Toray Industries is bolstering production of high-performance fibers in emerging countries in Asia to reap the benefits of anticipated demand growth. “Textiles is a growth industry if you look at it on the global scale,” said ...
Tags: Textiles, expanding emerging markets, strengthening supply systems
In booth #3645 at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC 2014) conference & exposition in San Francisco (11-13 March), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has demonstrated several new ...
Tags: Finisar, Electrical, Electronics, optical module ecosystem, Optical Fiber
In a rare public speech, Google Inc. CEO Larry Page once suggested the tech industry needs "safe places where we can try out new things" without rules or interference. Some people thought he was describing a futuristic fantasy, perhaps a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Google X, Google
VDMA's Photonics Congress forecasts rapid growth of the sector in Germany and beyond. Industrialists and politicians mingled at Photonics Congress 2014 in Berlin. At last month’s Photonics Congress 2014, which was hosted in ...
Tags: Photonics, GDP Growth
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that its epitaxial wafer technology has been used in conjunction with the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) to help develop 1.3μm-emitting quantum dot ...
Tags: silicon technology, semiconductor devices, laser components
At the Optical Fiber Communication conference & exposition (OFC 2014) in San Francisco (11-13 March), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave ...
Tags: optoelectronic switching solution, optic modules, pluggable modules
At the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2014) in San Francisco (9–13 March), the fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA is demonstrating a 100G ...
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, ...
In booth 3448 at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC 2014) conference & exposition in San Francisco (11-13 March), CIVCOM Devices & Systems Ltd of Petach Tikva, Israel (a subsidiary of optical transmission system maker Padtec S/A of ...
Tags: Civcom, Electrical, Electronics
As demand surges for long-reach, low-power solutions supporting next-generation 28Gbps products and data-center applications, high-speed fiber-optic interconnect firm Molex Inc of Lisle, IL, USA plans to unveil a line of QuatroScale active ...
Tags: Molex AOC, Electrical, Electronics
Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on YouTube. But you don't use the tiny screen; your phone projects a bright, clear image onto a ...
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% ...
In booth #1531 at the Optical Fiber Communication conference & exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2014) in San Francisco, CA (11-13 March), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog ...
Tags: coherent optical link design, live demonstration, VCSEL driver
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
BASF has increased the production capacity of Ultramid C for flexible food packaging films at its production site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The company has converted a part of its Ultramid B (polyamide 6) production facility to produce ...
Tags: BASF, Packaging, production capacity