• Optical Techniques to Enhance Electronic Warfare Capabilities

    September 22, 2016 Photonics, the technology that helps drive today’s telecommunications systems, offers major advances in the area of signal transmission. Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are adapting optical techniques from the photonics t... Read More
  • NeoPhotonics Introduces Micro-Intradyne Coherent Receiver

    September 20, 2016 NeoPhotonics Corporation announced at the European Conference on Optical Communications and Exposition (ECOC) held in Dusseldorf, Germany, that they are sampling a Class 40 High Bandwidth Micro-Intradyne Coherent Receiver (HB Micro-ICR) capable of... Read More
  • New Technique to Detect Spatial Coherency of Light at Nanoscale

    September 20, 2016 The difference between lasers and desk lamps is that laser light is spatially coherent, meaning the peaks and valleys of the light waves are correlated with each other. The jumbled, uncorrelated waves coming from a desk lamp, on the other hand, ar... Read More
  • Oclaro to Exhibit CFP8 Transceiver at ECOC 2016

    September 19, 2016 Oclaro announced that they will be showcasing a live demo of a CFP8 transceiver operating over 10km in their booth #384 at ECOC 2016 in Dusselforf, Germany from Sept 19-22, 2016. Featuring a small 40mm x 102mm x 9.5mm form factor, the new CFP8 mo... Read More
  • Laser Diodes from eagleyard Helps ESA Counting Stars

    September 19, 2016 Two laser diodes from eagleyard Photonics - based in Berlin Adlershof - are working on board at ESA’s billion-star surveyor Gaia. Their single frequency laser diodes DFB-852 in a 14-pin butterfly housing are responsible to keep the two telescopes ... Read More
  • Self Focused Laser Light to Improve Telecommunications

    September 15, 2016 A laser light basically is a beam that travels directly from one point to another and, unless it strikes a mirror or other reflective surface, will continue traveling along an arrow-straight path, gradually expanding in size due to the wave nature... Read More
  • Coherent Introduces New Line of Laser Line Generators

    September 14, 2016 A new series of laser line generators from Coherent, Inc. enables the detection of smaller features in machine vision applications based on triangulation. Specifically, StingRay µFocus (Micro Focus) lasers feature a linewidth that is 40% smaller t... Read More
  • Newport Releases IR Laser Position Sensing Detector

    September 14, 2016 Newport Corporation is introducing CONEX-PSD10GE, the latest addition to their series of position sensing detectors. The detector covers wavelengths from 800 – 1,700 nm using a 10 x 10 mm lateral effect sensor. These sensing detectors provide accu... Read More
  • Canon Develops Global Shutter CMOS Sensor With New Drive System

    September 12, 2016 Canon announced that they have developed a new CMOS sensor equipped with a global shutter function that exposes all of the sensor's pixels at the same time, enabling the capture of distortion-free images even when shooting fast-moving objects. Emp... Read More
  • II-VI Incorporated Launched 980 nm Uncooled Pump Laser Module

    September 12, 2016 II-VI Incorporated announced the introduction of new uncooled 980 nm pump laser modules that feature patent-pending in-package wavelength stabilization within an 8-pin mini-DIL package. High bit rate transceivers operating at 100 Gb/s and higher c... Read More
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