Events
CLEO
6th - 8th May 2008
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA
Booth number 2514
Featured products - BQM30 laser beam monitor and MPX Modal Explorer
News
Mar 2008 - Andrew Hallam awarded doctorate
Andrew Hallam has successfully completed his PhD thesis and viva voce examination at Aston University in Birmingham. The thesis, entitled 'Mode Control in Multimode Optical Fibre and its Applications' describes techniques for modifying and measuring the mode distribution in multimode fibres for a variety of applications, including compliance with international standards.
The research program was supported through a CASE studentship; Arden Photonics was the industrial sponsor.
Andrew is the design authority for Arden's Modal Explorer product range, and also represents UK industry in the development of international standards relating to optical fibre measurements.
Feb 2008 - Major software release for MPX Modal Explorer
Version 4.1.0 software has been released for the MPX Modal Explorer. New features include
- Encircled Flux template for draft IEC61280-4-1. This template is user-programmable to allow updates as the draft standard evolves
- Encircled Flux template for IEEE802.3aq (LRM 1310nm)
- MPD template for ISO/IEC14763-3. This template is also user-programmable
- A 'Focus Monitor' option, to provide repeatable focussing on the fibre end-view image
- Restructuring of 'End-view and 'Preview' modes to aid operator efficiency
Contact Arden Photonics sales or your local distributor for more details
Jan 2008 - Photonics West 2008
Arden Photonics participated in one of the industry's foremost conferences and trade shows this month. Featured products were the BQM-30 laser beam quality monitor and the MPX Modal Explorer. Both products were demonstrated live.
During the week, we attended Global Advantage's Business Opportunities Breakfast which took place on Wednesday January 23rd with over 250 attendees. Mary Gilbert, HM Deputy Consul General provided the VIP address to close the formal proceedings.
In the picture are Mary Gilbert with Glenn Barrowman of the West Midlands ICT Hub and Josianne Gros-Louis, Vice Consul, UKTI San Francisco
Nov 2007 - ASIA Interprise LEAP at ILOPE in Biejing
Arden Photonics participated in the Asia Interprise Business Meetings which took place on 20th and 21st November 2007 at “ILOPE” in Beijing.
More than 430 meetings took place between European and Chinese companies. 41 European companies travelled to meet 60 Chinese companies: 8 German, 7 Italian, 6 UK, 1 Estonian, 4 Lithuanian, 6 Polish and 9 French companies participated in the event.
Oct 2007 - OFMC 2007
OFMC 2007 is Europe's leading conference on measurements of optical fibres and optoelectronics. OFMC brings together scientists, technologists, metrologists and industry specialists to discuss issues and developments in measurements for applied optical technologies.
Arden Photonics supported the conference by collaborating in two papers, namely
"Mode Control for Emerging Link Performance Standards" presented by A.G. Hallam et al, Aston University.
"Laser beam propagation ratio parameters, traceable to national measurement standards" presented by S R G Hall et al, NPL
Sept 2007 - New Production Engineer joins Arden
Tony Hainsworth joined Arden this month to strengthen our engineering and production operations. He comes to us with many years experience in design, manufacture and test of high power solid state lasers, and he will take responsibility for assembly and test of our fiber optic instruments and components.
Tony has an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University in Metallurgy and Materials, and an MSc from Newcastle Polytechnic in Optoelectronics.
June 2007 - Arden attend Laser 07 in Munich
We attended the Laser show again this year in conjunction with our German distributor OptoPrim GmbH. A number of other manufacturers who work with Optoprim also sent staff including BossaNova Technology and Arroyo Instruments.
Featured products from Arden were BQM30 real-time laser beam quality monitor and BQM10 laser beam profiler.
May 2007 - Arden wins Export Award
Arden Photonics was delighted to be amongst five West Midlands companies from diverse backgrounds and sectors to have won top accolades for their export achievements. They were all honoured at the West Midlands international trade awards ceremony, held on Friday 18 May at Thinktank at Millennium Point, Birmingham, for their success in a wide range of overseas markets. These prestigious annual awards celebrate the achievements of firms that have been helped by UK Trade & Investment's flagship Passport scheme.
June 2006 - Arden finalists in the Lord Stafford Award 2006
We are delighted to have been recognised for our commitment to innovation by being selected to be amongst the finalists of this year's Lord Stafford Awards. The Lord Stafford Awards are designed to stimulate innovative collaboration between businesses and Universities in the West Midlands. Arden was recognised for the collaborative work done with the Aston University Photonics Group which helped towards the development of the ModCon
We are eagerly awaiting the 2006 Lord Stafford Awards dinner which is being held in the Stateroom at Alton Towers in Staffordshire. The overall winner will be announced during the course of the evening. Over 300 regional and national business people will be in attendance, as well as our host, Kay Alexander and key speaker PY Gerbeau.
April 2006 - New Applications Engineer joins Arden Photonics
Dr Hui Yang joined Arden Photonics this month to boost our capability to provide customers with application-specific support particularly in the area of wavefront sensing and beam profiling.
Dr Yang completed his PhD in the Optical Engineering Research Group at the University of Loughborough in 2005. His thesis was on Information Extraction in Holographic PIV. More recently he worked at the University of Sheffield on the development of novel tensor tomography and Fourier polarimetry for 3D photoelasticity.
Feb 2006 - IEC standard on mode profiling published.
IEC standard 61300-3-43 on the measurement of mode power distribution in multimode optical fibres has now been published and is available from the IEC This standard contains a description of the experimental method to characterise the mode-filling in multimode fibres. It features a normative annex which specifies a template for the required Mode Power Distribution (MPD) for the measurement of insertion loss in installed fibre links and in fibre components, such as connectors. The MPD template is also specified in ISO/IEC link testing document 14763-3, which is currently out for final voting.
July 2005 - MPX-2 measures fiber mode profile at 1300 nm
Arden Photonics Ltd today announces the introduction of the MPX-2 for measurement of Mode Power Distribution (MPD),Encircled Flux