Optics and Photonics News

RSS

First Real Solution for Monitoring Fiber Optic Installations

Net Optics, Inc. addresses the needs for a flexible solution that allows you to easily monitor 10Gbase-LX4 networks. The primarily SR and LR 10Gigabit based monitoring tools available today can now be leveraged across multiple 10Gigabit fiber networks within your organization. Up to this point, customers had no real way of seeing the traffic on their LX4 networks.

7 Jan 2008

Breakthrough in Ultra-Compact LED-Illuminated Projection Engine

3M is now providing consumer electronics manufacturers with a revolutionary advancement in the emerging field of miniature projection technology. 3M scientists developed a breakthrough ultra-compact, LED-illuminated projection engine designed for integration into virtually any personal electronic device.

6 Jan 2008

Fibre Lasers Opens the Door to New Applications

The two main goals of the project were to develop ultra-fast laser systems operating at different wavelengths, and to develop and test broadband fibre sources.

6 Jan 2008

ESI Announces Initiative to Increase Global Sales and Support Infrastructure

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for micro-engineering applications, today announced that it will directly represent its memory repair products in Japan and separate from Canon Marketing Japan Inc., its distributor.

6 Jan 2008

Ondax Introduces Wavelength Stabilized Laser Diodes

Ondax, a leading manufacturer of Volume Holographic Gratings, expands its product portfolio with the introduction of Wavelength Stabilized 405nm Laser Diodes. The stabilized lasers have a single-mode, narrow linewidth, very low temperature dependence and a coherence length of 1 meter. The lasers exhibit stable interference fringes after greater than 6 meters path length difference.

5 Jan 2008

Switched On To New Technology

Researchers are developing new technology that could replace the household light-bulb within three years.

5 Jan 2008

OSRAM Wins Prize for Their Development of LED-Based Illumination Modules

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has carried out pioneering work in the development of thin-film LEDs – supported by Fraunhofer researchers from Jena. The team of researchers has won the German Future Prize 2007 for their development of LED-based illumination modules.

4 Jan 2008

Mobius Photonics Enters Exclusive Licensing Agreement with Harvard University

Mobius Photonics Inc. announced today that it has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Harvard University regarding United States patent #5,745,284. The patent is based on the pioneering work of Lew Goldberg, Dahv Kliner, and Jeffrey Koplow. It broadly covers UV laser sources based on the harmonic wavelength conversion of the output of a seeded amplifier, particularly a fiber amplifier.

3 Jan 2008

Cepid Infrared Systems Releases Dual FoV Thermal Imaging Module for Long Range Surveillance

Cedip Infrared Systems has announced the PROTON MW-IR Dual FoV Thermal Imaging Module for researchers and integrators looking to develop and build their own long range surveillance system. $$IMAGE$$ Incorporating ...

2 Jan 2008

Leading IC Manufacturer Places Order for ESI TFOS Laser-Trimming Systems

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced that it has received a substantial order from a leading North American analog integrated circuit (IC) manufacturer for its Model 2100 thin-film-on-silicon (TFOS) laser-trimming system.

1 Jan 2008