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Photonics Spectra - February 2024


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DUV Lasers Scale Up Pulse Energy and End Markets In the early 2000s, a husband-and-wife team, Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin of Texas Tech University, first demonstrated the range of outstanding features provided by micro-LED displays. Since then, the technology has seen increasing adoption in the display screens of a growing number of popular electronic devices. Their applications range from large video walls to microdisplays for wearables and...
Photonics Reshapes the Future of Computing Moore’s law has been challenged many times during the past sixty years, but semiconductor engineers always found new tricks to continue doubling the density of transistors on a chip. In the...
Part by Part: The Anatomy of a Raman Microscope Raman microscopy is a fantastic technique for analyzing the chemical composition of samples. It is a nondestructive technique that mitigates the need for material preparation and the use of stains or...
Editorial
And the band plays on … I have never been one to leave a party early, much less when the band is just warming up. But this, sadly, will be my final editorial column for Photonics Spectra. Fortunately, my next professional endeavor will not carry me entirely beyond photonics, because all signs indicate that this industry has barely hit the dance floor. Regular readers will have noticed that, though some photonics sectors...
Laser Safety
Laser Safety Committees: The Practical Alternative to Injury Many a researcher has probably shared, at one time or another, the wry sentiment, “Meetings: the practical alternative to work.” I would argue that serving on your institution’s laser safety committee (LSC) does not involve meetings that fall into that category. Whether you are starting, rekindling, or joining your organization’s laser safety program, a functional, engaged...
Industry Insight
Navigating Business and Boundaries in China’s Markets The decision to do business in China presents complex challenges for many companies in the European Union EU and the U.S. China now leads in 37 out of the 44 technologies listed on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Critical Technology Tracker. Sectors in which China has a nominal lead include photonic sensors, photovoltaics, and advanced optical communications, among others. In...
Technology News
Laser Technology Mobilizes Head Trauma Assessment The decisions made about patient care in the hour following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are critical to patient outcome. A hand-held diagnostic device to assess the severity of the injury immediately, at the point of care, could make the difference between a successful outcome or irreversible brain damage following a TBI. To enable timely intervention, researchers at the University of...
Optofluidics Yields a Better Reflective Display With the advent of the IoT, there is increased need to display large amounts of information to people quickly and without distortion in all types of lighting conditions. Though transmissive and...
EUV Sources Track Molecular Dissociation in Tandem Reportedly for the first time, scientists have combined a broadband extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) probe pulse from high-order harmonic generation (HHG) with a free-electron laser (FEL) pump pulse to...
Optical Data Storage Dips Below the Diffraction Limit Physicists at The City College of New York (CCNY) have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in...
Nanowire Single-photon Detector Lets Machines See Through Walls Using a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) as the light-sensing element, researchers from Tianjin University demonstrated non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging at two infrared (IR)...
Compact Accelerator Achieves a Major Energy Milestone A compact particle accelerator developed by the University of Texas at Austin, several national laboratories, and the Texas-based company TAU Systems has produced an electron beam with an energy of...
Micrometric Photovoltaic Cells Aim To Shrink Electronic Devices Researchers have manufactured back-contact micrometric photovoltaic cells, a world-first, according to the multi-institutional collaborators. The work paves the way for a new era of miniaturization...
Algorithm Boosts Live-Cell Imaging's Capabilities Superresolution radial fluctuations (SRRF), a superresolution algorithm, works by observing fluctuations in radial symmetry throughout the frames of an image. SRRF supports live-cell, superresolution...
Plasma-infused Pulse Compression Proposes Pathway to Zettawatt Lasers The ability to compress laser pulses to ultrahigh powers could open the way for compact lasers in the order of exawatt and above. Such powerful lasers would enable scientists to push the limits of...
Industry News
Optical Computing Leader Lightmatter Adds $155M in Funding Photonic chip developer Lightmatter raised $155 million in a series C-2 funding round led by Google Ventures and Viking Global Investors. The company intends to use the financing to expand its...
Neurophos Raises $7.2M in Seed Round Neurophos, a spinout of Duke University and Metacept Inc. and incubator focused on creating metamaterials-based companies, raised $7.2 million in seed round funding to commercialize metamaterial and...
