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Photonics Spectra - January 2021
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Nonvisible Imaging Expands Resolution, Range, Applications
The ability to image beyond the visible spectrum offers more than a quantitative expansion of our perceptions. It also provides qualitative improvements with applicable value to public health, manufacturing, and the safety and quality of food. These and other applications are benefiting today from advancements in higher sensor resolutions, new lighting strategies, and more cost-effective...
High-Speed Imaging Capabilities and Applications Expand
Fast and efficient delivery of product into the customer’s hands is the endgame in manufacturing. Any defect that occurs as products progress along the manufacturing line may be magnified, which can...
Packing Light: Spectroscopy Goes Mobile
Portable spectroscopic instruments have dramatically expanded their capabilities and detection limits over the past 20 years, while becoming smaller, lighter, and faster. The examples of this today...
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As Science Advances Lasers, So Lasers Advance Research
Lasers have been used to conduct academic research nearly since their invention in 1960, and these sources of coherent light quickly found diverse, if not precisely directed, applications. “Some of...
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An Essential Exchange of Ideas Would Benefit the Optics Industry
Highly dispersive mirrors, nanostructured coatings, and freeform optics are the vanguard in optics, and they are well positioned to expand performance and open up new applications. But there’s...
Emerging Applications Signal New Opportunities for Spectroscopy
Advancements in spectrometer components and modules are converging with system-level designs to enable more compact, cost-efficient, and robust instruments that are extending the benefits of...
Laser Processing Tools Introduce Flexible Options for Brittle Glass
On Feb. 6, 2016, researchers from the University of Southampton Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) presented UNESCO with a small glass disc during the closing ceremony of the Year of Light. At the...
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The best way to predict the future
Welcome to 2021, and all the clean-slate, fresh-start, corners-turned positivity that a new year represents. After the grueling economic, social, and political tumult of 2020, the inclination toward optimism feels both dangerous and unavoidable — much like our inclination toward prediction. If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that attempting to predict the future can be a very hazardous...
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Researchers Devise Method to Observe Atomic Interactions, Quantum Mechanics
Researchers from Princeton University have formulated a method to control and measure atoms that are indistinguishable when observed with an optical lens. The work allows the researchers to observe atomic interactions and quantum mechanical behavior. The research has implications for quantum networking and the study of the fundamental dynamics of strongly interacting quantum systems. By studying...
Researchers Claim New Record in Quantum Light Detection
Researchers from the University of Bristol have claimed a new record for detecting squeezed light, using a newly developed balanced homodyne detector. The work could pave the way for...
Capturing the Invisible with Upconversion Technology
New technology from researchers at Tel Aviv University has the potential to help cameras recognize colors that are invisible to the human eye. The development has potential to advance applications in...
Infrared Spectroscopy Technique Unveils Insights into Planet Formation
Planetary scientists at Brown University have introduced an infrared spectroscopic method for studying olivine, a mineral that provides insights into the formation of the moon, Mars, and other...
Scientists Publish Blueprints for Cheaper Single-Molecule Microscope
A team from the University of Sheffield has designed and built a single-molecule microscope for one-tenth the cost of commercially available models — and shared the build instructions to make...
Large-Area Organic Photodiodes Offer Cost-effective Alternative to Silicon Sensors
A research team at Georgia Tech has demonstrated that large-area organic photodiodes, produced from solutions at low temperatures, can detect several hundred thousand photons every second. The...
Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Light Propogates Beyond Laboratory Walls
Researchers at MIT and the University of Waterloo (Canada) created a high-power quantum cascade laser (QCL) capable of generating terahertz radiation outside of a laboratory environment. The laser...
Photonic Barcodes Pave the Way for Encryption, Biosensing
Bioresponsive barcodes, capable of detecting molecules in a single liquid droplet, generated radiative energy that successfully converted dynamic biomolecular information into trillions of...
Microscopy Advancement Expands Camera-based 3D Imaging
Researchers at Boston University introduced a multifocus optical microscopy technique for simultaneously acquiring images at differing depths. The method can be added to existing camera-based...
Quantum Theorists Rise Beyond Decades-Old Laser Limitation
Quantum theorists from Griffith University and Macquarie University, both in Australia, used quantum mechanics to overturn an assertion about laser coherence that has been the common belief for 60...
3D Visualization Method Reveals Molecular Position, Orientation, Oscillations
Researchers at the University of Rochester and the Fresnel Institute in France developed a method for visualizing molecules’ position and orientation in 3D, as well as their oscillations. The...
3D Ultrafast Camera Captures Light Traveling Through Air
An ultrafast 3D camera developed in the lab of Lihong Wang at Caltech is capable of capturing the movement of light in three dimensions. The camera records in stereo at 100 billion frames per second....
