Microscan, a global manufacturer and pioneer of auto ID solutions from the world’s first laser diode barcode scanner to the Data Matrix symbol, has introduced the world’s smallest barcode readers for installation into OEM ...
Tags: Microscan, barcode reader
Lasers and infrared LEDs for self-driving cars More than ten years ago, Osram Opto Semiconductors supplied infrared laser diodes for the first laser sensors in cars. As one of the first suppliers of powerful infrared LEDs (IREDs), Osram ...
Tags: Lasers, self-driving cars, LEDs
Speaking at a press conference with Taiwanese media at Semicon Taiwan on Sept. 2, 2015, Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura shared his observations on lighting technology trends and commented on Taiwanese LED manufacturers situation. Nakamura ...
Jijun Feng and Ryoichi Akimoto based in China and Japan have developed low-threshold green and green-yellow laser diodes (LDs) based on a beryllium zinc cadmium selenide (BeZnCdSe) quantum well [Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p161101, 2015]. ...
Tags: laser diodes, zirconium dioxide
Whisper it softly, but, ten years since the telecom bubble burst, we may be about to witness another boom in sales of optical components for communications infrastructure. Analysts at Lightcounting, which specializes in forecasting the ...
Tags: photonic devices, telecom, datacom systems
The optoelectronic components market is expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.41% from 2015 to $55.53bn by 2020, according to the report 'Optoelectronic Components Market by Component (LED, Laser Diode, Image ...
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
Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI) of Sugar Land, near Houston, TX, USA, a manufacturer of fiber-optic access network products (including components, modules and equipment) has announced a new optical engine for use in 100Gbps transceivers ...
Tags: Optical Engine, fiber-optic
University of Oklahoma in the USA has developed interband cascade (IC) lasers on indium arsenide (InAs) substrates with low threshold and high-current operation [Lu Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p251102, 2015]. The researchers claim ...
University of Oklahoma in the USA has developed interband cascade (IC) lasers on indium arsenide (InAs) substrates with low threshold and high-current operation [Lu Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p251102, 2015]. The researchers claim ...
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is launching the ML562G84 638nm-wavelength red laser diode (LD), offering what is claimed to be record output power (under pulsed operation) of 2.5W for a 638nm projector light source. The record ...
In hall B1 (booth 403) at Laser World of Photonics 2015 in Munich, Germany (22-25 June), engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA – represented by its subsidiaries II-VI Suwtech of China ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used indium tin oxide (ITO) as part of the cladding for semi-polar indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) [A. Pourhashemi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p111105, 2015]. The ...
Tags: Indium, InGaN substrates, Electrical
At the Optical Fiber Communication conference & exposition 2015 (OFC 2015) in Los Angeles, CA (22-26 March), Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp is unveiling a distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode for 25Gbps fiber-optic communications in ...
OSI Laser Diode Inc (LDI) of Edison, NJ, USA (an OSI Systems Company) has launched the SCW 1632-350R high-power pulsed laser diode module for optical testing applications. Housed in a 14-pin butterfly package, the ridge waveguide (RWG) ...