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Inphi Announces Production Availability of New Quad Linear Drivers in Smaller SMT Package for High-Volume Applications

Inphi Corporation, a leader in high-speed data movement interconnects, today announced the production availability of a new product in its 32GBaud Linear Coherent Product Family.

19 Sep 2016

New Fiber-Optics Technology May Enhance Monitoring of Structural Health under Extreme Conditions

Structural health monitoring systems traditionally use piezoelectric transducers—a device which converts pressure to electric voltage.

16 Sep 2016

ADVA Optical Networking, Saguna Networks to Demonstrate New Mobile Enterprise Services Architecture at ETSI MEC PoC Zone

ADVA Optical Networking and Saguna Networks announced today that they will stage a joint demonstration with Bezeq International of a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) proof of concept (PoC) for enterprise services at MEC Congress.

16 Sep 2016

New Integrated Optofluidic Platform for Optical Analysis and Biological Sample Processing

Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt has been involved in the development of devices for optical testing of samples on integrated chip-based platforms for the last ten years, with the aim to use them in areas such as virus detection, biological sensors, and chemical analysis.

15 Sep 2016

TU Wien Scientists Find Way to Compress Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) found a way to compress ultrashort laser pulses, increasing its peak power to half a terawatt – which is equivalent to the output of hundreds of nuclear reactors.

14 Sep 2016

Lumentum to Display at Nine Optical Communications and Commercial Lasers Tradeshows Worldwide in Next Three Months

Lumentum Holdings Inc. (“Lumentum”) announced it would exhibit at nine optical communications and commercial lasers tradeshows worldwide in the next three months.

13 Sep 2016

Phoseon to Showcase LED Curing Solutions for Optical Technology at All About Photonics 2016: LED Japan 2016 Exhibition

Phoseon will showcase the latest LED curing solutions at the upcoming All about Photonics 2016: LED Japan 2016 Exhibition.

13 Sep 2016

University of Arkansas Receives Funding from Department of Energy to Continue Research on Optocoupler

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $599,901 to University of Arkansas engineering researchers to continue developing an “optocoupler” – a packaged light emitter and detector – to improve the performance of electric vehicles.

12 Sep 2016

Sony Offers Advanced Super 35mm / APS-C Format Power Zoom Lens for Professional 4K Movie Shooting

Offering moviemakers a powerful new creative tool, Sony has developed an advanced Super 35mm / APS-C format power zoom lens that starts at 18mm wide angle and extends to 110mm at the telephoto end (27mm – 165mm equiv. in 35mm format[ii]).

12 Sep 2016

Self-Focused Laser Pulses Generate Optical Structures that Resemble Smoke Rings

Most basic physics textbooks describe laser light in fairly simple terms: a beam travels directly from one point to another and, unless it strikes a mirror or other reflective surface, will continue traveling along an arrow-straight path, gradually expanding in size due to the wave nature of light.

9 Sep 2016