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Photonics Spectra - August 2024


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Lasers Accelerate the Application of Secondary Sources, Among Others For many years, secondary sources were just a vision held by scientists. Eventually, their progress was driven by the goal to build a particle accelerator, such as the Large Hadron Collider in a laser lab at the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN). The physics behind this vision are intriguing: An electron can be accelerated by a light pulse much faster, and much more energy efficient,...
Visualizing Brilliance: Exploring Optical Design Through Simulation From medical devices to precision instruments used for industrial manufacturing, innovative optical technologies are being increasingly integrated into products across numerous industries. The micro-...
Highly Efficient Multijunction VCSELs Advance for Automotive Lidar Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have garnered significant attention for various sensing and visualization applications during the past three decades. The sustained progress in their...
A 15-Week Technician Program Bolsters Central Florida’s Optics Ecosystem The metropolitan areas of Orlando and Tampa, Fla., experienced the fourth and fifth largest annual population gains, respectively, in the U.S. in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Charles...
Powerful Tailwinds Support Fusion Energy’s Commercialization Road Map Fusion energy has promised for decades to offer a clean, carbon-free, safe, and virtually limitless source to power the planet. Now that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists on...
Editorial
Escalating efforts to meet workforce demands Regional clusters are a hallmark of the North American photonics landscape. The cluster model, by its nature, enables individual regions to spearhead scientific progress in the technology areas that drive economic opportunity. On a larger scale, this model ensures that the photonics ecosystem on this continent retains influence from each of the individual regions that compose it. Think Rochester,...
Laser Safety
Class 4 Laser Access Faces Its Next Wave of Challenges Among the broad range of technologies that are governed by standards, Class 4 laser systems face a familiar hurdle. While technology standards aim to build parameters for safety, access, and performance, they often struggle to keep pace with the advancements that improve and add value to the technologies that they are ultimately designed to help regulate and streamline for use. Those who are...
Industry Insight
Growing the Photonics Workforce Demands an Early Start Industry workforce reports and popular news stories have made it clear: There is a glaring need to increase the number of workers in photonics and in the semiconductor industry more broadly. In 2021, MIT researchers projected that U.S.-based middle-skilled and select lower-skilled positions within the photonics industry would grow from around 58,000 to nearly 85,000 by 20301. In 2023, the...
Technology News
Photonic Insulator Enhances Study of Light-Matter Interactions Exciton-polaritons — the hybrid quasiparticles of excitons and photons — have the potential to serve as a tunable, nonlinear platform for studying topological phenomena. However, due to limitations in materials, experimental observations using an exciton-polariton platform so far have been unable to enter the nonlinear condensation regime. A photonic topological insulator can guide...
Chip-scale Erbium Laser Points to Portable Integrated Systems At the crossroads of growing demand for fiber lasers and chip-scale lasers, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a chip-integrated erbium-doped...
On-Chip Laser Showcases Self-Sustained Comb Operation Optical frequency combs have been transformational for metrology, spectroscopy, atomic clocks, and other applications, but their utility outside of lab and industrial settings has yet to be realized...
Fiber Optic Gyroscope Monitors Risk in Active Volcanoes A research group from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (CNR-INO), National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) have...
WGM Resonators Get Sensitivity and Portability Boost for In-Field Use The high sensitivity, rapid response, and label-free nature of whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators enable many biochemical applications, such as early diagnostics and prognostics, food and water...
Laser Patterning Raises Soft Electronics' Operation Possibilities Using a laser ablation patterning technique, researchers from the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology and Pohang University of Science and Technology fabricated deformable microsupercapacitors...
Quantum Optical Sensor Aims to Increase MRI Scan Quality, Speed Although MRI scanners provide 3D images of exceptional quality, they require frequent calibration and are limited in the types of scans they can perform. Their strong magnetic field can cause...
Light-matter Discovery Challenges Understanding of Photon Momenta Although bulk silicon does not naturally emit light, silicon that is porous and nanostructured can produce detectable light after being exposed to visible radiation. This phenomenon, although not...
