With Annual Growth of 31%, Biophotonics Market Zooms to $133 Billion by 2016!
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The business of looking at biological functions at the cellular level or even smaller is big. Really big! Known as Biophotonics -- a marriage of photon-based experimental manipulation and advanced optical imaging -- the market is growing at approximately 31% annually with worldwide...

Laser Sales to Reach $7.1 Billion in 2008 Despite Slowing in Second Half.
NASHUA, N.H., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The global laser market will end 2008 at an estimated $7.1 billion in sales, a growth of 3.7% over 2007, despite slowing sales in the second half of 2008. This figure includes both diode and non-diode lasers, for use in applications as varied...

Opnext Chooses IMM Photonics as Distributor for Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-4 August 2008-Opnext Chooses IMM Photonics as Distributor for Germany, Austria, Switzerland(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Opnext announced that IMM Photonics has been selected as an authorized distributor of Opnext optical devices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. IMM Photonics will distribute Opnext...

Photonics Festival Set for Taipei World Trade Center.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-13 May 2008-Photonics Festival Set for Taipei World Trade Center(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com With more than 300 international exhibitors signed up to attend, this year's Photonics Festival from June 11 through June 13 at Taipei World Trade Center will showcase again Taiwan's position in many...

Renewable energies in our local region.
The Capital Region of NY is ideal for a collaborative venture for clean energy investments. Just this past June, a consortium of industrial, academic and not-for-profit energy organizations by the name of New Energy New York (NENY) committed to advancing New York's clean energy industry, held its first Fuel...

Intensity position modulation for free-space laser communication system.
Abstract: In this study a novel analog modulation-demodulation technique for free-space laser communication system called Intensity Position Modulation(IPM) is carried out. According to [TEM.sub.00] mode of a laser beam and by linear fitting on the Gaussian function as an approximation, the variation of linear part on the reverse biased...

The mod couple: wedding silicon and germanium for speed and light.
The silicon superchip. Its intricate web of microscopic circuits handles electrons and photons with equal ease. Its optical components amplify light, detect and channel microwave signals or laser radiation, and convert light to electricity or electricity to light. Its electronic transistors switch on and off rapidly enough...

PennWell Launches Photovoltaics World Magazine, Exhibitions.
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it will launch Photovoltaics World magazine to address the rapidly growing global photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing industry. The first issue of the bimonthly magazine will be published in March 2009. PennWell...

Quantum Hadamard gate implementation using planar lightwave circuit and photonic crystal structures.
INTRODUCTION Quantum gates are important part of quantum communication and computation. Many researchers work on theories of quantum computation, such as entanglement, quantum decoherernce, quantum cryptography and quantum error correction. Now Quantum computation and communication move closer to being a reality (1), (2, (3). For transition from...

Impact of Four Wave Mixing (FWM) in Routing and Wavelength Assignment.
INTRODUCTION Most of the Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problems have been investigated under the assumption that the optical medium is an ideal one which can carry signals without any bit error. Under this circumstance, the effects of transmission impairments on the signal quality of a connection...