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Photonics Spectra - May 2024


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Rare-Earth Doped Fibers Deliver Critical Elements to Dynamic Systems Industry’s favor for rare-earth doped fibers increased greatly in the last four decades. Erbium (Er)-doped telecom fiber amplifiers, for example, and ytterbium (Yb)- or thulium (Tm)-doped...
Bottlenecks in Process and Production Hinder Micro-LED Adoption Last fall, Samsung Electronics’ visual display business vice president, Tae-yong Son, described the company’s process for manufacturing micro-LED displays as “Trying to place a tiny...
Beam Deflection Units Increase the Efficiency of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology has become a cornerstone in the field of additive manufacturing (AM), especially in the production of metal parts. As a technique that offers unparalleled...
Fine and Fast Metal Printing Meets Industrial Challenges in 3D Two laser-based methods have taken precedence in additive manufacturing during the past several decades. In the first, the laser builds a larger 3D structure out of 2D contours in a powder bed. In...
Editorial
A roadblock on the roadmap Photonics Spectra’s seeming prescience is a fortunate by-product of our monthly publication schedule. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ decision to award Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, for example, greatly simplified the selection of our November 2023 cover story; contributing editor Marie Freebody, as if by fate, had polished off an...
Laser Safety
LED Applications Require Exposure Limits to Safeguard Consumers Many products, including some that are indispensable to modern society, experience widespread adoption before consequential health and safety risks emerge. Sometimes these adverse effects are minimal, affect a small percentage of the population, or occur only in certain unlikely circumstances. The exposure to asbestos and lead concentrations in consumer paints, for example, can result in more...
Technology News
Memory Element Enhances a Human Sight-Mimicking Quantum System Collaborating researchers from Hong Kong, China, and Germany have developed a quantum-sensing technology that encodes changes in fluorescence intensity into spikes that occur during optically...
Liquid Crystals Control Polarization in Laser-Written Waveguides Researchers in Germany have developed a way to control and manipulate optical signals by embedding a liquid crystal layer into waveguides created with direct laser writing. The work could lead to...
Polymer-Coated Metasurface Points to Sophisticated Sensor Devices A material coating, whose light refraction properties can be precisely switched between different states, has been developed by an interdisciplinary research team from the Chemistry and Physics...
Techniques Converge, Yield Attosecond Spectroscopy Milestone Researchers at the Max Born Institute in Berlin have demonstrated attosecond-pump attosecond-probe spectroscopy (APAPS) at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. The advance opens new avenues for the...
Researchers' 2D Waveguides Enable Dark Exciton Study A team at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in collaboration with Kansas State University, has developed slab waveguides based on the two-dimensional material hexagonal boron nitride. NRL...
Measurement Tool Optimizes Semiconductors for Optoelectronics Devices like solar cells, transistors, detectors, sensors, and LEDs are made with semiconductor materials that have charge carriers that are released when the carriers are hit with light. Determining...
Nanocavity Approach Enables Unprecedented Confinement, Lifetime Researchers from ICFO have introduced a type of polaritonic cavity which redefines the limits of light confinement. The work demonstrates an unconventional way of confining photons, overcoming...
Material Offers Efficient, Sustainable Emission for OLEDs A new, 3D-printable material that is a highly efficient emitter could lead to cheaper, more sustainable manufacturing processes for OLED devices. The material, called supramolecular ink, demonstrated...
Industry News
Tokamak Energy Commits to Testing Laser Technology for Fusion Power Plants Fusion energy technology developer Tokamak Energy is working on laser measurement technology crucial to controlling the extreme conditions inside future fusion power plants. The company is testing a laser-based dispersion interferometer system is at its Oxford, England headquarters and expects install the system on its ST40 fusion machine later this year.
Longview Fusion Energy Advances Plan for Fusion Power Plant Longview Fusion Energy Systems said last week that it has enlisted engineering and construction firm Fluor to design a laser fusion power plant — a step toward the company's stated goal of delivering...
