Optoelectronics/Photonics

Viewpoints Archive


	2006
Dec/Jan -		2006: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2007
November -		Component Wars and Sony's Blu-ray–Based PS3
October -		White OLED Lighting Closer to Reality
September -		Breakthrough Hybrid Silicon Laser Chip from Intel and UCSB Researchers
August -		Updates on Commercialization of LED Lighting: General Illumination
July -		LED-Backlit LCDs to Enter the Mainstream
June -		Next-Generation DVDs to Enter the Market New Technology Area: Connected Homes
May -		New QD Application in Flat-Panel Displays
April -		Update on Regional Fiber-to-the-Home Deployment
March -		Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers near 1550nm
February -		Quantum Entanglement on a Chip Recent Developments: Quantum-Dot Thin-Film Solar Cells

	2005	Download all 2005 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2005: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2006
November -		White LEDs for Lighting Close to Commercial Reality
October -		Slowing Light for Potential All-Optical Memory Application
September -		Recent Developments: Toshiba and Epson Introduce Pocket-Size LED-Front Projectors • UCB Researchers Develop Optoelectronic Tweezers
August -		Comlase Pioneers New Manufacturing Process for Laser Diodes
July -		Polymer Light Emitting Diodes
June -		A Next-Generation Technology: Optical Data Processing—Part 2
May -		A Next-Generation Technology: Optical Data Processing
April -		Recent Developments: Intel Develops a Continuous Wave Silicon Laser Market Development: Optoelectronics/Photonics-Components Market Looks Set for Healthy Growth
March -		Optoelectronics/Photonics: Implications of Change
February -		Recent Developments: Photonic Crystals: Making Raman Practical? • Print and Cut • New Laser-Diode Bar Record Commercial Development Parameters: Shifting Business Models

	2004	Download all 2004 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2004: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2005
November -		The Technical and Market Status of Gallium-Nitride Short-Wavelength Laser Diodes
October -		Coarse Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
September -		Commercial Debut of OLEDs in Display Applications
August -		Recent Developments: INO Commercializes Imaging Technology • New Jersey's Initiative in Homeland Security Will Draw on Optoelectronics Technologies • CMU-QDC Collaboration Enhances Performance of Quantum Dots • Americo-French Partnership Will Boost Commercial Development of Photonic Start-Ups
July -		Commercial Development of Biomedical Optics Technology
June -		Optoelectronics in China
May -		Solid-State Lighting
April -		Recent Developments: LED Roundup • Image Sensors in Intelligent Road Studs • Laser-Diode Demand and the Nichia-Sony Blue Laser Deal
March -		Recent Developments: New Optical-Memory Technique • Quantum-Dot Laser Developments
February -		Intel, JDSU, and LCoS Video Projectors

	2003	Download all 2003 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2003: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2004
November -		Recent Developments: Light-Emitting Silicon to Commercialize in 2004 Applications: VCSEL-Based Optical DSP Announcement: Next Generation Technologies
October -		Scanning Laser Camera
September -		Long-Wavelength VCSELs
August -		Recent Developments: IBM Produces 10-Gbit/s Silicon Photodetector • SOA Wavelength Converter Sees Monolithic Integration
July -		Recent Developments: Progress in 1550-nm LEDs • Alcatel, Corning and the Components Business • Adoption of Digital SLR Cameras
June -		Fiber Lasers in Industrial Applications
May -		Developments in Optoelectronic Packaging
April -		Recent Developments: OMM to Shut Down • Developments in Light-Emitting Silicon • New Detector Concept from Phiar
March -		Recent Developments: Motorola Ends GaAs-on-Silicon Operations • Timeslot Optical Time-Division Demultiplexer
February -		Image Sensors

	2002	Download Aug.–Dec. 2002 Viewpoints (PDF)
Dec/Jan -		2002: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2003
November -		Telecom Optoelectronics Market Forecasts
October -		Recent Developments: Optoelectronics Opportunities in Health Care • Bookham: A Major Player • Blue LED Disputes
September -		Recent Developments: New Deposition Technique for Planar Waveguide Fabrication • DVD Laser Developments
August -		Next-Generation DWDM Components
July -		DWDM Market Update Commercial Development Parameters: Component Vendors
June -		Variable Optical Attenuators Meet Photonic Switches Explorer Announcement
May -		Rise of Asian Component Makers
April -		Recent Developments: Corning's Review • Developments in Automated Photonics Packaging • Ulm Photonics and Schott Optovance
March -		Recent Developments: Intel Closes In • 3GIO
February -		Developments in Optical Modulators

	2001
Dec/Jan -		2001: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2002
November -		Optical Polymers Revisited Recent Developments: Moves in Photonics Outsourcing • Qwest and Free-Space Optics
October -		Tunable Lasers
*Before October 2001, the Optoelectronics/Photonics* technology area was Optoelectronic Systems and Circuits.**
September -		1.3-Micron VCSEL Update Recent Developments: Company News
August -		DWDM Technology
July -		DWDM Market Developments
June -		Optical Networking Convergence Recent Developments: Stratos Lightwave • TI and Small Switches
May -		The Maturing of Optoelectronics Manufacture
April -		InP Electronics for Optical Communications Recent Developments: Optical Polymers
March -		Taiwan's Future Role in Optoelectronics
February -		OEICs: Finally Emerging

