NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for high-speed communications networks, ...
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% ...
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
An international team of researchers has used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to take snapshots of free molecules. The research team headed by Prof. Jochen Küpper of the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) ...
Wind turbines, like any machine with moving parts, can fail. They have a useful life span, after which the loading on the various pieces including turbine blades and tower could cause decreases in efficiency or, in very rare cases, outright ...
Tags: CeBIT, Monitor Oscillation, Fraunhofer Institute, laser
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 ...
Tags: Lasers, 3D printing, Nogee, GDP
The UK’s University of Leeds has fabricated what is claimed to be the world’s most powerful terahertz (THz) laser chip, exceeding 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade laser (QCL) (Lianhe Li et al, ‘Terahertz quantum ...
Tags: Laser Chip, Electronics
Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have suggested a method that could significantly increase the efficiency of green-blue-ultraviolet LEDs based on GaInN/GaN, AlGaN/GaN and AlInN/GaN quantum wells. It is reckoned that ...
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, ...
Tags: Silicon, `Quantum Dot Lasers
University of Notre Dame (UND) is developing gallium nitride (GaN) quantum dots in aluminium nitride (AlN) as a route to deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jai Verma et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v104, p021105, 2014]. ...
Tags: UV Light Emission, LEDs
University of Leeds researchers have taken the lead in the race to build the world's most powerful terahertz laser chip. A paper in the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) journal Electronics Letters reports that the Leeds ...
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
For its fiscal second-quarter 2014 (ended 28 December 2013), JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has reported revenue of $447.6m, up 4% on $429m last quarter and $429.4m a year ago (and above the guidance of $420-440m). By sector, 44.2% of revenue ...
Spreading salt on roadways is still the most cost-effective tool for preventing death, injury, and property damage from winter traffic accidents around the world. In 2011, highway departments in the U.S. alone spread 19.6 million tons ...
Yole Developpement has forecasted that the grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. materials market will ...
Tags: Graphene Market, Electronics