Finisar announced its participation at Photonics West with several new innovations highlighting the growth in optics technology in smartphones and automotive sensing. During the exhibition, Finisar will demonstrate VCSEL arrays (Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers) used in depth-sensing applications, such as 3D facial recognition in consumer mobile devices. The company will also display its line of diffractive optical elements, demonstrate WaveSource™ technology, and introduce a new high-speed photodetector. See these market-leading products and demonstrations in Finisar's booth #4045 at the San Francisco Moscone Center, February 5-7. Finisar’s demonstrations at Photonics West 2019 will include the following: A 3D camera, utilizing VCSEL technology as the IR source, to demonstrate 3D depth sensing. Designed by Finisar partner Gener8, the 3D camera provides an accurate, high resolution and real-time 3D ‘depth map’ of the scene, allowing a consumer device or a car to see in 3D, recognize movements or ‘gestures’ and map objects in detail. The set-up will allow attendees to interact with the live camera; An active demonstration of diffractive optical elements (DOEs) that shape, steer and control the light output from a laser (example VCSEL) in a 3D sensor. Finisar will show various functions using a beam profiler; Finisar’s WaveSource™ laser unit demonstrating high-speed programmable wavelength tuning with support of a WaveAnalyzer 1500S optical spectrum analyzer; A display of the company’s market-leading product line of ultra-high-speed photodetectors, including a 70GHz dual wavelength device, useful in coherent test and measurement systems and ultra-high RF output power photodetectors suitable for microwave photonics and Radio over Fiber applications.