In booth 616 at the SPIE Photonics West 2015 event in San Francisco's Moscone Center (7-12 February), Marktech Optoelectronics of Latham, NY, USA, whose capabilities span wafer growth through finished packaging and custom solutions, is to ...
Tags: photodetectors, Electrical
McGill University in Canada claims to have created the first electrically injected rolled-up semiconductor tube laser [M. H. T. Dastjerdi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p021114, 2015]. Although rolled-up heterostructure lasers have been ...
Tags: optical pumping, tube lasers, Electrical
Researchers at Japan's NTT Device Technology Laboratories have used silicon (Si) doping to achieve p-type conduction in gallium arsenide antimony (GaAsSb) produced with metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) on indium phosphide ...
Fabless design house VLC Photonics of Valencia, Spain - which provides optical integration solutions and services including photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design or in-house chip characterization and test, together with fabless ...
Tags: Wafer Standard Design Services, packaging services, Electrical
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, ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has received a new purchase order for indium phosphide (InP) materials worth $3.25m from a leading global substrate manufacturer. Produced by IQE’s Wafer Technology ...
Tags: Wafer Technology, Electrical
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA, which provides compound semiconductor-based optical components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics market, has completed the sale of its tunable laser and transceiver ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc (MACOM) of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has completed its acquisition (announced on 18 November) of ...
Researchers have demonstrated how noise in a microwave amplifier is limited by self-heating at very low temperatures (J Schleeh et al, ‘Phonon black-body radiation limit for heat dissipation in electronics’, Nature Materials, 10 ...
Tags: Microwave Amplifier, transistor
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 27 September 2014), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $89.2m (at the high end of the $83-91m ...
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and space solar power markets, has entered into a definitive purchase agreement for NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, ...
Tags: Tunable Laser, Transceiver Product
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden have designed a microwave circuit that has set a record transmission rate of 40Gb/s for an operating frequency of 140GHz (presented in the session ‘Breaking News ...
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers, has announced the sale of the gallium arsenide (GaAs) epitaxy business of its Soitec Specialty Electronics ...
Tags: sale of GaAs, IntelliEPI, Electronics
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, ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, Transceiver, Electrical
Beyond all of the hype and tumult, market drivers and technological developments are converging to ensure a bright future for silicon photonics, according to the ‘Silicon Photonics 2014’ report from Yole Développement. ...
Tags: Silicon Photonics