Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on YouTube. But you don't use the tiny screen; your phone projects a bright, clear image onto a ...
For its fiscal third-quarter 2014 (ended 26 January), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported a sixth consecutive quarter of revenue growth, to a record $294m. This is up 1.1% ...
In booth #1531 at the Optical Fiber Communication conference & exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2014) in San Francisco, CA (11-13 March), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog ...
Tags: coherent optical link design, live demonstration, VCSEL driver
Furukawa Electric Co Ltd of Tokyo, Japan has developed a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that operates at 25Gbps and has realized transmission of up to 500m over prototype multimode fibers developed by optical fiber product ...
Tags: optical fiber product, cloud computing, Increasing the VCSEL wavelength
The ability to locate and count small numbers of impurity atoms could lead to advances in modern electronics and optical fiber communication networks. In research published today in Physical Review Letters, physicists from Monash ...
Tags: Spectrum Imaging, Measure Atom Concentrations, Atomic Resolution
American Technical Ceramics Corp. (ATC), the leader in design and manufacture of high RF power ceramic capacitor assembly products, will be exhibiting a wide range of specialty thin film components at the OFC 2014 Conference in San ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of Chatsworth, CA, USA has announced what it claims is the first 100Gb/s LR4 optical transceiver in the compact QSFP28 form factor. Based on the IEEE 100GBASE-LR4 standard, the ...
Tags: Source Photonics, Electrical, Electronics
In Stand #2203 at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC 2014) in San Francisco (11-13 March), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and ...
Tags: Optical Fiber, Electronics
As science and technology go nano, scientists search for new tools to manipulate, observe and modify the "building blocks" of matter at the nanometer scale. With this in mind, the recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology in which ICFO ...
Tags: Nano-Tweezers, Nano-Objects, nano
Sales of optical splitters, fiber sensors set for significant growth 27 Feb 2014 FTTH deployment dominates the PLC splitter market, while military and aerospace still taking lion’s share of sensors. The FTTH market is a great ...
Tags: Optical Splitters, Fiber Sensors
IBM has set a new speed record for data transmission over multimode optical fiber (which is typically used to connect nearby computers within a single building or on a campus). The researchers reckon that the achievement demonstrated that ...
Tags: Optical Fiber, IBM, Data Transmission
How do you build a universal quantum computer? Turns out, this question was addressed by theoretical physicists about 15 years ago. The answer was laid out in a research paper and has become known as the DiVincenzo criteria. The ...
Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature – a property ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that its laser epiwafer technology has been employed to develop ultra-high-efficiency optical interconnects, as reported in two technical papers presented by Germany's ...
Tags: IQE, laser epiwafer technology, laser, wafers
Surgeons' best tools for locating tumors inside the body are often their hands. But during minimally invasive surgeries—which can reduce recovery time by days—the ability to examine tissue through touch, called palpation, is ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics