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Blue Laser Diode Bringing the World One Step Closer to a Vision of Tiny Projectors

An optimized TO38 package makes the blue laser diode from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors the smallest in its class, bringing the world one step closer to a vision of tiny projectors that can be integrated into mobile devices such as cell phones and digital cameras.

26 Jan 2009

JDSU Introduces New Ultraviolet Filter

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU and TSX: JDU) today announced at the SPIE Photonics West availability of a new ultraviolet (UV) filter, an optical component critical to instrument makers and used for applications such as environmental monitoring, genetic research, biomedical instrumentation, and medical/aesthetic laser instrumentation.

26 Jan 2009

Innolume to Present Technical Paper on Revolutionary Comb-Laser at Photonics West

Innolume, the leading provider of Quantum Dot (QD) laser diodes and modules covering the 1064nm to 1320nm optical spectrum, today announced that it will be presenting a technical paper on its revolutionary comb-laser at Photonics West in San Jose, California January 27th (Paper 7230-21, Session 5: Integration and Devices for Comms, 10:30 AM).

22 Jan 2009

Significant Breakthrough in the Ultra-Miniaturization of Lasers

The principle behind whispering galleries - where words spoken softly beneath a domed ceiling or in a vault can be clearly heard on the opposite side of the chamber - has been used to achieve what could prove to be a significant breakthrough in the miniaturization of lasers. Ultrasmall lasers, i.e., nanoscale, promise a wide variety of intriguing applications, including superfast communications and data handling (photonics), and optical microchips for instant and detailed chemical analyses.

22 Jan 2009

Device will have Many Important Applications to Quantum Technologies

A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly bizarre quantum world. This so called "entanglement filter" passes the pair of photons only if they inhabit the same quantum state, without the user (or anything else) ever knowing what that state is.

22 Jan 2009

Tiny Disk-Shaped Lasers Could One Day Beam Information Through Optical Computers

Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical results, reported in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, explain how adding a small notch to the disk edge provides a single outlet for laser light to stream out.

22 Jan 2009

Spectrometer Modules MCS FLEX Supplement Successful Spectral Sensor Line from Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss has added the MCS FLEX modules to its line of spectral sensors. The Multi Channel Spectrometer modules will be presented for the first time at the Photonics West trade show in San Jose, California, from January 27 to 29, 2009.

22 Jan 2009

Infinera to Exhibit at SCTE's First-Ever Canadian Summit

Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) will exhibit at SCTE's first-ever Canadian Summit, in Toronto February 3-4 at the Toronto Congress Centre. Infinera has pioneered Digital Optical Networking with the Infinera DTN, a Digital ROADM based on large-scale photonic integration.

21 Jan 2009

New Optical Processors Bring Advanced Filtering and Switching Capabilities to DWDM and Other Optics Applications

Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) today introduced WaveShaper, a family of programmable optical processors, at the Fiber Optics Expo in Tokyo. These dynamically reconfigurable optical processors can produce highly flexible wavelength switching and filtering that is critical in DWDM system and component testing, optical pulse shaping and control, and general optics research and development.

21 Jan 2009

Company Will Feature Latest Suite of Metal Halide Fiber-Optic Illuminators for Medical, Industrial Applications

Welch Allyn Lighting Products, a premier manufacturer of high-performance lighting and technology, introduces the "LB24" suite of Solarc metal halide fiber-optic illuminators for medical and industrial applications. LB24 products are compact, efficient, long-life illumination sources that produce high-quality, daylight-appearing light for delivery via small-diameter fiber bundles.

20 Jan 2009