Single-cavity Laser Emits High-Power, Dual-Comb Femtosecond Pulses
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that uses a single laser cavity to create two high-powered optical frequency combs, emitting high-power femtosecond pulses. The advance supports...
Coherently Combined, 10.4-kW Laser Delivers Record Power
Coherent beam combining, paired with direct water cooling in the testing stage of development, has helped produce the new ultrafast fiber laser technology introduced by the Institute of Applied...
Nitrogen-Filled Hollow-Core Fiber Shifts Ultrafast Laser Spectra toward the Infrared
Researchers from Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Quebec City have introduced a method for tuning a laser’s spectrum to the infrared range. In collaboration with...
Spherical Laser Resonator Achieves 10M Circulations of Light
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have introduced a laser-resonator design inspired by the work of Arthur Ashkin. Created by graduate student Jacob Kher-Alden under the supervision...
Extreme UV Source Facility Opens for Use
University of Tokyo researchers have established a high-frequency laser source facility located at the university that enables investigation of time-dependent phenomena such as ultrafast chemical...
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UK and Canada Collaborate on Quantum Tech
United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada are backing eight projects that seek to commercialize quantum technologies. According to UKRI, the effort is the first industry-led partnership between any two countries to develop quantum technologies. The partnership follows an agreement signed by the two nations in 2017 to...
International Team Awarded $13M Grant for Superresolution Microscopy
An international research team headed by Markus Sauer of the University of Würzburg has been awarded a grant to pursue research in superesolution microscopy, aimed at advancing the study of...
TRUMPF and SICK to Develop Industrial Quantum Sensor
TRUMPF subsidiary Q.ANT and sensor specialist SICK signed a collaboration agreement for the development of industrial quantum sensors. The signing was preceded by a successful demonstration of what...
UCF’s Kyu Young Han Receives NIH Grants
Kyu Young Han, assistant professor in the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Optics and Photonics, has been awarded two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The first is a...
PerkinElmer to Acquire WUK-based Horizon Discovery
PerkinElmer announced it will acquire Horizon Discovery, a Cambridge, England-based cell engineering company. The acquisition will expand PerkinElmer’s life sciences discovery and applied...
CEA-Leti to Build Quantum Photonics Platform
CEA-Leti announced plans to build a quantum photonics platform to develop technologies for industries requiring ultrasecure data transmission. The project is funded by Carnot, a French...
LaserNetUS Awarded $18M by US DOE
The U.S. Department of Energy announced $18 million in funding for LaserNetUS, a network of 10 high-intensity laser facilities at national laboratories and universities in the United States and...
Continental Expands Lidar Portfolio Through AEye Investment
Automotive company Continental signed an agreement for a minority investment in California-based lidar company AEye. The companies will jointly develop a high-performance long-range lidar sensor...
Nanohmics to Test Hyperspectral Imager on International Space Station
Nanohmics Inc., in collaboration with the University of Maryland and the NASA Langley Research Center, will send a prototype compact hyperspectral imager to the International Space Station (ISS)...
Max Planck, University of Ottawa Collaboration Extended Five Years
The Max Planck Society announced an extended, five-year round of funding for the Max Planck—University of Ottawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics (MPC-EQP). The international...
SMART Global Holdings to Purchase Cree LED Products Business
SMART Global Holdings Inc. entered into an agreement with Cree Inc. to purchase the Cree LED Products business. The acquisition is valued at up to $300 million. SMART, a developer of electronics...
Photonics Digital Innovation Hub Lands $22.5M Investment
PhotonHub Europe, a newly established pan-European photonics digital innovation hub, has been awarded a €19 million investment from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. The hub will...
Convergent Photonics Awarded $2.5M for Manufacturing Center
Convergent Photonics has been awarded a $2,581,109 grant from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative to support the development of an advanced manufacturing center in partnership with...
AdvanTech, Quanergy Partner to Build Lidar-Based Solutions
AdvanTech Service-IoT GmbH, an industrial computing solutions developer, and Quanergy Systems Inc., a producer and developer of lidar sensors and smart perception technology, announced their...
Aarhus University Awarded Grant for Vision-Enhanced Plastics Recycling
Aarhus University has been awarded a $3.5 million grant (22.7 million DKK) to develop a camera-based system for the separation of plastic waste according to type. Aarhus will be working with waste...
Osram, Continental Dissolve Joint Venture Business
Osram and Continental are separating their joint venture business Osram Continental, a developer of smart automotive lighting systems, and returning the business to the respective companies. The two...
Bridger Photonics’ Aerial Lidar Technology Secures DOE Program Funding
The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding Bridger Photonics, a developer of ladar and lidar imaging products and technologies, $4.57 million from the department’s Advanced Research Projects...
