Next week we are at Photon16: The University of Leeds
Next week Elliot Scientific will be exhibiting at Photon16, the largest optics and photonics conference in the UK and the eighth in the series of these biennial events.
This year Photon16 will be held at the University of Leeds, and includes a Women in Optics workshop, an Industry and Technology Programme (ITP) and dozens of speakers at various conferences taking place at the event.
Elliot Scientific is located on Table 34 from September 6th and 7th throughout the exhibition days of the conference.
New electronic Polarisation Controller/Scrambler from OZ Optics
OZ Optics now offers a high speed electrically operated Polarisation Controller (EPC) that provides continuous polarisation control with negligible insertion and return losses in a compact, easy to operate package. Four birefringence transducers, each controlled by an analogue input signal, modify the polarisation in orthogonal directions. The device can be operated from 1260 to over 1650 nm (custom wavelengths available) with the response speed of each transducer surpassing 30 kHz.
Applications include polarisation controllers for optical networks, Polarisation Dependent Loss (PDL) control, Polarisation Mode Dispersion (PMD) compensation modules, and polarisation scramblers for polarisation parameter characterisation systems. The redundant transducer design allows continuous control of polarisation without having to ‘reset’ voltages.
High Speed Polarisation Controllers are offered as base modules requiring external electrical signals to operate, OEM modules with driver electronics and control interface, or stand-alone benchtop test instruments. For more information, please contact us.
Next week: Photon 14 at Imperial College
Next week Elliot Scientific will be exhibiting at Photon 14, the largest optics and photonics conference in the UK and the seventh in the series of these biennial events.
This year Photon14 will be held at Imperial College London, and includes Optics and Photonics 2014 and QEP-21 conferences.
Photo courtesy of Amanda Slater
Topics covered at the conference will include:
- Active and adaptive optics
- Advances in imaging and displays
- Advances in lasers
- Advances in THz technology
- Biophotonics
- Computational photonics
- Fibre optic sensors
- Fibre optics and waveguides
- Lighting design
- Manufacturing of optics
- Metamaterials
- Nanophotonics and plasmonics
- Nonlinear photonics
- Optical and quantum metrology
- Optical diagnostic in engineering
- Optical environmental sensing
- Optical vortices, polarization, coherence and non-Gaussian beams
- Photonic energy harvesting
- Photonic systems
- Quantum coherent control
- Quantum dots, nanocrystals, and low dimensional materials
- Quantum information
- Quantum optics
- Silicon and carbon photonics
- Structured optical materials and biomimetics
- Trapping and manipulation
- Ultrafast and attosecond optics
Elliot Scientific can be found on Stand 10 from September 1st to 4th.
Photon 14: 1st – 4th September, Imperial College, London
Polarization Dependent Loss is Dominant Performance-limiting Factor
Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL) is the dominant performance-limiting factor of high speed optical networks with per-channel bit rates of 10 Gb/s or more, so Elliot Scientific offers solutions for simulation and reduction of PDL in fibre optic networks, and solutions for PMD simulation, from globally renowned calibration artefact supplier Taliescent.
PDL is present to a varied extent in nearly every fibre optic component. In itself, PDL can be detrimental to the performance of both fibre optic telecommunications and test & measurement systems, but it can also interact with Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) and lead to increased uncertainty in bit error rates.
For more information on the Taliescent product range, please contact us.
PDL artefacts from Elliot Scientific help cut bit error rates
Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL) is present to a varied extent in nearly every fibre optic component. In itself, PDL can be detrimental to the performance of both fibre optic telecommunications and test & measurement systems, but it can also interact with Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) and lead to increased uncertainty in bit error rates.
PDL is the dominant performance-limiting factor of high speed optical networks with per-channel bit rates of 10 Gb/s or more, so Elliot Scientific offers solutions for simulation and reduction of PDL in fibre optic networks, and solutions for PMD simulation, from globally renowned calibration artefact supplier Taliescent.
For more information on the Taliescent product range, please contact us.
Manufacturing bespoke optical fibre is Nufern’s speciality…
Nufern makes speciality optical fibre, pigtails and other solutions for telecom component, aerospace, fibre laser and integrated circuit manufacturers. In the video from SPIE below, NuFern President Martin Seifert takes you on a tour of the company’s manufacturing facility.
Elliot Scientific can supply rare earth doped fibres for lasers and amplifiers, gyroscope fibres and other polarization maintaining fibres, extreme duty and radiation hard fibres for aerospace, as well as photosensitive and other single-mode fibres.
To find out more, please contact us.
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