Blurred Light Delivers 3D-printed, High-Quality Optics Researchers from the National Research Council of Canada have developed a 3D printing method called blurred tomography that can rapidly produce microlenses with commercial-level optical quality. The...
Industry News
Black Semiconductor Raises $275 Million Graphene chip developer Black Semiconductor has raised €254.4 million (~$275.4 million) in funding. The startup is developing a method to build networks of graphene-based chips to speed network...
Atom Computing Lands Investment, Expands Overseas Quantum computing developer Atom Computing has received a 70 million DKK ($10.2 million) investment from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO). The company will establish its European...
Quandela Launches Pilot Line for Qubit Devices Quantum computing startup Quandela has established a pilot line for high-performance photonic qubit devices. Located at The Photovoltaic Institute of Île-de-France (IPVF), the line is expected...
Fusion Startup Xcimer Raises $100M, Plans Laser Prototype Fusion energy startup Xcimer Energy has raised $100 million in a series A financing round. The company plans to use the funds to establish a new facility in Denver where it will build a prototype...
ASML and imec Debut Joint Lithography Lab ASML and imec have opened their jointly-run High NA EUV Lithography Lab in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. Following a years-long building and integration period, the lab will provide early access to...
Coherent Names CEO Coherent Corp. has appointed Jim Anderson as CEO, and a member of its board of directors. Anderson succeeds Vincent “Chuck” Mattera, who announced his retirement as chairman and CEO in...
EU Effort Achieves Initial Graphene Photonic Integrated Circuit The EU-funded Graphene-based All-Optical Technology Platform for Secure Internet of Things (GATEPOST) project has presented the first photonic integrated GATEPOST chip. Presented at a meeting of the...
AmeriCOM Adds Keene State College to Workforce Development Network The American Center for Optics Manufacturing (AmeriCOM) has partnered with New Hampshire's Keene State College, marking the workforce training initiative's first partnership with a postsecondary...
imec-Led Pilot Line to Support Early-Stage Semiconductor Tech In collaboration with partners CEA-Leti, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, VTT, CSSNT, and Tyndall Institute, imec will work with European and global equipment and material suppliers to establish the NanoIC...
ASML, University Partner Commit to $195M for Semiconductor R&D ASML and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/Eindhoven) signed an agreement to expand their existing collaboration over the next ten years, with investment set to support semiconductor...
ZEISS to Establish Photonics and Optics Business Unit ZEISS plans to establish a dedicated Photonics & Optics business unit within the ZEISS Group starting in the next fiscal year 2024/25, the company said in a statement. The business unit will...
NVIDIA Strikes Quantum Supercomputing Partnership Agreements NVIDIA has partnered with quantum computing centers in Germany, Japan, and Poland who will each adopt the company’s open-source NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform. The sites will utilize the platform to...
Lighter Side
You … shall not … pass inspection! The Lord of the Rings shares a precious few commonalities with the contemporary workforce. The journey that Frodo, Gandalf, and the rest of the fellowship undertook to the fiery mouth of Mount Doom to cast the one ring into the flames and rid Middle-Earth of an ancient evil, for example, may well extend beyond the rigors of your nine-to-five and day-to-day. At the same time, invisible —...
Products
FBG Wavelength Locker The WaveLock Series from TeraXion are Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) lockers for laser diode stabilization and control. The lockers feature high wavelength accuracy, low temperature dependence, a high...
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Granite-Based Wafer Stages PI’s granite-based multi-axis motion systems can be used for the automation of wafer metrology, glass substrate inspection, and lithography applications. Based on modular concepts, the stages...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Laser Sensor The Coherent PM10K+ from Coherent is a laser power sensor for measuring the power output of CO2, fiber, diode, and continuous wave lasers. In less than three seconds, the calorimeter-based sensor is...
Coherent Corp.
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UVA LED Emitter The SST-08H-UV from Luminus Devices is a high-power UV-A LED for applications such as horticulture, curing inks, medical instrumentation, fluorescence imaging, disinfection, and flashlight...
Luminus Devices Inc.
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3D Lidar Sensor The YLM-10LX from Lumotive and Hokuyo Automatic is a 3D lidar sensor for industrial automation and service robotics applications. Built with Lumotive’s light control metasurface optical...
