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A new approach to guiding and controlling light, based on the process of diffusion, can enhance light transmission by orders of magnitude, even along curved trajectories. The diffusion waveguiding...

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) shows strong potential as a platform for integrated photonics, due to its robust electro-optic coefficient, large optical nonlinearity, and wide transparency window....

Nuclear clocks, which measure time by using the energy jumps within an atom’s nucleus, could improve timekeeping, navigation, and internet speeds, and could advance physics research. They have...

Commercial OLED applications such as display technologies require blue emitters that are more stable and efficient. This need has been intensified by newly proposed power-efficient OLED display...

The 50G PON OLT SFP56 from Source Photonics is a 50 G PON optical transceiver for communications applications. The transceiver uses optoelectronic chip technology with demonstration to support...

The 1948RUB from 3SP Technologies is a Raman pump module that provides up to 700-mW output power in order to improve the optical signal to noise ratio at the receiver side. The module uses a laser...

Source Photonics’ transceiver family includes 1.6 T and 800 G optical modules/AOC/DAC based on single-lambda 200 G PAM4 technology and 800 G 4 × 200 G DR4/FR4/LR4 and 400 G/800 G optical...

The LaserWave® Dual-Band OM4+ Multimode Optical Fiber from OFS is fiber optimized for bidirectional applications. The optical fiber offers OM5-equivalent performance at the 850-nm and 910-nm...

An indicator of how well the entire system performs is a measurement called bit-error-ratio (BER). Acceptable BERs range from one error per billion to one per trillion bits transmitted. It is rare...

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...

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,...

Optical fibers are made from either glass or plastic. Most are roughly the diameter of a human hair, and they may be many miles long. Light is transmitted along the center of the fiber from one end...

This free webinar, sponsored by the Technology Transfer program of CLEO: Market Focus and Photonics Media, complements the live event, which will be held on Thursday, June 13, in the CLEO:2013...

The Future of Lasers: Two Perspectives brings together two expert viewpoints on the future of quantum cascade lasers, fiber lasers and next-generation solid-state lasers. Our Expert Panel: ...

Inverse-design is a new paradigm that enables engineers to tap into vast parameter space for designing novel photonic and optical devices, including compact metadevices. Inverse-design approaches can...

The interaction between photons and acoustic phonons within materials, first described by Leon Brillouin, has been widely investigated to characterize the mechanical and physical properties of...

A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is a type of optical filter that is inscribed or "written" into the core of an optical fiber. It consists of a periodic modulation of the refractive index along the length...

A detector and signal demodulator used in optical communications systems to receive a signal and often to translate it into an electronic signal.

In the context of optical materials, the term "impurity level" refers to the presence of foreign atoms or molecules within the material that deviate from its regular or intrinsic composition. These...

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....

In the inaugural episode of Season 10, we discuss GlobalFoundries’ Fotonix project and the potential of silicon photonics with Anthony Yu, Vice President of GlobalFoundries’ Computer and Wired...

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...

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...

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...