January 2013 – Since the 1970′s, the Canare Company has dominated the Japanese professional and live venue market with over 80% market saturation for cabling. Their products for both copper and optical cables and associated connectors & accessories (tooling, repair, etc) have been the staples of the industry. The group has now opened a direct [...]
September 24, 2012, IEEE Photonics Conference, Burlingame, CA—A. V. Krishnamoorthy from Oracle defined the need to move to optical interconnects in high-end systems. The drivers of area and energy efficiencies will force changes in computer systems in the near future. The trends and projections for compute systems calls for a continuation of the efforts that [...]
February 2012, PMC recently introduced several new products for the Fiber to the Home segment based on PON (Passive Optical Network) controllers. First introduced in 2006, they have now surpassed the 20M install ONU (Optical Network Unit). The new chips are for updating the bandwidth for the connections. PON is currently a 1G environment. EPON [...]
November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hakaru Mizoguchi from Gigaphoton talked about efforts to produce a manufacturing-grade EUV source. This photon source will be needed for the next-generation processes below 20 nm. Some of the shortcomings for EUV sources are low power and short lifetimes. To date, the industry has promised production-quality sources [...]
November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hughes Metras from LETI described research results for nanotechnology optical communications. The photonics on silicon and 3-D integration in CMOS will help to address the power issues. Leti is a research organization in Grenoble, France that is working on some of the main challenges facing industry and [...]
October 27, 2011, International Solar Energy Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Victor Moroz from Synopsys discussed the design, modeling, and optimization of silicon solar cells and modules. Optimization must be across all levels of the system, from the silicon, to the cells, and to the modules through virtual prototypes. The challenges in improving PV efficiency are [...]
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—Yashiro Koike, professor at Keio University in Japan espoused on the possibilities for overwhelmingly realistic face-to-face communications based on polymer technologies. The need for greater bandwidth requires ongoing research into polymers. Currently, computer users interact with their machines through displays and keyboards. The technology is available to [...]
July 16, 2010, Semicon West, San Francisco. You may be most familiar with Olympus cameras, but Olympus is also a world leader in research and clinical microscopes. The company also created the first camera that lets doctors look inside the human body, and continues to introduce life-altering imaging technologies for healthcare professionals. Olympus combines its [...]
At Infocomm, they displayed applications for both TV and display panel like flat screens in the industrial marketplace. Multi-Touch, Ltd of Finland is a maker of “dumb” touch screen displays with embedded speakers. The displays are stackable into a display array These devices are connected to a PC which creates all of the graphics and [...]
