Through a grant from the Optical Society of America Foundation, Ruby Raheem of the University of Edinburgh recently traveled to Ghana, Dubai, and India to give optics demonstrations...
The compact VCSEL comb generator delivers 1 mW power on the order of several gigahertz for time-based calibration of electro-optic instrumentation, sensors, detectors, and streak...
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) appear in everything from display technologies such as flat-panel computer displays to light sources like traffic lights and flashlights.
While the role of nanotechnology in many recent photonics advances may be intuitively obvious, a recently released report from the EU offers an unusually comprehensive look at...
Mobius Photonics (Santa Clara, CA) has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) regarding U.S. patent 5,745,284.
Princeton Lightwave (PLI; Cranbury, NJ), manufacturer of optical semiconductor components and subsystems, was awarded a two-year, $3.5 million contract for the development of ...
Sixty years after Archie Gooch and Leslie Housego collaborated to form a company that would focus on precision optics and crystalline materials, Gooch & Housego (Ilminster, England...
Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) transceiver developer Enablence Technologies (Ottawa, ON, Canada) will acquire all the outstanding shares of ANDevices (Fremont, CA), a supplier of planar...
After several years of intensive development activity, Thales Laser (Orsay, France) delivered the ChemCam Laser Flight Model to the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES; Paris...
Advances in high-performance sensor materials and optoelectronics have enabled optical sensors for use in a diverse array of markets including life sciences, environmental, food...
Most optical switches operate by shutting light on or off, or by directing light between two different ports of the device through inducing a refractive-index change or phase ...
Stimulated emission-depletion microscopy represents one of the most straightforward among techniques to image at a resolution beyond the diffraction limit.
In recent years the bulk of the scientific sessions at the SPIE Biomedical Optics (BiOS) conference have focused on optical imaging for diagnostic and biological applications....
Optical communications systems find their limits as signals degrade along the network, but a new approach may provide a way to simply and cheaply maintain signal fidelity.
Despite record attendance of more than 17,500 at SPIE’s Photonics West in San Jose, CA, recession fears in the U.S. cast a shadow on an otherwise bright outlook for the solid,...
Originally developed for particle-physics experiments, the hybrid photodetector offers low-light detection with better pulse height resolution than a PMT, fast time response and...