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Through various information and communication technologies, smart cities provide services like education, medical care, safety, transportation, and utilities. Many of the services that smart cities...

Perovskite technology developer Caelux closed a $12 million series A3 funding round. The company’s series A total of $24 million will be allocated to support its factory ramp, R&D, and...

An ultra-efficient on-chip supercontinuum laser developed by researchers at the University of Twente is poised to enable applications ranging from portable medical imaging devices to chemical sensing...

Operating a chain saw poses an inherent risk that even the most experienced user is aware of and accepts. But what if the tool were a laser-based rust remover? These hand-held systems can have...

The Sentinel suite from Luminar Technologies is a full-stack software suite for automakers to accelerate safety and autonomous functionality in vehicles. The AI-based software leverages...

The ECS 4090 from Automation Technology is a large field of view 3D sensor for applications in the food industry, logistics, and robot vision. By supporting standard interfaces such as GenICam and...

The LMS-RF-NC-6025-NI-01 from LumiSpot Tech is an uncooled handheld rangefinder that uses infrared technology for target acquisition and images in both infrared and a color TV mode. The device's...

The microgage PRO Plus laser alignment system from Pinpoint Laser Systems operates with a laser transmitter, digital receiver, and smart display — with a precise laser beam to form a straight,...

Laser diodes vary widely in their wavelengths, powers, spectra and beam quality. Yet they share two fundamental components with all other lasers: an optical amplifier and a resonator that confines...

Excimers are pulsed gas lasers that deliver high output power and pulse energies in the ultraviolet and deep-ultraviolet wavelengths. This enables them to power applications that cannot be supported...

That portion of the spectrum that the eye can see — and its rainbow of colors — is rather small, covering approximately 360 to 830 nm. What colors we perceive depends on wavelength, while...

An optical time-domain reflectometer sends short pulses of light into a fiber and measures its reflections as a function of time. The delay of these reflections to the detector as well as their...

An in-depth look at the advancements in quantum computing and the use of lasers from the team at the Bernien Lab at the University of Chicago. The team builds quantum computers out of individual...

Despite the rapid development of modern lasers, the Gaussian intensity distribution often leads to problems, especially in laser material processing. When welding wide weld seams, a top-hat profile...

Protecting food crops is vital to the world’s food chain, and pesticides are a critical tool to kill, repel, and control pests. One method to reduce the dangers of pesticides is limiting the allowed...

Time-domain spectroscopies based on the optical Kerr effect (OKE) can provide a glimpse into the ultrafast processes that dictate fundamental properties of material and biological samples. Until...

Swierad introduces a novel approach in the consumer electronics market by leveraging femtosecond fiber lasers for the laser cleaving of ultra-thin glass (UTG), distinguishing this method from the...

Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, or VCSELs, are today being used for a broad range of applications, including 3D sensing, lidar, automotive manufacturing, laser printing, biomedical...

Industrial laser materials processing is constantly evolving. Industries as varied as pharmaceutical, consumer electronics, automotive, aerospace, and textiles, among others, have benefited from new...

This event is supported by the European initiatives presented and is moderated by EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium. The European Commission is helping companies access the...

Thin-film coatings are layers of material applied to the surface of an object or substrate, typically to modify its optical, electrical, or mechanical properties. These coatings are composed of thin...

A GaAlAs laser is a type of semiconductor laser diode that emits light in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is composed of layers of gallium, aluminum, and arsenic, hence...

Accessible radiation refers to the portion of radiation from a source that can be reached or detected by humans, instruments, or devices under specific conditions of use. This term is often used in...

A singulated die refers to an individual semiconductor chip that has been separated or singulated from a larger wafer. This term is commonly used in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. ...

A research team in Zurich breaks an ultrashort-pulse laser record. The ETH Zurich team lead by Ursula Keller is behind that breakthrough. PhotonDelta launches a PIC-based contest that could land one...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

Luminate NY, the only optics, photonics and imaging (OPI) accelerator and investment fund in the world, announced the final winners at the Light Tomorrow with Today event in Rochester, NY. For the...

Researchers at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a new phenomenon of quantum cascade laser frequency combs, which would allow the devices to...

A femtosecond laser is a type of laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light with durations on the order of femtoseconds, where one femtosecond is equal to 10^-15 seconds. These lasers are capable of...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

LASER SAFETY • Eyewear • Barriers • Windows • Training laservision USA designs and manufactures a comprehensive assortment of custom-made laser safety eyewear that attenuates...