Applications & Markets
Photonics is quietly transforming the world, becoming part of our daily lives in ways that are often unnoticed. As photonics takes on a bigger role, it is opening new possibilities for how we live, communicate, and interact with the world around us. From the moment we wake, photonics is at work, powering the high-speed internet that connects our devices, the advanced sensors that ensure our safety and even the processors and algorithms behind the new AI applications.
At ID Photonics, we are committed to advancing this technology, providing test and measurement solutions that helps researchers and manufacturers across various industries to push the boundaries of what is possible.
Telecommunication
The optical communications industry is swiftly evolving to meet the demands of an ever-growing connected world. This evolution is driven by the demand for many new services and applications such as ubiquitous broadband, cloud computing, and emergence of generative AI. As the world moves towards this hyper-connected environment, customer expectations keep rising, resulting in a substantial increase in data volumes that need to be transmitted and processed.
Significant research is conducted to refine advanced modulation formats, while optical component manufacturers must thoroughly test their products before distribution into coherent networks and AI application-centric data centers.
ID Photonics offers a comprehensive test and measurement portfolio, including OMFT IQ reference transmitters, CORX coherent receivers, CoBrite tunable narrow linewidth lasers and ID OSA Optical Spectrum Analyzers, helping researchers and manufacturers reach their ambitious goals in this ever-evolving landscape.
Space-communication
Space-based communication networks are reshaping global connectivity through the deployment of constellations of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. These constellations form a network spanning the entire globe and aim to provide high-speed internet access to the most remote areas worldwide, narrowing the digital gap and ensuring continuous connectivity across the globe. Advanced optical satellite-to-ground and inter-satellite links are utilized, supported by a range of sophisticated technologies to meet these objectives.
Photonic technologies are a key enabling element for these networks. Laser-based transmission systems enable high-bandwidth data exchange between satellites and ground stations. To achieve high bandwidth, high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), high efficiency and low power consumption at the same time, narrow linewidth lasers are used.
ID Photonics offers researchers and designers a range of CoBrite tunable narrow linewidth lasers and CORX coherent receivers, empowering them to reach their ambitious objectives.
Quantum Key Distribution
In today’s digital society, where data security is critical across industries such as banking, business, healthcare, and government, the emergence of quantum-based supercomputers poses a significant threat to traditional encryption methods.
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) offers a solution by securely sharing keys between parties using quantum properties like superposition and entanglement. This approach makes any attempt at eavesdropping or intercepting data easily detectable, offering a fundamentally higher level of security compared to standard encryption methods. This is enabled by the use of various photonic and integrated photonic technologies.
ID Photonics provides a variety of solutions, such as CoBrite narrow linewidth tunable lasers, ID OSA Optical Spectrum Analyzers, and OMFT IQ reference transmitters, to assist researchers and designers.
Quantum computing
Quantum computing is set to transform industries like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cryptography, with photonic processors leading the way. These processors rely on integrated photonics and require laser sources with specific qualities like spectral purity, coherence, stability and precision.
ID Photonics’ range of CoBrite tunable narrow linewidth lasers and ID OSA Optical Spectrum Analyzers are crucial tools for researchers and designers working on photonic processors. These novel processing devices enable precise photon manipulation, essential for leveraging quantum computing’s potential to solve complex problems rapidly.
COHERENT LiDAR
Coherent LiDAR’s impact will be profound due to its ability to provide high-definition real-time 3D images of the surrounding environment through active sensing with laser beams. The most striking application for this technology will enable autonomous vehicles, but it will also be transformative in other areas such as security and surveillance, remote sensing, atmospheric research and industrial applications.
Coherent LiDAR technology operates by emitting modulated laser beams, capturing the reflected light, and analyzing time of flight to produce detailed distance maps of objects within the scene.
ID Photonics offers a portfolio of CoBrite tunable narrow linewidth lasers, ID OSA Optical Spectrum Analyzers, and OMFT IQ reference transmitters, providing valuable help to LiDAR designers.
Defense applications
Ensuring security, reliability and effectiveness is crucial in defense applications. Advanced research projects incorporating optical technologies focus on diverse applications aiming for secure data transmission like Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG), Terahertz point-to-point communication, sensing applications and many more.
ID Photonics offers researchers a broad portfolio of test instruments catering to the full range of fiber-optic applications that enable novel advanced photonic defense applications.
Products & Solutions
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