Research News - Electro Optics

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Photonis USA awarded manufacturing patent

1 June 2010
Electro-optic manufacturer Photonis USA has been awarded a patent from the US Patent Office for an etching manufacturing process used to create glass microwell plates

Pyroelectric detector developed for terahertz tomography

15 April 2010
Spectrum Detector has been selected to develop a unique eight-element pyroelectric detector array and accompanying electronics for use in a terahertz tomography joint project between three UK universities

CMOS-compatible laser source demonstrated

14 April 2010
Leti has demonstrated a fully CMOS-compatible laser source coupled to a silicon waveguide, a major milestone toward the Wadimos project's goal of fabricating silicon photonics circuits in CMOS foundries.

Vytran demonstrates 100W from coherently combined fibre lasers

19 February 2010
Vytran has coherently combined two, three, and four fibre lasers to produce more than 100W of single transverse mode output at around one micron from an all-fibre, all-passive configuration

Fraunhofer IPMS achieves HYPOLED milestone

4 February 2010
Fraunhofer IPMS has achieved an important milestone within the European project HYPOLED with its digital VGA full-colour OLED microdisplay