What is Photonics?
The term Photonics was coined in 1967 by Pierre Aigrain.....
OEwaves Receives Contract to Develop Optical Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) Receiver for Future Electronic Warfare (EW) Systems
Company to collaborate with ITT to prototype and test multi-function and reduced size, weight, power (SWAP), and cost photonic receiver under a DARPA contract to enhance intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) and electronic countermeasure (ECM) capabilities in EW systems.
Isotech Expands In-House Automation Engineering Capabilities to Better Serve Demand for Application Design
Increasingly manufacturers are challenged with the task of engineering complex automation solutions in order to maintain a competitive advantage in areas like manufacturing processes. The pace of technology often leaves these businesses short on resources, technical know-how, and time to effectively and efficiently meet those challenges. Isotech, Inc., a supplier of linear motion components, is increasing in-house automation engineering capabilities to meet the demand for outsourced automation engineering.
Groudbreaking Reseach by the TRIUMPH Project Consortium Leads to New Approaches to Transparent Networking.
Promising faster, more efficient and cheaper computer networking, transparent networks are the paradigm of the future, and thanks to European researchers, they are on their way already.
Lumerical Donates FDTD Software to Speed Nanophotonic Design in Australia
Lumerical Solutions announces a donation of FDTD Solutions Engine licenses to the National Computational Infrastructure National Facility high performance computing system based at the Australian National University Supercomputer Facility. The donated licenses will benefit research efforts across a wide range of applications, including silicon photonics-based optical interconnects destined for future processor architectures, high efficiency solid-state lighting, and the design of next-generation thin film solar cell technologies.
Global Non-linear Optical Materials Market to Reach $1.0 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
Driven by rise in demand for telecommunication, laser and electro-optic applications, global market for non-linear optical materials is projected to reach $1.0 billion by the year 2015.
Optical Visual Fault Locator for Fiber Optic Networks and Optical Systems
Toronto, Canada - GAO Instruments () is offering this optical visual fault locator for the maintenance of fiber optic networks, optical systems including LAN, FDDI and ATM, telecommunications and CATV networks. It is commonly used in quickly verifying continuity, checking the validity of patch cables and locating faults in the continuity of both single mode (SM) and multimode (MM) optical fibers.
Lumerical-NNIN/C Partnership Accelerates Nanophotonics Research
Lumerical has donated ten FDTD Solutions Engine licenses to the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Computation Project. The joint capabilities of the 224 core HPC system and the donated licenses, freely accessible to NNIN members, promise to speed nanophotonics design efforts across the United States.
