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JDSU Introduces SRS Functionality to its TestPoint 10Gbps Product Line

JDSU today introduced stressed receiver sensitivity (SRS) functionality to its TestPoint 10Gbps product line.

25 Feb 2008

Thin-Film and Organic Photovoltaics Will Reach $3.8 Billion by 2015

Materials for use in thin-film and organic photovoltaics (PV) will reach $3.8 billion by 2015, according to a new study by NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm.

25 Feb 2008

CoreOptics Announces Availability of MLSE Technology for Optical Networks

CoreOptics Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of 40Gbps and 10Gbps optical networking subsystems announced availability of the second generation of its Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation (MLSE) technology for deployment in metro/regional optical networks.

25 Feb 2008

High-Bandwidth Subsea Fiber Optic Cable Linking U.S. and Japan

A consortium of six international companies announced they have executed agreements to build a high-bandwidth subsea fiber optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The construction of the new Trans-Pacific infrastructure will cost an estimated US$300 million.

25 Feb 2008

Researchers Demonstrates New Type of Optical Tweezer

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) demonstrated a new type of optical tweezer with the potential to make biological and microfluidic force measurements in integrated systems such as microfluidic chips.

25 Feb 2008

Novel Design Enables Double-Patterning-Lithography

In a potential boost to advance lithography, engineers at SEMATECH and Carl Zeiss SMT today announced the completion of their final design for the next generation Photomask Registration and Overlay Metrology system – called PROVE.

25 Feb 2008

New High Power Tunable Laser Generates All Commonly Used Wavelengths

NeoPhotonics, a leading supplier of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) based components, modules and subsystems for the telecom and CATV industries, will debut at OFC a new high power tunable laser for DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) networks that has an output power of 40 mW and other features ideal for DQPSK coding and 40 Gbps systems.

25 Feb 2008

Revolutionary EFB Technology Wins the Prestigious New Machinery Promotion Award

OKI Printing Solutions today announced that its revolutionary Epi Film Bonding (EFB) technology has been awarded the most prestigious New Machinery Promotion Award by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan.

25 Feb 2008

NEC Receives FDA Clearance for 5-Megapixel Grayscale Monitor

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading stand-alone provider of commercial and residential LCD, plasma, and projector displays, today announced 510k market clearance for radiology from the Food & Drug Administration for the MD205MG 5-megapixel flat-panel monitor.

25 Feb 2008

JDSU Announces Availability of its Pocket-Sized Family of Fiber Optic Testers

JDSU today announced that its pocket-sized family of fiber optic testers is now available through an authorized network of distributors.

25 Feb 2008

World's Smallest 10Gbps 4-Channel Parallel Fiber Optic Transceiver

NEC Corporation today announced that it will launch samples of the world's smallest 10Gbps 4-channel parallel fiber optic transceiver.

25 Feb 2008

Designers Now Have a Complete Solution to Connect Large Core Optical Fibers

Molex Incorporated and Polymicro Technologies, a subsidiary of Molex, announced today that Molex LumaCore-based interconnects can incorporate Polymicro's large core, optical fibers.

25 Feb 2008

Zecotek Announces Manufacturing and Commercialization Agreement

Zecotek Photonics Inc. today announced that Zecotek Laser Systems Singapore Pte Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Fujikura Ltd, Japan to develop, manufacture and commercialize Zecotek and Fujikura laser products, associated components and systems, including Zecotek’s crystal and fiber based lasers and Fujikura’s infra-red fiber lasers.

25 Feb 2008

With Integrated Optical Service, Life Becomes Simpler

Verizon is now making available to its service provider customers the same super-efficient networking technology that Verizon uses to concentrate data streams from multiple transport protocols over high-capacity secure networks.

25 Feb 2008

Company Creates Industry’s First ROADM Device Based on DLP Technology

Nistica, a global supplier of agile optical modules to leading telecom system OEMs, announced today the launch of its new FULL FLEDGE subsystem to meet growing demand for cost-effective Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Modules (ROADMs) in core network nodes.

25 Feb 2008