	2000
Dec/Jan -		2000: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2001
November -		Changes to Optical Storage Pickups Recent Developments: 10-Gigabit Ethernet Standards
October -		Micromachining as an Enabling Technology Recent Developments: Infineon in License Agreement with Molex
September -		Developments in 1.3-Micron VCSELs
August -		VLSI Acquisitions Point to New Optical Transport Phase • Europe Begins Fundamental GaN Research
July -		MEMS Optical Switches: The Accent on Reliability Recent Developments: Standardization in Broadband Detectors
June -		Unraveling HB-LED Industry Developments
May -		Developments in Gigabit Ethernet
April -		DWDM Expansion in Metro Networks Recent Developments: The Importance of Micromachining Technology to OSC
March -		Has the Time Finally Come for True Optical Switching?
February -		Recent Developments: Industry Guru Kilby Heads for Bookham • BT and Corning Have a $66 Million Agreement • Lucent Spends $30 Million on Expansion • Corning • Photornics Team will Develop Lithographic Photoblanks • JDS Uniphase and E-TEK Dynamics Agree to $15 Billion Merger

	1999
Dec/Jan -		1999: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 2000
October -		Recent Developments: Wireless DWDM Targets Metro Networks • Enhanced Erbium-Doped Fibers Could Lead Fiber to the Home • Laboratories Seek Solutions to Problems of Optical Computing • Researchers Make Advances in Fiber-Test Instrument
September -		Recent Developments: Microelectronic Packaging May Skip Ten Years • Laser Diode Groove Increases Brightness • Multilayers Stacks Improve Displays
August -		Explorer Technology Charts
*Before August 1999, the Explorer service was called TechMonitoring, and Viewpoints* were TechLinks.**
June -		Recent Developments: Optics and Fibers Work Together • Spectral Inversion Moves Out of the Lab • Photonics Crystals Grow Themselves • Microscope Analyzes Light As It Travels • Virtual Optical Fibers Create Dense Switch
May -		Next-Generation Optical Data Networks
April -		Highlights from OFC/IOOC 99
March -		MOEMS: R&D in Europe
February -		Monolithic OADMs Recent Developments: Blue-Laser-Diode Update

	1998
Dec/Jan -		1998: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1999
November -		Recent Progress in Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers
October -		WDM in Metropolitan Markets
September -		Progress in Smart Pixels
August -		Update on Parallel Optical Links
July -		Recent Activity at Lucent Technologies
June -		Highlights from CLEO
May -		Recent Optoelectronic Start-Up Companies
April -		Recent Developments: New Attempts at Opto-Silicon Integration • New Materials for Blue Light Generation • Resonant-Cavity LEDs • Microelectromechanical Tuning for VCSELs
March -		Notes from LEOS, Part II
February -		New Optoelectronics Program from NIST Notes from LEOS

	1997
Dec/Jan -		1997: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1998
November -		Progress in Light-Emitting Diodes Recent Developments: New Blue Laser Record from Nichia
October -		Developments in Optoelectronics Have Broad Impact
September -		Optoelectronics Activity at NTT Recent Developments: Electrically Pumped Blue GaN Laser Diode from Cree • Infrared Emission from Silicon
August -		The Future of Fiber Bandwidth
July -		Lightwave Microsystems
June -		Recent Developments: Progress in Packaging • Silicon Waferboard Advances • High-Speed Electroabsorption Modulator • Progress for Photonic Crystals • Glimmers of Hope for Holographic Storage
May -		All-Optical Networks
April -		Notes from Photonics West
March -		Lightwave Microsystems Announces WDM Products • MCI Tests WDM System at 40 Gbits/s • Researchers Propose a New Patterning Method for Organic Optical Circuits • Researchers Propose GaN on Silicon for Blue Lasers • Toshiba Announces Blue Laser • Laser Diode Market Heads for $1.2 Billion Mark • DARPA Launches a Program for Mixed Analog, Digital, and MEMS Devices
February -		Parallel Links Advance • Parallel Links in Japan • Blue Light from Second Harmonic Generation and Upconversion • Improved Stability for Polymer Waveguides • High-Power Laser Diodes • Desktop Sintering with High-Power Laser Diodes

	1996
Dec/Jan -		1996: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1997
November -		Electroluminescent Thin Films
October -		Electroabsorption Modulators
September -		LiNbO3 Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits • WDM Optical Testbed: into the Field
August -		Holographic Storage Systems
July -		Optical Computing
June -		Wavelength Division Multiplexing • Bergh Presents OIDA Market Figures
May -		Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
April -		Plastic Optical Fiber
March -		Progress in High-Speed Optical Interconnects
February -		Report from Photonics West
Dec/Jan -		1995: The Year in Review Look for These Developments in 1996