St. Jude Medical and Volcano Corp. have apparently decided to stand down when it comes to lawsuits related to technologies including tunable lasers used in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging systems. The two companies have agreed ...
For second-quarter 2014, 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 ...
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Ushio Inc of Tokyo, Japan (which manufactures light sources including lamps, lasers and LEDs) says that its subsidiary Ushio Opto Semiconductors Inc (established in July) has agreed to acquire the LED, red, violet and part of the infrared ...
For first-quarter 2014, 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 ...
Intel hopes to take hardware performance to the next level with its latest Xeon Phi supercomputing chip, which packs an array of new hardware technologies that could eventually find their way to laptops and desktops. The new Xeon Phi ...
UK-based aerospace, defense and security technology provider QinetiQ Group plc has acquired Redfern Integrated Optics Inc (RIO) of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2000 in Australia before moving to San Francisco, CA, USA in 2003, RIO is ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter (ended 27 April), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported its seventh consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, to a record $306m (up ...
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QD Laser Inc of Kanagawa, Japan and the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics (NanoQuine) at the University of Tokyo have announced the development of wearable see-through display Laser Eyewear (LEW) based on laser retina ...
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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) is adding to its QUAD HIFREQ series of high-power surface-mount multilayer ceramic chipThe main differences between ceramic dielectricThe insulating material between the plates of the capacitor. The ...
Some says “if it can be made on Silicon, it will be made on silicon”. Is that true for GaN too? And if so, can it be applied in all GaN-based applications: LED, power, RF and laser?… Yole Développement (Yole) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Power Electronics
In a further move to strengthen its leading position in the market for light-emitting diodes (LED), Osram today officially opened its LED assembly plant in Wuxi, China. The factory has a floor area of about 100,000 square meters and will ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has joined a new consortium to establish a pan-European supply chain capability for the high-volume production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for ...
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Laser Encoders Enable High-Accuracy Machining of Composite Parts Flow International Corp.'s Composites Machining Center (CMC) hits the mark for single-setup processing of 40-meter-long composite wing skins, and one of the keys to holding ...
Global market for industrial laser systems worth $10.7BN in 2013, says Optech’s Arnold Mayer. Respected industrial laser market forecaster Arnold Mayer says that the global market for laser materials processing systems hit a record ...
In booth#15-10 at Photonix 2014 in Tokyo, Japan (16-18 April), QD Laser Inc of Kanagawa, Japan has launched a picosecond pulsed driver board integrated with its QLD1x6x series 1μm-wavelength-range (1020-1180nm) 14-pin butterfly ...
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