Editor’s Picks

  1. Gamma Deploys Infinera XTM Series For UK Dark Fiber Aggregation Network 4/27/2017

    Infinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and Gamma, a technology-based provider of communication services to the United Kingdom (UK) business market, announced Gamma’s deployment of the Infinera XTM Series for its UK dark fiber aggregation network.

  2. New Publications Detail Photonics Advances By UT Arlington Physics Team 11/11/2014

    A University of Texas at Arlington physics team is using their expertise in the field of optics and photonics to advance new methods in areas such as mapping the neural circuitry of the brain and guiding neurons to potentially repair damage in the body.

  3. Alfalight scores $28M in second round funding 12/13/2000
    Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV, Palo Alto, California), a venture capital firm focused on emerging growth companies in the Internet infrastructure, software and services, communications and healthcare industries, continues its optical networking and communications investment trend
  4. C-Mount Focus-Tunable Lenses Provide Continuous Focusability From 80-200mm 11/15/2012

    Edmund Optics (EO), the premier provider of optical components, introduces new C-Mount Focus-Tunable Lenses. These versatile lenses are ideally suited for a wide variety of imaging applications.

  5. Agilent Technologies And Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Collaborate To Demonstrate Record-Breaking Optical Signaling 1/29/2013

    Agilent Technologies Inc. recently announced it has demonstrated the world's fastest complex-modulation optical interface rates.

  6. Researchers Synthesize Record-Breaking, Atomically Precise Diamond-Shaped Nanoclusters Of Silver 9/9/2016

    A wide international collaboration involving researchers from four countries – China, Australia, Germany and Finland – have managed to synthesize and characterize two previously unknown, record-large silver nanoclusters of 136 and 374 silver atoms.

  7. Nanospheres Cooled With Light To Explore The Limits Of Quantum Physics 3/17/2015

    A team of scientists at UCL led by Peter Barker and Tania Monteiro (UCL Physics and Astronomy) has developed a new technology which could one day create quantum phenomena in objects far larger than any achieved so far.

  8. Amplitude Systemes To Present At Photonics West And BIOS 2010 1/13/2010
    Amplitude Systemes will present its latest products during the Photonics West and Bios conferences, from January 23 to January 29 in San Francisco, U.S.A.
  9. Jefferson Lab Signs Contract Wth SensL For Silicon Photomultiplier Technology 3/28/2008
    SensL, a provider of innovative, low-light solutions that use the company's proprietary silicon detectors, recently announced that it has signed a contract with the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) of Newport News, VA, for the optimization of low-light detectors and the supply of prototypes for possible use in the lab's GlueX experiment
  10. Shedding New Light On Laser Additive Manufacturing 4/10/2018

    Additive manufacturing (AM, also known as 3D printing) allows us to create incredibly complex shapes, which would not be possible using traditional manufacturing techniques. However, objects created using AM have different properties from traditional manufacturing routes, which is sometimes a disadvantage.