Volume 2, Issue 10

The single most important factor behind the rise in bandwidth requirements is the growing demand imposed by new bandwidth-consuming applications. A typical corporation or business...

u2t Photonics AG, a Berlin-based vendor of leading edge optoelectronic components, has introduced two differential pin-TIA photoreceivers for SONET OC-768/SDH STM-256 fibre-optic...

Bookham Technology (Oxford, UK) presented a paper at ECOC last month describing a novel method to fabricate ridge-waveguide distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with only a single...

Blue Sky Research's ChromaLASE series of free-space lasers is designed for OEM applications such as biomedical and analytical instrumentation, alignment, and semiconductor metrology...

While funding for optical companies remains difficult to come by, two startups have managed to raise money based on their wafer-level approaches to functional integration. Both...