wiredinUSA April 2013

Fiber optic safety DVD

Electro-optical collaboration

TheLightBrigade,AFL’seducationand training division, has incorporated the content of the ANSI Z 136.2 standard, along with the international IEC 60825-2 optical fiber communications safety standard, to its Fiber Optic Safety DVD. The new ANSI standard provides guidance for the safe use, maintenance, service and installation of fiber optic and free space optical communications systems, which use laser diodes that operate between standard wavelengths of 850–1,650 nm. The standard is published by the Laser Institute of America (LIA). Bonus materials provided on the DVD include a student quiz with matching instructor version, written in Microsoft ® Word format, that allows customization for specific safety needs. BICSI ® recognizes Fiber Optic Safety DVD training for the following BICSI continuing education credits (CECs): one RCDD; one RITP; one Installer 2, one Technician and one Certified Trainer.

Lightwave Logic and EM Photonics are to work together to develop an advanced telecom modulator. The two companies will collaborate on the project, with guidance from Dr Fred Leonberger, senior technology advisor to Lightwave Logic. EM Photonics is a Delaware-based photonic system design, engineering and device company founded by Dr Dennis Prather of the University of Delaware. Lightwave Logic is developing a non-linear optical polymer materials platformfor applications inhigh speed fiber optic data communications and optical computing.

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