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AFCS Forum to Host Workshop on Optical Switching Technology at SUPERCOMM 2009

The Advanced Fiber Connectivity and Switching Forum (AFCS Forum) announced today that it will host a workshop at the SUPERCOMM 2009 Conference & Exposition, held October 21-23 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill.

19 Oct 2009

Leading Foundries Order $5.5 Million of Stand Alone Optical CD Bookings from Nova

Deliveries Expected to Take Place During the Fourth Quarter of 2009 Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (NASDAQ: NVMI) provider of leading edge stand-alone metrology and the market leader of integrated metrology solutions...

13 Oct 2009

New Transceiver IC for Rapid Development of Light Peak Optical Interconnect Technology

Ensphere Solutions, an emerging leader in advanced communications semiconductor ICs, today announced the availability of a new transceiver IC for the rapidly-developing Light Peak program. Ensphere Solutions’ n...

9 Oct 2009

Researchers Discover New Way of Storing and "Echoing" Pulses of Light

A new way of storing and 'echoing' pulses of light has been discovered by a team from The Australian National University, allowing bursts of laser to work as a flexible optical memory and potentially assist in extending the range of quantum information systems.

9 Sep 2009

OneChip Photonics Delivers New Family of High-Performance, Low-Cost Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based EPON Transceivers

At The 11th China International OPTO ELECTRONIC Expo (CIOE 2009), OneChip Photonics today announced its new family of high-performance, low-cost Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)-based Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) transceivers.

6 Sep 2009

Awards Reinforce Blazar's Ability to Enable Direct Fiber-to-the-Chip Connectivity for the HPC Market

Luxtera, the worldwide leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics, today announced that as a winner of the 2008 Prism Award, it will participate in the Prism Innovations Product Lab at this year's SPIE Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego, California.

29 Jul 2009

Corning Introduces New Optical Fiber Data Center Solution

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced worldwide a new optical fiber data center solution that addresses the critical issues facing today's chief information officers (CIOs) and also will meet the demands of tomorrow's data centers.

18 Jun 2009

Device Could be Used for Optical Communication, Force Detection, and More

Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a nanoscale device that can be used for force detection, optical communication, and more. The device exploits the mechanical properties of light to create an optomechanical cavity in which interactions between light and motion are greatly strengthened and enhanced.

4 Jun 2009

CIG Implements Discrete Optics With Mindspeed's Burst-Mode Laser Driver to Cost Reduce Optical Network Terminals

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that Mindspeed's M02090 laser driver with integrated limiting amplifier and M02015 high sensitivity transimpedance amplifier (TIA) have enabled Cambridge Industries Group (CIG) to implement a bi-directional optical sub-assembly (BOSA) on-board design in dual closed loop configuration, significantly reducing the cost of optical network terminals (ONTs) for fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) applications.

7 May 2009

JDSU Introduces 450mW 5100 Series Pump Laser

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today announced availability of the 450mW 5100 Series pump laser, the highest 980nm power available to the undersea optical networking industry today. The 5100 Series will power undersea optical amplifiers that are needed to transmit fiber optic signals along cables that span thousands of kilometers along the ocean floor, acting as critical trans-continental links for broadband communications.

4 May 2009