Imec and Ghent University in Belgium have used aspect ratio trapping (ART) techniques to produce indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) on 300mm-diameter silicon in a ridge format that could be used in future laser ...
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In booth #384 at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2016) in Düsseldorf, Germany (19-22 September), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is ...
Tags: Oclaro, ECOC 2016, 400GBASE-LR8 CFP8 optical transceiver
EV Group of St Florian, Austria - a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for semiconductor, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), compound semiconductors, power devices and nanotechnology applications says that a HERCULES ...
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In booth #384 at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2016) in Düsseldorf, Germany (19-21 September), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is ...
Tags: Oclaro, CFP2-ACO transceiver
Fabless silicon photonics firm of Carlsbad, CA, USA says that it has shipped more than 1 million silicon photonic PSM4 (parallel single-mode fiber 4-lane) transceiver products. TheLuxtera firm's patented technology combines the long-reach ...
The 4WDM MSA (4-wavelength Wavelength Division Multiplexing Multi-Source Agreement) Group has announced its formation as an industry consortium dedicated to defining optical specifications and promoting the adoption of interoperable 100G ...
Tags: 4WDM MSA, 100G optical modules
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 teamed up to seamlessly connect its ...
Tags: Mellanox, Oclaro, silicon photonics AOC
Kaiam Corp of Newark, CA, USA - a private company founded in 2009 commercializing hybrid photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology for pluggable optical transceivers in data-centers - has launched the new platform LightScale2. The ...
Tags: Kaiam, platform LightScale2, PIC technology
For first-half 2016, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported revenue of £63m, up 18% on £53.2m in first-half 2015 (above the "at least 15% growth" given in a trading update in late July), ...
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Researchers in China have achieved continuous wave (cw) lasing at room temperature for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) grown directly on silicon (Si) [Yi Sun et al, Nature Photonics, 10, p595, 2016]. The team from Suzhou ...
Tags: InGaN Laser diodes, cw, SINANO
Researchers in Russia have developed an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum well laser diode on (001) germanium-on-silicon 'virtual substrate' without offcut angle [V. Ya. Aleshkin et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p061111, 2016]. ...
Tags: InGaAs, Laser diodes, III-Vs-on-Si
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 the availability of 25Gb/s ...
PhoeniX Software B.V. of Enschede, The Netherlands - a vendor of photonic design automation (PDA) software used to synthesize integrated photonic circuits - has become a member of the consortium AIM Photonics (American Institute for ...
Tags: EDA software, photoniX, PDA, AIM Photonics
The project MIRPHAB (MidInfraRed PHotonics devices fABrication for chemical sensing and spectroscopic applications) has unveiled a chemical sensor capable of detecting drugs and explosives from a distance of 30m. Lasting from the ...
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A group of Texas Tech University researchers led by professors Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin has developed hexagonal boron nitride semiconductor as a possible low-cost alternative to helium gas detectors in neutron detection ('Realization ...