Chinese TV producer Shen Jian (right) is a frequent guest at influential film events, such as the Academy Awards ceremony. [Photo provided to China Daily] Ang Lee turned down a number of interview requests from world media when his ...
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Sandia National Laboratories in the USA has reported aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) laser structures emitting ~350nm ultraviolet radiation from optical and electrical pumping [Mary H. Crawford et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol8, p112702, ...
Tags: AlGaN, ultraviolet lasers, LEDs
Despite the apparent saturation of optical coherence tomography systems in the ophthalmology markets of developed countries, the distinct OCT market for healthcare and life science sectors is still expected to grow from around €500 ...
In booth #702 at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015) in Valencia, Spain (28-30 September), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of high-speed semiconductor and optical communications components for ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced early sampling of a 400Gb/s high electro-optic bandwidth lithium niobate (LiNbO3) external modulator for designing ...
Joachim Piprek, founder & president of NUSOD Institute LLC in the USA, has run simulations that he believes eliminate electron leakage as the primary cause of efficiency droop at high current in blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Appl. ...
Imec of Leuven, Belgium and its partners have completed a three-year program (2012-2015) to leverage a variety of silicon photonics technologies by making them accessible for industry and academia worldwide. Within the ESSenTIAL program ...
Tags: Silicon photonics, ESSenTIAL program, electrical equipment
In hall B1 (booth 403) at Laser World of Photonics 2015 in Munich, Germany (22-25 June), II-VI Suwtech of Shanghai, China – a subsidiary of engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA ...
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Researchers in Korea and USA have developed sidewall emission-enhanced (SEE) deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to improve light extraction efficiency DUV LEDs with wavelengths less than 300nm become very inefficient due ...
Tags: Light-Emitting Diodes, LEDs
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used indium tin oxide (ITO) as part of the cladding for semi-polar indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) [A. Pourhashemi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p111105, 2015]. The ...
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The computing and telecoms industries are developing systems to store information in the cloud and analyze enormous amounts of data. IBM Research says that it has demonstrated what could be a key step toward commercializing this next ...
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In booth #1225 at the Optical Fiber Conference conference & exposition (OFC 2015) in Los Angeles (24-26 March), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for ...
Tags: TFPS, datacom demo, Electronics
Lawrence Livermore researchers have identified electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See CoulombA coulomb is the unit of electric ...
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Diode laser maker DILAS of Mainz, Germany has expanded the wavelength range of its tailored bar-based, scalable concept with its new high-brightness fiber-laser pump module delivering up to 240W optical output power at 915nm. Based on ...
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McGill University in Canada claims to have created the first electrically injected rolled-up semiconductor tube laser [M. H. T. Dastjerdi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p021114, 2015]. Although rolled-up heterostructure lasers have been ...
Tags: optical pumping, tube lasers, Electrical