Alcatel Invests $9 Million In China Telecom-Focused VC Fund

Fujitsu Limited, a technology company, plans to establish an open all-photonics network (APN) lab in Düsseldorf, Germany, from November 2024 to March 2025. The goal of the lab is to further the...

Compact, high-quality lasers that generate red and blue light have been available for years, but lasers that emit light at yellow and green wavelengths and are small enough to fit on a chip have been...

You know how your headphone cables get tangled up in your bag just minutes after they were placed there neatly? And the Christmas tree lights, packed away carefully in January, emerge the next...

As the large-scale, commercial use of 5G networks has grown, so has the need for broader bandwidth to accommodate high-speed communications. To meet the resource needs of the post-5G and 6G eras,...

MaxLinear’s family of 800G silicon photonics-based optical transceiver modules, in collaboration with Jabil, use Intel’s silicon photonics platform for AI/ML applications. The modules use...

The NPG102 from NewPhotonics is a PIC transmitter on chip for DSP-based optical transceiver modules. The transmitter integrates octal channel, auto-tunable lasers and 224 Gbps PAM4 modulation...

The FTBx-570 from EXFO is a cloud connected single-ended test solution that measures chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion in fiber optic networks. The solution can characterize...

The uncooled pump laser modules from Coherent are made with Coherent’s G10 series laser diode technology and are meant to be used in submarine and both single- and dual-chip terrestrial...

Optics today needs alchemy, and the forces that motivate microchip technology are a key reason why. Today, light can transmit and process digital information as well as electricity can — in...

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...

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. ...

Unlike an edge emitter, a VCSEL has a maximum operating power that is not limited by catastrophic optical damage of the exit aperture because its aperture is larger and its PN junction does not...

Optogenetics has transformed experimental neuroscience by manipulating the activity of specific cell types with light, enabling in vivo neuromodulation with millisecond temporal resolution. Visible...

Advanced packaging enables researchers to combine different technology platforms such as photonics, electronics, micro-electromechanical, and fluidics to address a vast array of exciting...

Diouf discusses his team’s investigations of the self-healing (self-reconstituting) capabilities of the space-time light sheet when it interacts with a partially transparent object,...

This webinar, presented by OFS, will provide an overview of current in vivo medical procedures performed using lasers and optical fibers. The presentation will begin with a brief history of...

An etalon is an optical device that consists of two parallel reflecting surfaces separated by a precise and known distance. It operates based on the principle of optical interference and is used to...

Optical fiber optic switches are devices used in optical fiber communication systems to selectively route optical signals from one input fiber to one or more output fibers. They play a crucial role...

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 interferometer is a scientific instrument that utilizes the principle of interference to measure differences in the path length, wavelength, phase, or amplitude of coherent electromagnetic waves....

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...

Researchers at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a new phenomenon of quantum cascade laser frequency combs, which would allow the devices to...

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"...

On this episode of Light Matters Extra we take you to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, and introduce you to researchers at LESA -- the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and...

A MEMS fiber optic switch is a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device designed to selectively route optical signals between multiple fiber optic channels. These switches utilize miniature...

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,...

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,...

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...