BinOptics Corp. says it has received $13.3 million in new investment. The Ithaca, NY-based manufacturer of lasers and monolithically integrated optoelectronic components will use the funding to...
A consortium of researchers in Italy has observed second harmonic generation in a silicon waveguide – the first time this effect has been seen in a silicon waveguide, they say. This is an...
EpiPhotonics has announced development of new low-loss electro-optic (Pb,LA)(ZrTi)O3 (PLZT) waveguides for nanosecond-speed optical switching. The new buried PLZT waveguides exhibit loss figures...
Researchers at OFS Technologies Somerset, NJ, say they have developed a precise and efficient way to construct microresonators by making nanoscale changes to the diameter of standard optical fiber....
The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), part of Singapore’s Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), has big plans to commercialize silicon photonics. To make the plan a...
A new project, partially funded by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-2009-C), will seek to develop a silcon-based optical random access memory (RAM) device...
It isn’t taking long for NeoPhotonics Corp. (NYSE: NPTN) to leverage the assets it recently acquired when it bought Santur Corp. (see “NeoPhotonics agrees to acquire Santur”)....
Able to focus exclusively again on chip development after selling its cabling business to Molex, Luxtera has unveiled a single-chip opto-electronic transceiver that leverages the company’s...
GigOptix, Inc. (OTCQB:GGOX) says its line of Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZM) that use its proprietary Thin Film Polymer on Silicon (TFPS) technology have successfully completed Telcordia GR-468...
Oclaro, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCLR) says it has begun sampling a pair of new high-power pump lasers. The first is a 500-mW uncooled 980-nm pump laser; the second is a 2x600-mW dual-chip pump in a single...