Photonics at Work
Photonic Return Charts Course for Laser-Ranging Experiments
Extensively in the last 50 years, intermittently in the last decade, and with newfound success in receiving a return on their efforts this past summer, NASA scientists have taken aim at the moon with high-power laser beams. Receiving even a faint signal back from the moon is a stark improbability: NASA estimates that a photon launched from Earth has about a 1-in-25-million chance of reaching the...
Past Particles
How Newton’s Prisms Fueled a Spectrum of Spectroscopy Techniques
According to BCC Research, the global market for spectroscopy equipment is on track to reach more than $16 billion by 2023. The market encompasses a variety of techniques, ranging from absorption to Raman spectroscopy, and it has enabled applications in end markets including research, industry, and biotechnology. Tracing the size, scope, and diversity of the technology’s origins could fill a...
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3 Questions with Nishikant ‘Nish’ Sonwalkar
Nishikant “Nish” Sonwalkar, founder of SunDensity and inventor of the company’s trademarked photonic smart coating (PSC) technology, was named the top winner of the Luminate NY Finals in September 2020. The Luminate NY accelerator supports startups that offer optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI)-enabled technologies. As winner of Luminate NY’s third cohort, Sonwalker earned $1 million in funding...
LASER-TEC College Profile
State Technical College of Missouri
State Technical College of Missouri has offered associate degrees and certificate programs in electronics engineering and biomedical engineering technology for over 30 years. Its Associate of Applied Science tracks include degree programs for electronics engineering technology with a specialization in laser photonics, as well as a program for biomedical engineering technology. The college also...
Lighter Side
Habaneros restore shine to silver nanoparticle production
Habanero peppers can do more than burn our mouths and make us sweaty. Their applications extend beyond the culinary world. While their abundance and flavor make them a staple in hot sauces and spicy cuisines, habaneros could also find use for synthesizing silver nanoparticles. With applications in antibacterial coatings for textiles, keyboards, wound dressings, and biomedical devices, silver...
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Protective Conduits
OPTOFLEX Protective Conduits from AerosUSA Inc. provide protection for laser technology, fiber optics, medical endoscopes, sensor and measurement technology, and more. Reliable and durable, the...
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Microscopy Sample Finder
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sample Finder for the Axio Observer microscope from Carl Zeiss AG reduces time to experiment for sample identification. The sample carrier is identified and...
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Digital Microscope
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Polarizer Sensors
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Hand-held Laser Welding System
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CMOS Laser Sensor
The E3AS-HL CMOS Laser Sensor from Omron Corp. provides reliable detection of difficult targets that cannot be detected with reflective photoelectric sensors. Helping to eliminate the need for...
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Motorized Optical Stand
The OpenStand® motorized optical stand from Prior Scientific Inc. is a unique modular platform that helps users develop custom optical platforms. When combined with a range of readily...
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IR Bandpass Filter
The BP 850-80 HT IR bandpass filter from Schneider-Kreuznach is designed for applications with IR high-power LEDs of 850 nm. The filters can join cameras equipped with LEDs that deliver...
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Optical Analysis System
The GeoImage™ optical analysis system from CRAIC Technologies Inc. grades the energy of vitrinite and other macerals commonly found in coal, kerogen, and source rock. The GeoImage™...
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The MiniSlide™ MSA series of linear actuators from Haydon Kerk Pittman reduces the time, cost, and performance concerns associated with developing guided linear assemblies from individual...
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Laser Measurement Probe
The vProbe Laser Measurement Probe from Automated Precision Europe GmbH (API) provides coordinate-measuring machine measurements directly on the production floor. The wireless device features...
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Raman Spectroscopy Laser
HÜBNER Photonics GmbH has announced the 08-NLD 488-nm laser by Cobolt for Raman spectroscopy. The device joins the 08-01 Series of compact, high-performance single-frequency and...
HUBNER Photonics GmbH
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Lidar Laser Module
The Model 1790 high-power laser module from EMCORE Corp. is a 1550-nm device for lidar and optical sensing, particularly in autonomous driving. The module was developed for use as...
EMCORE Corp.
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Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer
The AQ1210D dual-purpose optical time-domain reflectometer from Yokogawa Electric Corp. is a four-wavelength device designed for both single- and multimode fiber networks. To meet the demands...
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Electron-Multiplying CCD Camera
The KE60V-BV-CL Kestrel electron-multiplying CCD digital camera from Raptor Photonics Ltd. offers single-photon sensitivity at KHz frame rates. Using a cooled back-illuminated sensor, it offers...
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Violet Laser Modules
The HL40113MG and HL40115MG violet laser diodes from Ushio Inc. emit wavelengths of 405 nm at a continuous-wave, optical output power of 600 mW. The devices provide improved wall-plug...
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Bare Fiber Adapters
Bare fiber adapters from OZ Optics Ltd. provide a simple and effective way to use unterminated fibers with commercial receptacles. Users strip, clean, and cleave their fiber, inserting it into...
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