Primary performance data for passive fiber-optic devices is provided by spectral measurement of optical insertion loss (IL) and polarization-dependent loss (PDL). Often used to characterize optical ...

All-optical photonic devices are crucial for many important photonic technologies and applications, ranging from optical communication to quantum information processing. Conventional design of ...

A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a new breakthrough in photonics: the design of the first optical device that follows the emerging ...

Silicon photonics is an emerging and rapidly-expanding design platform that promises to enable higher-bandwidth communication and other applications. One of the best qualities of silicon photonics is ...

Xingjie Ni, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, and his team recently developed a new device that can accelerate and dramatically reduce the energy cost of AI computation, ...

This high-side monitor provides a compact solution for the common and often challenging problem of interfacing an optical power monitoring device, such as a logarithmic amplifier, to the cathode-side ...

NEC and NTT have conducted a first-of-its-kind transoceanic-class 7,280km transmission experiment using coupled multicore fibre. The two Japanese firms expect the work they have been carrying out will ...