March 2018
Tina Kidger on Success Through Confidence
For this installment of Senior Member Insights, we talk with Tina E. Kidger. Tina is currently European Events Consultant for Synopsys, and an emeritus member of the board of directors of the European Optical Society. Since 1982, she has also served as managing director of Kidger Optics Ltd. Tina is very active in the optics community and is a leading organizer and participant at international...
Added: 29 March 2018
2018 Applied Industrial Optics (AIO) Chair, Dr. Martin Garbos shares his thoughts on the meeting.
AIO is a great platform to meet people facing the same challenges or who might even have helpful answers for your problems since they have mastered them. Additionally, you can find great job opportunities here. We have had attendees who...
Added: 26 March 2018
Optical Data Center Interconnect: More Capacity, Lower Power and Easier Operations
Back in February 2018, I wrote a pre-conference blog about the highly competitive nature of the Optical Data Center Interconnect (DCI) market and especially the optical DCI small form factor (SFF) appliance category. As the 2018 OFC Conference and...
Added: 25 March 2018
Executive Forum 2018 Recap
The 2018 edition of the OIDA Executive Forum in advance of OFC has wrapped up, and it is hard to determine any one major theme of the program this year. Once again, this was a worthwhile event with perspectives given from a wide variety of industry movers and shakers. However, it seems that we are at an interesting point in the optical industry where requirements are somewhat fragmented and...
Added: 21 March 2018
Breaking the Optical Glass Ceiling – What comes after 400G/600G?
​Successive rounds of optical innovation and investment have delivered higher capacity networks with significantly decreased cost-per-bit transmitted. In the near future, as we approach Shannon’s limit, gains will become more incremental, and the cost-per-bit of added capacity will become more linear. As an industry, will we be able to break through the optical glass ceiling to...
Added: 11 March 2018
International Women’s Day: So Much Already Achieved And Still So Much To Be Done
These are outlandish times in our society. On the one hand, women have never experienced the current level of independence, empowerment, and social equity that we know today. On the other hand, this wave of change comes accompanied by a wave of social conscience stirring, which obliges women and men to confront...
Added: 08 March 2018
