Vector Photonics Appoints Calum Hill Development Engineer

National Photonics Initiative (NPI) advocates met with lawmakers this week to discuss reauthorization of the National Quantum Initiative (NQI), which was originally signed into law in 2018....

Adrian Meldrum joined the board of Vector Photonics as executive chair. Meldrum has served in leadership positions at companies including G&H (Gooch & Housego), Oclaro, IQE, and Bookham. ...

GLASGOW, Scotland — Vector Photonics appointed Bill Ring to it executive team as chief product officer. Ring previously held senior roles at HP, Tyco Electronics, Solar Systems, Poet...

Coherent Corp. named Beck Mason executive vice president of telecommunications. Mason will lead the telecommunications business unit within the company’s networking segment. He joins Coherent...

An uncooled continuous wave photonic crystal surface-emitting laser (PCSEL) from Vector Photonics is targeted for the interconnects, silicon photonics, and co-packaged optics used in datacenter...

The LIM-082 from InfraTec is a small beamsplitter detector in current mode that can be used in gas measurement technology. With its integrated operational amplifier, the detector provides a large,...

The NavVis MLX from NavVis is a handheld laser scanning tool for industrial applications. The scanner captures point cloud data with a 32-layer lidar sensor along with 270° and 360° panoramic...

The Model 801 from LASNIX is a neutral-density attenuator for broadly tuned lasers, nonlinear generation via ultrafast pulses, level setting for mode analysis and detector calibration, and in...

Materials processing with lasers is actually a broad term for a diverse range of applications. The major categories of these uses, and the lasers that service them, are summarized Table 1. At one...

When purchasing an industrial laser system, the astute buyer will look for a Class 1 laser product — a system where the laser beam hazard is completely enclosed and there is no potential laser...

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The ubiquitous Nd:YAG laser has played many roles over the years. For the military, it has provided rangefinding and target designation capabilities. When used with nonlinear optics or as a pump...

While high laser-induced damage threshold is a buzzword when talking femtosecond & picosecond optics, it is not (only) the nominal LIDT value that matters. Color-change effect is an arch-enemy and a...

The erbium-doped glass laser is used in the field of eye-safe rangefinders and is characterized by its reliability and cost effectiveness. This laser is also known as the 1535nm DPSS eye-safe laser...

Finding the ideal ultra-fast laser source for a multiphoton imaging setup is not trivial. It is a fine balance between peak power, pulse energy and laser wavelength. In this white paper we show that...

Answering some common questions new users of optical design and analysis software have are “How accurate are the results?” or “Can I trust the results I get?” and discussing the importance of...

Anti-reflective (AR) coatings are now entering their second century and have remained virtually unchanged throughout their life. As power level and wavelength range requirements continue to increase,...

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...

Tian Gu outlines the opportunities enabled by and challenges of employing metasurface flat optics in optical systems that are traditionally bulky and complicated. Leveraging a low-loss,...

Laser welding has developed into one of the most used joining techniques in sheet metals for applications such as car bodies, medical devices, sensors, batteries, and more. To create successful welds...

In data communications, the instrumentation connecting two stations: transmitters, receivers and the cable that runs between them.

A MEMS fiber optic switch is a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device designed to selectively route optical signals between multiple fiber optic channels. These switches utilize miniature...

Optical fiber in which the attenuation exceeds the normally acceptable level for long-haul or data communications use.

A signal, generated by an oscillator, that provides the means of synchronization of operations in a data communications network.

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

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...

Members of the Capasso Group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have successfully encoded multiple holographic images in a metasurface. The separate...

Tune into this month's edition of Light Matters for 'Part 1' of an exclusive interview with SPIE CEO, Eugene Arthurs, as he speaks about his upcoming retirement. We’ll also take you to Rochester,...

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),...

Fermionics Opto-Technology is an independent manufacturer of InGaAs photodiodes for data, voice, and video communications; large-area photodiodes for instrumentation and sensing applications; optical...