Emcore Corp, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optics market, has named Jeffrey Rittichier as CEO. He succeeds Dr Hong Hou, who has served as president & CEO since March 2008. Rittichier has ...
Tags: fiber-optics, market, Electrical
DILAS Diode Laser Inc in Tucson, AZ, USA, a subsidiary of diode laser maker DILAS of Mainz, Germany, has appointed Dr Chris Ebert as its new business development director & regional sales manager (East). The firm says that Ebert has an ...
Tags: diode laser, in-situ temperature, Electrical
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics expects consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2014 to decrease on quarter by 10-15% and sales for the first quarter of 2015 to increase by about 10%, according to the company. ...
Tags: LED epitaxial wafer, LCD TVs, Lights
Researchers from Canada’s Université Laval’s faculty of science and engineering and center for optics, photonics, and lasers have developed smart textiles that can monitor and transmit the wearers’ biomedical ...
AUREA Technology of Besancon, France has launched its newly designed SPD_NIR_OEM_120MHz fast NIR single-photon-counting OEM module, which is claimed to be the most compact and fastest near-infrared [900-1700nm] single-photon-detection ...
Tags: single-photon-detection module, quantum technology, Electrical
EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) has established the NILPhotonics Competence Center, which is designed to assist customers ...
Mellanox Technologies Ltd of Sunnyvale, CA, USA and Yokneam, Israel, a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for data-center servers and storage systems, has announced sample availability of ...
Researchers based in China have found “remarkably reduced efficiency droop” from staircase (SC) thin indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum barrier (QB) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Kun Zhou et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol105, ...
Tags: High Current, remarkably reduced efficiency droop, Electrical
Taiwan-based makers from the LED lighting sector have been tapping emerging markets, including Indonesia, Thailand, India, Russia and Brazil, as they face fierce competition in North America, Europe, Japan and China, according to industry ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED Lighting
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and space solar power markets, has entered into a definitive purchase agreement for NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, ...
Tags: Tunable Laser, Transceiver Product
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that, in third-quarter 2014 China’s Suzhou Nanojoin Photonics Co Ltd ordered multiple TurboDisc MaxBright M metal-organic chemical vapor ...
In booth 376 at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2014) in Cannes, France (22-24 September), optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of Chatsworth, CA, USA is giving a live demonstration of ...
Optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of Chatsworth, CA, USA has announced what it claims is the first integrated, pluggable Gigiabit passive optical networks (GPON) SFP optical networking unit (ONU) with 1 ...
Tags: Source Photonics, GPON
BinOptics Corp of Ithaca, NY, USA,which provides lasers for data centers, mobile backhaul, access and silicon photonics, has announced the availability of 25G lasers at four wavelengths (1270, 1290, 1310 and 1330nm), allowing 100G solutions ...
Tags: BinOptics, 4x25g Lasers, Electronics
For August, Taiwan's WIN Semiconductors Corp (the world's largest pure-play gallium arsenide foundry) has reported revenue of NT$1.04bn (US$34.5m) - its highest revenue in the past 12 months - up 7.41% on July and up 23.45% on a year ago. ...