Laser Components now offers high-power cables with connectors and copper ferrules. The use of copper as a ferrule material guarantees optimal heat removal
Laser Components has introduced its Fibercheck device for testing the condition of optical fibres by simply coupling a good visible laser light into the fibre to be checked
Arden Photonics has introduced the VFI-1200, an interferometric inspection system for checking the end-face quality and flatness of fibres with diameters of 125-1200µm
FiberTech RoMack, a Leoni Fiber Optics business unit, has introduced its Planar Lightwave Circuits (PLC), which include single mode 1 x N and 2 x N broadband splitters with up to 64 channels
Fiberlogix has introduced a range of passive components designed for high power lasers, including power monitors, polarisers, and isolators. The devices are suitable for wavelengths around 2µm
Laser Components has introduced a range of optical fibre switches designed for various laser measurement and microscopy applications
Laser Components has introduced a range of protective coatings and buffers for optical fibres, which it says extend the lifetimes of the components
JK Lasers (part of the GSI group) has released its new mode converter fibre coupler (MCFC), developed to provide flexibility to users of the company's fibre laser products
NKT Photonics has introduced its DC-200/40-PZ-Yb-03, a single-mode, polarising double-clad ytterbium-doped fibre with a large mode area and the company's Coil Control feature
Laser Components has announced that its fibre optics customers are now able to benefit from anti-reflection coatings on fibres.
Organoid imaged with Andor’s desktop confocal microscope system, the BC43. Credit: Andor
As microscopes become ever more powerful, a growing band of businesses are racing to make the latest technologies more accessible and more affordable, reports Rebecca Pool
Illustration of a three-dimensional crystal with various types of confining centres. (a) Crystal with four confining centres, each trapping waves (yellow) in all three dimensions simultaneously. (b) Crystal with a linear confining centre where waves can propagate in one dimension, analogous to an optical fibre. (c) Crystal with a planar confining centre where waves can propagate in two dimensions, analogous to a 2D electron gas. (Image: Vos et al.)
Newly discovered fundamental rules have been embedded into software to dramatically optimise the design of photonic integrated circuits
