Investment in 100G optical communications systems worldwide during 2013 was “breathtaking”, according to a new market report published today by Infonetics Research. Andrew Schmitt, principal analyst for optical at the company ...
According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, the wavelength division multiplexer or WDM market grew 10 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2014 reaching a new record revenue level of $2.6 billion. The ...
In the optical communications markets, demand for 40G transceivers is now “ramping up hard” as data centers deploy 40GbE (Ethernet), particularly as a high-density 10G interface via breakout cables. Also, 40G QSFP (quad small ...
Tags: optical communications markets, transceiver, single-mode fiber
The global wavelength division multiplexer (WDM) equipment market grew 23% sequentially in Q2 2015, according to the latest report from Dell'Oro Group, an analyst of the telecommunications, networks, and data center IT industries. During ...
Flat-panel computer monitors capable of producing an unprecedented range of colors are going on sale in Europe next month, thanks to quantum dot technology that appears on the verge of making a major impact on the displays industry. ...
On a sleepless night in early spring of 2013, standing on the balcony of his New York apartment, choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung saw the sky begin to fill with a magical blue hue. For some 20 minutes, the sun was still below the horizon but ...
Tags: Dancers, Blue Hour, folk dancing
A few weeks ago, Hollywood actress Jessica Alba created a buzz on the Internet with her anti-age LED skin care treatment. Turns out LEDs market potential in the beauty sector extends to weight loss, and for those aiming to stay thin and ...
Tags: red LED, U.S.doctor, NLAL
UVLrx Therapeutics announces that it has received CE marking to commercially sell its UVLrx 1500 multi-wavelength, intravenous light therapy system in the European Union. The UVLrx 1500 System offers the first intravenous, concurrent ...
Tags: UVLrx, UV LED Therapy Device, EU Consumers
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has developed a near ultra-violet and all-organic light emitting diode (OLED) that can be used as an on-chip photosensor. It’s a first in a rather specialized field of research ...
Tags: DOE, Ames Laboratory, OLED UV
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA, which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets, has expanded its range of laser diode and avalanche photodiode ...
Tags: optical chips, subsystems
TeraXion Inc of Quebec City, Canada (which designs and manufactures optoelectronic components and modules for high-speed fiber-optic transmission networks as well as fiber lasers and optical sensing applications) says that access to ...
Tags: TeraXion, InP modulators, drivers, receivers
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) says that - in booth #536 at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015) in Valencia, Spain (27 September - 1 ...
Tags: Oclaro, QSFP28, modulated laser, transceiver
Researchers based in China and Canada have developed single-mode ridge waveguide Fabry-Perot (RW FP) laser diodes using a pair of etched trenches that are slanted to reflect out unwanted wavelengths [Xun Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
Tags: laser diodes, packages
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical transport networking systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has appointed Rajal M. Patel to its ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed an n-type gallium nitride (n-GaN) tunnel junction (TJ) intracavity contact to reduce threshold current and increase differential efficiency in its m-plane III-nitride ...
Tags: VCSEL, n-GaN, GaN substrates, MOCVD, MBE