Myrias Optics Secures $3M to Support Optics Offerings University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst spinout company Myrias Optics has secured a $3 million seed investment. Myrias, a developer of all-inorganic printed meta-optics, said that it will use the...
$10B Earmarked for Extreme-UV Lithography Center A high-numerical aperture extreme-ultraviolet (NA EUV) lithography center is set to be built at the NanoTech Complex semiconductor research facility in Albany, N.Y. The state of New York partnered...
BAE Systems Is Recipient of First CHIPS Act Funding Award BAE Systems has received an approximately $35 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce to modernize its Microelectronics Center (MEC) in Nashua, N.H. The award is the first funding...
DOE Unites Fusion Research Trailblazers with $42M Injection The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled a $42 million initiative to establish three research hubs — at the University of Rochester (UR), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL),...
BluGlass Wins Laser Development Contract, Buys GaNWorks Foundry BluGlass has signed a $1.8 million contract with North Carolina State University (NCSU) for laser development as part of the Commercial Leap Ahead for Wide Bandgap Semiconductors (CLAWS) Hub. This...
Nüvü Enters into Quantum Compute Effort with Infleqtion, Riverlane Nüvü Cameras, a developer of ultrasensitive imaging technology, has partnered with quantum computing company Riverlane and quantum technology firm Infleqtion to develop imaging systems to...
Brilliance Lands Investment from PhotonVentures and Oost NL Netherlands-based integrated laser technology startup company Brilliance has secured €2 million ($2.16 million) in seed funding from Oost NL and PhotonVentures. Brilliance’s silicon...
Polaris Electro-Optics Raises Seed Financing Colorado-based integrated photonics startup Polaris Electro-Optics has closed a $3 million seed financing round. The company, which develops technology for the communications and computing...
Photonics and Semiconductor Firms Receive almost $10M from USPAE Seven microelectronics firms have received almost $10 million in combined funding to commercialize technologies of interest to the U.S. military as winners of the Defense Business Accelerator (DBX)...
ABB to Provide Hyperspectral Systems for GHGSat ABB will build hyperspectral cameras for four GHGSat satellites set to launch in 2024. The hyperspectral camera systems will be provided for the C12, C13, C14, and C15 satellites — part of an...
nLIGHT Awarded $34.5M Defense Contract nLIGHT Inc. has been selected to provide a high-energy laser (HEL) in support of the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air...
Altechna Acquires Alpine Research Optics Altechna, a provider of laser optics and optomechanical assemblies, has acquired Alpine Research Optics (ARO), an OEM laser optics company based in Boulder, Colo., that specializes in ultraviolet...
SENER Leads Probe Construction for ESA’s Comet Interceptor Mission Engineering and technology group SENER will lead the design and manufacture of the space probe and scientific instruments for the Comet Interceptor mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). SENER,...
Quandela Secures $54M to Support Expansion Photonic quantum computing company Quandela has secured more than €50 million ($54.7 million) from investors, public funding, and banking partners to support the company’s international...
Energetiq Forms Laser-Driven Light Source Business Unit Photonics manufacturer Energetiq has formed a laser-driven light source (LDLS) business unit. Energetiq’s LDLS technology creates extremely small, high-brightness plasma that delivers efficient...
SiLC Receives $25M to Develop Machine Vision for AI SiLC Technologies Inc. has secured $25 million in funding to expand production to support designs for its Eyeonic vision solutions. The additional funding also supports continued product development,...
LASER-TEC College Profile
Northwestern Michigan College Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) offers an Associate of Applied Science degree in engineering technology with an electronics specialization, which includes elective studies on lasers and optics technology. The degree program focuses, in part, on the applied aspects of science and engineering technology to provide students with practice in the technology spectrum, including product improvement,...
Lighter Side
The smartest dope in the room There are many roadblocks that can arise on the roadway to scientific discovery. Money always seems to be a big factor. When the well runs dry, so does access to the lab. But besides the almighty dollar, the other major obstacle faced by researchers trying to make a name for themselves is time. Although someone might get lucky once in a while and stumble on a discovery immediately, most...
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