What does IO stand for?

of Melbourne, Australia) have gathered information from experts in atomic vapor spectroscopy, fiber amplifiers and integrated optics to explain how slow light schemes, or "light propagation in media and structures with reduced group velocity," can be used in applications such as photonic crystal devices, low-loss optical waveguides and microfabrication techniques.

DST, Santa Clara, CA)--and joint venture partners Optiphase (Van Nuys, CA), Redfern Integrated Optics (RIO, Santa Clara, CA) and the University of Illinois at Chicago--for the "Fiber Sensing System for Civil Infrastructure Health Monitoring" program.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications This UNC Charlotte center provides research in active and passive photonic devices, integrated optics and packaging, fabrication of engineered optical materials, optical metrology and imaging and optical-communication networks.

In their preface to the digest, the symposium chairs note that after 20 years, "fiber-optic metrology is not only still important, but we are seeing a rise in metrology needs for the technologies resulting from fiber optics--components, integrated optics and fiber systems.

Ipitek won for its work in integrated optics, or placing several, optical switches and other devices on the same unit, much in the same way that integrated circuit boards place dozens of transistors on the same chip.

The Vistec EBPG5200 enables users to address a multitude of application fields, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, integrated optics, security, semiconductor research, X-ray optics, MEMS and sensor engineering to name but a few of them.

After introducing the nomenclature and notations, seven chapters discuss integrated optics, including coverage of step-index thin-film waveguides, graded-index thin-film waveguides, propagation loss in thin-film waveguides, three-dimensional waveguides with rectangular boundaries, optical directional couplers and their applications, guided-wave gratings, and arrayed-waveguide gratings.

It also includes an integrated optics package, featuring an autofocus camera and lens module with programmable features and a day/night option.