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Silicon photonics company Kotura to be acquired by Mellanox
05/17/2013
Sunnyvale, CA and Yokneam, Israel--Optical interconnect solutions company Mellanox announced its intent to acquire privately held Kotura, a developer of silicon photonics optical interconnect technology. |
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Avago to acquire InP component maker CyOptics for $400M
05/15/2013
San Jose, CA, Singapore, and Lehigh Valley, PA--Avago announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire CyOptics, manufacturer of indium phosphide (InP) component technologies for communications markets. |
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HELIOS program develops complete supply chain for integrating photonics with CMOS
05/14/2013
Grenoble, France--The just-completed HELIOS program, which consisted of 20 European institutions and commercial outfits cooperating to create a supply chain in Europe for silicon (Si) photonics on CMOS, has indeed produced the ...
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NIST uses laser frequency combs to wirelessly transport ultraprecise time signals
05/06/2013
Boulder, CO--NIST researchers have transferred ultraprecise time signals through open air by bouncing eye-safe laser pulses off a mirror on a hillside. |
Photonics21 releases roadmap to photonics research and innovation priorities
05/03/2013
Brussels, Belgium--At the Photonics21 Annual Meeting the group presented the Photonics Multiannual Strategic Roadmap Towards 2020 – Photonics Driving Economic Growth in Europe to Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Co...
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MOSIS teams with imec, Tyndall, and ePIXfab on silicon photonics
05/03/2013
Leuven, Belgium--IC fabricator MOSIS has teamed with ePIXfab to enable collaboration with imec and the Tyndall National Institute on producing silicon photonics. |
NONLINEAR OPTICS: NLO waveguide structures advance quantum communications
05/01/2013
Periodically poled nonlinear optic (NLO) crystal waveguides overcome obstacles inherent in bulk NLO devices, generating useful quantum states that support leading-edge quantum-communication technology. |
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NOVEL USES OF OPTICAL FIBER: PRISM makes hollow-core fibers single-moded
05/01/2013
Hollow-core fibers designed via the "perturbed resonance for improved single modedness" (PRISM) approach rapidly attenuate higher-order modes while allowing the fundamental mode to propagate at low loss. |
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05/01/2013
Internationally, many efforts are underway to support innovation and growth in photonics-which in turn promises to help society in so many fundamental ways. |
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HIGH-DATA-RATE COMMUNICATIONS: Broadband mode-division multiplexing demoed in hollow-core fiber
04/30/2013
Developers of hollow-core fibers announced two important firsts in a March 21, 2013 postdeadline paper at this year’s Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOE...
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Fiber amplifier for telecommunications is based on PbS/CdS QDs
04/26/2013
Lead sulfide/cadmium sulfide (PbS/CdS) quantum dots (QDs) that absorb 980 nm pump light and emit in the 1400–1600 nm region are at the heart of an optical fiber amplifier developed by researchers at Shanghai University and the ...
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QEOS introduces 'world's fastest LED' for short-range optical communications
04/11/2013
Cupertino, CA--Quantum Electro Opto Systems (QEOS) has unveiled its first commercially available optical-communications products based on its high-speed "tilted charge dynamics” technology. |
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