U.H.P. Fischer earneda degree in physics from the Free University of Berlin, Germany in1983. In 1988 he made his PhD in physics of condensed matter. In1988 he joined the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute in ...

It’s fair to say that for most of us, using a fiber optic cable for digital audio or maybe networking will involve the use of an off-the-shelf termination. We snap the cable into the receptacle, and ...

Fiber optic technology is the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, and recent innovations are propelling its capabilities to new heights. In the past few years, breakthroughs in materials, ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2024.230202, discusses an all-optical ultra-long-distance image acquisition and transmission system. With the exponential growth of ...

Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) are cardinal elements in the optical communication networks, which control the amplitude, phase and polarization of a light via external electric signals. Aiming to ...

It’s a rare person who can pick up a cheap laser pointer and not wield it like a lightsaber or a phaser, complete with sound effects. There’s just something about the “pew-pew” factor that makes ...

Launching high power laser light into a pure silica core optical fiber can sometimes damage the input face of the fiber, causing failure in fiber coupling. The coupling failure occurs more commonly ...

Infinite bandwidth is a term often used to describe the capacity of fiber-optic networks. It’s an exciting concept even though it doesn’t exist in reality. Bandwidth allocation has long been used to ...

Commercialization has started for network switches based on co-packaged optics (CPO), which are capable of routing signals at terabits per second speeds, but manufacturing challenges remain regarding ...

Schäfter+Kirchhoff have launched a new fiber coupler series 60SMF. The couplers series 60SMF are high precision fiber couplers optimized for high coupling efficiency, high pointing stability and ...