Lumotive LLC
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Benchtop Microscopes The BC43 WF and SR from Oxford Instruments Andor are widefield and super resolution, respectively, benchtop microscopes for studying single cell and multicellular organoids, tissue sections, and...
Oxford Instruments
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RGB-IR Stereo Camera The EAGLE 2 LI-VB1940-GM2A-119H from Leopard Imaging is an RGB-IR high-resolution stereo camera for autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI-IoT, and 3D reconstruction applications. Incorporating two...
Leopard Imaging Inc.
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Elevator Rotary Stages The ATR-V-60-60 Series from Optimal Engineering Systems are compact elevator-rotary stages that can be used in laser drilling, machining, inspection, metrology, mirror and camera positioning, and...
Optimal Engineering Systems Inc.
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MIR Imaging Module The Neutrino SX8-ISR 35-700 from Teledyne FLIR is an AI-enabled MWIR imaging module for integrators developing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems. Using Teledyne FLIR’s...
Teledyne FLIR
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4-Axis Receiver The Microgage Cylindrical 4-Axis Receiver from Pinpoint Laser Systems is suitable for industrial machinery alignment applications. The receiver measures two linear axes, X- and Y-, and their two...
Pinpoint Laser Systems
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Compact Oscilloscope The MXO 5C series from Rohde & Schwarz is a compact oscilloscope for addressing rack mount and automated test system applications where users are confronted with space limitations. Doubling as a...
Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
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Static Target Projector The LWIR STP from Optikos is a long wavelength infrared fixed-focus static target projector for testing automotive thermal cameras and LWIR cameras. The projector projects a virtual object from a...
Optikos Corporation
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Nanoscale Imager The IR-neaSCOPE from attocube is designed for nanoscale analysis that only requires measurements of IR absorption including IR imaging and spectroscopy. The imager detects laser-induced photothermal...
attocube systems AG
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Eye Safe Laser Modules The Eye Safe laser modules from Electro Optical Components is a family of compact laser modules for meteorological radar and laser range finding in drones or in military helmets. The modules produce...
Electro Optical Components Inc.
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Dual Extended-Head Camera The Phoenix Dual Extended-Head camera from LUCID Vision Labs is a GigE vision 2.0 camera for applications that require a wider field of view, including stereo vision systems, autonomous mobile...
LUCID Vision Labs Inc.
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Smart Mid-Infrared Laser The TOPO smart from TOPTICA Photonics AG is a smart continuous wave mid-IR laser for sensing and spectroscopy applications. An optical parametric oscillator, the laser uses a pumping scheme to boost...
Toptica Photonics AG
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PID Controller The MLC Series from Bristol Instruments is a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller that can electronically control the frequency output of multiple lasers. The controller can work with...
Bristol Instruments Inc.
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DBR Laser Cores The ML6600 from Modulight is a distributed Bragg reflector laser core for quantum spectroscopy applications with high levels of mechanical, optical, and acoustical isolation. Coming in wavelengths of...
Modulight Inc.
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UV Spectroradiometers The CSSS-45-UV and BTS256-LED-UV (shown) from Gigahertz-Optik are UV Spectroradiometers for industrial, medical, and research applications. The CSSS-45-UV detects UV LED irradiance from 200 - 400 nm...
Gigahertz-Optik Inc.
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Pockels Cell The Pegasus Pockels Cell solution from G&H is a lithium niobate Pockels cell design that can be used as an alternative to rubidium titanyl phosphate for near- and mid-infrared applications. Meant...
G&H
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Low-Profile Mirror Mount Optical Surfaces Ltd.’s low profile mirror mount provides a secure platform for large and heavy high-precision flat, spherical, on-axis, and off-axis mirrors. Designed in black anodized...
Optical Surfaces Ltd.
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Laser Cleaning System The CleanTech CR-3030 from Laser Photonics Corporation is a small form factor class IV dual axis roughening laser for cleaning, roughening, and surface preparation. Supplied with an air-cooling...
Laser Photonics Corp.
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