VIAVI Solutions Agrees to Acquire Spirent in $1.3B Deal VIAVI Solutions has entered into an agreement to acquire London-based test and measurement company Spirent for £1 billion ($1.3 billion). The acquisition expands VIAVI’s portfolio by providing...
Intel Launches Stand-alone FPGA Firm Altera Intel has launched Altera, a standalone field programmable gate array company. Sandra Rivera, Intel’s executive vice president and CEO of its Programmable Solutions Group, serves as...
UK Funding Fuels Future Telecommunications Research U.K. Research and Innovation (UKRI) is providing £62 million ($78 million) to support the development of technologies crucial to future telecoms networks such as 6G. Funding will support...
ams OSRAM Reassessing Micro-LED Strategy Following Project Cancellation ams OSRAM is reassessing its micro-LED following the unexpected cancellation of a cornerstone project for its micro-LED program, the company said. Discussions with the related customer are ongoing....
Scintil, Tower Semiconductor Poised to Boost PIC Production Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) supplier Scintil Photonics has integrated III-V distributed feedback (DFB) lasers and amplifiers with standard silicon photonics technology in production at Tower...
Metalenz Partners with Samsung on Facial Recognition Tech Metalenz will use Samsung Electronics’ ISOCELL Vizion 931 technology as the image sensor component for its "Polar ID" imaging system. Metalenz offers the solution for facial biometrics. The...
DustPhotonics Gains $24M in Funding DustPhotonics, a silicon photonics technology developer for data center and AI applications, has completed an oversubscribed $24 million series B follow-on funding round. The company said that the...
Coherent CEO Mattera to Retire Coherent Corp. CEO Vincent Mattera has informed the company’s board of directors that he will retire as CEO following the hiring of a successor. The board has retained a leading executive...
GlobalFoundries to Receive $1.5B in CHIPS Act Funding The U.S. Department of Commerce will provide $1.5 billion in planned direct funding for GlobalFoundries (GF) as part of the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act. GF plans to use the funds to expand its...
Quantum Experts Present Roadmap to EU Policymakers Quantum experts from the EU’s Quantum Flagship initiative met with policymakers and representatives to present the Strategic Research and Industry Agenda SRIA 2030: Roadmap and Quantum...
BluGlass Collaborates with Applied Energetics Semiconductor technology company BluGlass Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tucson, Arizona-based directed energy and laser technology company Applied Energetics. Per the...
$20M Grant Funds Portable Eye-Scanning Tech The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded $20 million to develop a portable OCT system that could offer advanced eye screenings to many more patients at lower costs. The...
PlaqueTec, Babraham Institute collaborate on blood screening Biotechnology company PlaqueTec and the Babraham Institute’s Flow Cytometry Facility have begun a collaboration to develop cell phenotyping assay to detect cell subpopulations in human blood....
LASER-TEC College Profile
Gallatin College, Montana State University The state of Montana encompasses one of the densest per capita clusters of optics and photonics institutions in the U.S. To meet the ever-growing workforce demands of this local cluster — and of the nation overall — Gallatin College offers an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree in photonics and laser technology to develop highly trained photonics and electro-optic technicians. Located in...
Lighter Side
Your garden is absolutely glowing, darling n the realm of plant care, some people have worse than a snowball’s chance in the desert at achieving success. Some attempted gardeners are chronic under-feeders. By contrast, others can’t help but flood their plant life in too much water. In any case, many seem to lack the fundamentals of a green thumb. But don’t let us dissuade you from trying to raise that cactus in the rainforest. In a recent...
Products
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Time-of-Flight Distance Sensors The ODT3CL1-2M from Leuze electronic is a laser diffuse sensor that uses time-of-flight (ToF) technology to measure distances in applications such as automated guided vehicles for monitoring the...
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Corrosion and Weld Scanners The MapROVER™ (shown) and SteerROVER™ from Evident Corporation are phased array inspection solutions for weld and corrosion inspections. The MapROVER includes an electronic cooling system...
