size and beam...

Solving problems in augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, machine vision, biophotonics, and other fields requires unique skills. So does successfully launching a business. Luminate can...

In an optical fiber or waveguide communications system, an optoelectronic device or module that receives an optical signal, converts this optical signal to an electrical signal which is then...

Indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) is a semiconductor compound composed of indium (In), gallium (Ga), and arsenic (As). It belongs to the III-V group of semiconductors and is commonly used in...

An LED, or light emitting diode, is a semiconductor device that emits light when an electric current passes through it. LEDs are widely used in various applications due to their energy efficiency,...

Diamond turning, also known as diamond machining or diamond cutting, is a precision machining process used to produce high-quality optical surfaces and components with extremely tight tolerances. It...

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...

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 to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Trade Show in Austin, Texas, as new photonics innovations hit the show floor of the Austin Convention Center....

Students from large and small size companies and bigger Department of Defense affiliates of the AIM Photonics Institute took part in the recent AIM Photonics Summer Academy at MIT. This was the third...

An Nd:YAG laser is a solid-state laser that utilizes neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet as the gain medium. This type of laser emits light at a wavelength of 1064 nm in the infrared region of...

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...

Ortel offers high-speed analog devices for today’s evolving wireless networks. Our portfolio features high-performance sensing products for LIDAR and industrial applications with extremely...