Corning, NY--Pretium EDGE Solutions featuring ClearCurve optical fiber solutions from Corning received the Datacentre Facility Product of the Year at the Datacentre Solutions Awards 2013.

The 2013 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards program honors the most timely, groundbreaking products in the field of photonics and laser science.

The recent, highly successful LASER World of Photonics tradeshow in Munich makes very clear the international nature of photonics products and applications, and the success of related businesses.

West Lafayette, IN--Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated a method for "temporal cloaking" of optical communications.

The MiniMOT-Rb small magneto-optical trap can capture rubidium atoms and cool them to ~300K.

Singapore--A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics developed a 50 Gbps optical modulator that enables 50% faster download speed than the latest Ethernet standard of 25 Gbps per channel.

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in optical-fiber gain media continues to be one of the major obstacles to laser-power scaling in fiber-based, narrow-linewidth optical amplifiers.

Eindhoven University of Technology and Ghent University have developed the first bias-free and optically controlled 1 × 4 switch.

FBPI fiber features high solarization resistance and transmission across a range from 200 to 2100 nm.

Boston, MA--The distributed fiber-optic sensor market is forecast to be $586 million in 2013 and projected to be $1.1 billion in 2016 with 70% associated with the oil and gas segments.

Clemson, SC--Clemson University’s Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET) recently unveiled the Nufern student office suite in the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory (AMRL).

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.