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Chip-on-Board Lights The CTM-18 and -22 from Luminus Devices are tunable chip-on-board (COB) lights that use color combination ranges from 6500 to 2700 K, 4000 to 1800 K, and high melanopic 5000 K Salud™ to 2200 K....
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Erbium Fiber Laser The ELMO 780 XHP from Menlo Systems is a high-power, industry-grade femtosecond erbium fiber laser that can be used in applications such as multi-photon microscopy and 3D nano printing. Delivering...
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Direct Time-of-Flight Lidar Device The VL53L9 from STMicroelectronics is a direct 3D lidar device that is suitable for applications such as VR or simultaneous localization and mapping. With a resolution of up to 2.3-k zones, the...
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Green Laser Lumispot Tech’s green laser is a fiber-coupled 525-nm laser made for applications including fluorescence excitation, spectral analysis, photoelectric detection, and laser display. Operational...
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Joulemeter The IS50A-1KW-RMT from Gentec-EO is a high-power joulemeter for laser energy measurement up to 1 kW average power. Designed to meet the requirements of high average power laser users in optics...
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Long-Range IR Camera The long-range model of the Mantis™ camera systems from LightPath Technologies utilizes LightPath's BlackDiamond™ infrared materials to create a camera system with high magnification that...
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3D AOI System The TR7700QH SII Series from Test Research, Inc. is a high-speed 3D automated optical inspection (AOI) system for metrology measurement applications. Using a stop-and-go imaging method, the system...
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Industrial Microscopy LED Ring The Model TR.L1 from Titan Tool Supply, Inc. is a specialized 16-LED ring illuminator designed for industrial microscopy applications, including modular toolscopes. With a robust aluminum...
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3D Measuring Device The FocusX from Bruker Alicona is an optical 3D measuring device meant for applications where highly reflective surfaces, steep flanks, and complex forms must be measured. Able to measure small...
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CO2 Focusing Lenses The line of ZnSe laser focusing lenses from Laser Research Optics was created to cut thick diamond plates and other heavy steel fabrications. The lenses come in 1- to 2.5-in. O.D. sizes with focal...
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Laser Spectrometer The TDLS8220 from Yokogawa Corporation of America is an extractive tunable diode laser spectrometer for extractive oxygen measurements where in-situ or probe-type installations are not applicable....
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Surface Plasmon Resonance System The Triceratops SPR#64 from Bruker is a surface plasmon resonance instrument for real-time, label-free biophysical characterization of molecular interactions in drug discovery. Via the perpendicular...
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PIN Photodiode The VEMD2704 from Vishay Intertechnology is a silicon PIN photodiode that can be used with green LEDs for optical heart rate detection and red LEDs for pulse oximetry applications. Coming in a 2.0 mm...
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High Resolution Multi-Camera The e-CAM200 CUOAGX from e-con Systems™ is a multi-camera based on the AR2020 sensor from onsemi's Hyperlux LP family for NVIDIA Jetson Orin platform that can be used for applications including...
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Laser Interferometer The Qualifire™ from Zygo Corporation is a laser interferometer designed to support metrology applications in industries such as semiconductor, lithography, space-borne imaging systems,...
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Microscope Optics The MO2X microscope optics from Optris GmbH are 2× magnification optics meant for use with Optris’ PI 640i infrared camera. Able to capture infrared images of complex structures, the...
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Replicated Freeform Mirrors The Newport™ Replicated Freefrom Mirrors from MKS Instruments are nonrotationally symmetric reflective mirrors for use in analytical instruments, imaging systems, laser tracking, and...
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Dual-Band Optical Fiber The LaserWave® Dual-Band OM4+ Multimode Optical Fiber from OFS is fiber optimized for bidirectional applications. The optical fiber offers OM5-equivalent performance at the 850-nm and 910-nm...
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Eye-Tracking Metalens Camera The metaEye™ from NIL Technology is an ultracompact metalens-based camera with applications for eye-tracking, smart locks, biometrics, simultaneous localization and mapping, and ubiquitous...
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