Micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France says that it will coordinate a four-year project aimed at building a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics and speeding industrialization of the technology. The ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks) has appointed photonics integration veteran ...
Tags: GigOptix, Senior Photonic Packaging and Integration Architect
At the 2013 SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco (5-7 February), VI Systems GmbH of Berlin, Germany (a fabless spin-off of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St Petersburg, ...
Tags: VI Systems, UIUC, VCSEL, Multimode Fiber
Coming on the heel of the resignations from Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the supervisory board) of Aixtron, the company has announced that Paul Hyland, ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany has announced that its president and chief executive officer Paul Hyland will leave the firm by mutual agreement with effect from 28 February 2013, for personal reasons. Martin ...
Ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) maker Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETi) of Columbia, SC, USA has launched a new line of UVTOP products in surface mount packages at the 2013 SPIE Photonics West show. Initial devices added ...
Ocean Optics has recently been recognised with an ‘OFweek 2012 Best LED Service Supplier Award’ by China’s high technology portal OFweek photonics news. Since its entry into the Chinese market, Ocean Optics has ...
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A Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography (QC) team says it successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography provides a means of ...
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NANEO Precision IBS Coatings GmbH of Rheinbreitbach, Germany, which produces custom-made precision optical coatings for high-end applications in the laser and photonics industry, recently ordered a SPECTOR ion beam deposition (IBD) system ...
Tags: Veeco IBD, ion beam deposition, Electronics
Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar hears cautious but positive forecasts. Growth in global sales of lasers and laser systems this year will range from flat to only a modest improvement of a few percentage points, according to ...
Optical components, modules and subsystems developer Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA has announced advances in its red laser diodes that has enabled it to reduce the size of 4-beam red laser diodes by 75% (from TO9.0mm to TO5.6mm) and ...
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With the target of drawing academic and industrial expertise together to address the solid-state lighting/electronics interface and its implications for custom-controlled lighting systems, Scotland’s University of Strathclyde is ...
Tags: ILC, Li-Fi technology, LED array, LEDs
At next week's Photonics West Conference (5 – 7 February) in San Francisco, optical components, modules and subsystems developer Oclaro of San Jose, CA, USA will be showcasing an expanded portfolio of laser diodes that now includes ...
Microstructures of alternative TCE materials: e, Scanning electron microscopy image of a Cu grid with a line width of 200 nm (ref. 41). f, Scanning electron microscopy image of an Ag nanowire network (mass density 93 mg m−2)77. g, ...
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Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics has obtained orders from the largest Russia-based LED packager and lighting maker, with monthly shipments exceeding one million LED chips, while Taiwan-based LED packaging ...
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