Engineers trying to speed up communication between computer chips have been working on using beams of light to replace the copper traces that shuttle data between microprocessors. Now a pair of researchers at Northeastern University in ...
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 ...
Laser sales set to grow with recovering economies 10 Feb 2014 Seminar in San Francisco hears that sensing applications will be a key growth driver in the coming years. Lasers on show The global laser industry, strong in many areas ...
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Germany’s VDMA predicts positive prospects for machine vision 13 Feb 2014 National market expected to grow by 5% in 2014; Frankfurt roundtable assesses global opportunities. The German machine vision (MV) industry is on a stable ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and epiwafer foundry IQE Inc have developed 1.3μm-wavelength indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) lasers grown on silicon (Si) with “record performance” [Alan Y. Liu et al, ...
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In October of last year, a team from NASA and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory made space communications history by beaming data, via laser, at speeds reaching 622 megabits per second, to Earth from a spacecraft orbiting the moon. Radio-frequency ...
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LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has received orders with shipments scheduled through the second quarter of 2014, according to the company. Epistar said it has fully utilized its production capacity in Taiwan. It expects the ...
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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 ...
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Excelitas Technologies Corp of Waltham, MA, USA, which provides customized optoelectronics to OEMs, has announced the availability of an enhanced series of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) that provide high responsivity for ultra-low-light ...
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At the SPIE Photonics West 2014 conference in San Francisco (3-6 February), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK is presenting a series of invited papers on recent developments in photonic technologies: ...
The global silicon photonics market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate(CAGR)of 24.5%from$88.6m in 2013 to$410.78m in 2020,according to the report'Silicon Photonics Market by Products(Silicon Optical ...
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Tokyo-based Nikkiso Co Ltd,which is developing and commercializing deep ultraviolet(UV)light-emitting diodes,says that it is establishing a new factory in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture.The firm aims to start production in mid-2014 and install ...
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Another wave of industry restructuring is expected to occur in Taiwan and China as LED lighting penetration rates continue to rise, according to Chinese-language Apple Daily report. LEDinside and Photonics Industry and Technology ...
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SPIE Photonics West 2014—Attend the largest and most influential event for the laser and photonics community in North America: 20,000 attendees, two exhibitions, 1,300 exhibiting companies, a wide range of papers on ...
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When molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) entered the conversation related to two-dimensional (2-D) alternatives to graphene in electronic applications, some thought that MoS2 had an edge as a transistor material. That thought was inspired by the ...
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