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Photonics Spectra - November 2022


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Tiny Quantum Dot Sensors Solve Big IR Application Problems As a second quantum revolution begins, many mysteries remain in the quantum realm. Perhaps this is unsurprising given the notoriously confounding properties of this new frontier. However, as time passes, it seems increasingly likely that the development of new technological advancements and applications depends on understanding these mysteries. For example, quantum technology could enable a...
New Sensors and AI Optimize Laser Welding Welding is an ancient technology. Five thousand years ago, Egyptians used it to join copper water pipes together. Over the centuries it evolved into an essential technology to fuse various types of...
Increased Component Density Plants Hurdles on the Road to Scaling the Production of PICs When CEO Iñigo Artundo’s company began providing engineering solutions for photonic integration in 2011, the typical photonic integrated circuit (PIC) had five to 10 components. Today,...
Editorial
Wants, needs, and what lies between This is not the first time the global photonics industry has confronted supply chain disruptions, nor will it be the last. But the current wave of chaos might well be remembered among the worst and most persistent. It has affected the flow of many products along the photonics value chain, from neon gas to optical slurries, and it arises from a mind-bendingly complex web of factors that encompass...
Technology News
Metasurfaces Open Up Research Paths For Quantum State Engineering Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, in cooperation with Sandia National Laboratories, have pioneered...
Rare-Earth Elements Offer Stable Multiband Microlasing Platform A recent demonstration by a team at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) spotlights the possibility of stable multiband lasing by rare-earth elements. In the work, the research team...
Tiny IR Spectrometer Improves Sensitivity, Speed of Liquid Analysis Analytical chemistry often requires the accurate measurement of concentration changes of substances in liquids, on a timescale of seconds. Particularly in the pharmaceutical industry, such...
Researchers Design Highly Sensitive, Mass-producible Organic Photodetectors Newly developed green-light absorbing transparent organic photodetectors have been demonstrated to be highly sensitive and compatible with CMOS fabrication techniques. Incorporating these...
Imaging Method Reveals Obscured Objects to Make Autonomous Mobility Safer The advent of autonomous vehicles, advanced spacecraft, and other technologies that rely on sensors for navigation has created a need for advanced technologies that can scan for obstacles,...
Frequency Converters Take Big Step Toward Miniaturizing Lasers Researchers from Columbia University and Politecnico di Milano used an atomically thin material to build microscopic color converters. The advancement is a first step toward replacing the standard...
NASA Aims to Deploy Terahertz Laser to Help Resolve Lunar Water Mystery Locating water and other resources on Earth’s moon and beyond in our solar system is a NASA priority crucial to exploring our solar system and beyond. Previous experiments inferred and then...
14 Entangled Photons Dispel Quantum Computing Bottleneck Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics developed a method that could facilitate the construction of powerful and robust quantum computers, as well as the secure transmission of...
All-Fiber-based Approach Could Expand Applications of Bessel Beam A team at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) demonstrated an all-fiber-based approach to generating Bessel beams that could be useful for applications ranging from optical...
Hollow-Core Fibers Enable Precise Positioning in Space A consortium led by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (Fraunhofer IZM) is using hollow-core optical fibers to develop a reliable method to transmit light to...
Industry News
SPIE Summit Convenes Photonics Industry, Government Leaders Photonics industry leaders converged with government officials and policymakers in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 21 to attend SPIE’s inaugural Photonics Industry Summit, an event that SPIE aims to...
Webb’s Exoplanet Observations Demonstrate Telescope's Strengths NASA’s James Webb Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside out solar system, shortly after taking its first image of an...
Hamamatsu, Fraunhofer Develop Joint Application Lab Together with Hamamatsu, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (Fraunhofer ILT) launched an application lab for advanced laser material processing with ultrashort pulsed (USP) laser...
SPIE Reports that 2020 Optics, Photonics Industry Revenues Exceeded $300B SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, released its biennial industry report Tuesday during Optics + Photonics 2022 in San Diego. The most notable of the report’s multiple...
Olympus Sells Scientific Solutions Business to Bain Capital Olympus is selling its wholly owned subsidiary EVIDENT Co. Ltd. to Bain Capital. The divestment, which is reportedly worth over $3 billion, will see all shares of EVIDENT transferred to Bain Capital...
AEye, Booz Allen Hamilton Partner on Software-Defined Lidar Lidar technology company AEye partnered with digital system integrator and data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) company Booz Allen Hamilton to productize and drive adoption of AEye’s...
DARPA Funds the Development of Low-Noise Photonic Oscillators The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded BAE Systems a $17.5 million contract for the Generating RF with Photonic Oscillators for Low Noise (GRYPHON) program. The technology...
SPIE Elects de Groot into its Presidential Chain Peter de Groot, chief scientist at Zygo Corp., was elected to serve as the 2023 vice president of SPIE. The election brings de Groot into the SPIE presidential chain. He will serve as president-elect...
LASER-TEC College Profile
Pasadena City College Pasadena City College (PCC) established a curriculum in laser technology (LaserTech) to provide students with the skills required to work with precision optics, lasers, detectors, electronics, and nanotechnology. Local industry and national laboratories have supported the creation of these courses to ensure that students learn the relevant modern laboratory techniques and technologies. Local...
Lighter Side
Lasers fry roaches on the fly Roaches are notoriously hard to eradicate. Their ability to endure has made them emblematic of the last vestige of life that will survive an apocalyptic nuclear exchange. Humans, who like to be upstaged by insects even less than they enjoy finding them in the pantry, can therefore be excused for taking roach eradication to irrational and even dangerous extremes. Our species, for example, has long...
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Line-Scan System Chromasens GmbH has launched a machine vision system that detects cosmetic defects on silicon semiconductor wafers. Based on line scan technology, the Chromasens system consists of Chromasens...
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Laser Line Mirrors TECHSPEC® Dual Band Laser Line Mirrors from Edmund Optics Inc. offer 99% reflectivity at both IR and visible wavelengths. Options are available for 532-nm or 635- to 670-nm guide beams....
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Thin-film Polarizers Thin-film Polarizers from Knight Optical Ltd. are coated with dielectric multilayers. Featuring high efficiency due to negligible absorbance within the coating, the polarizers are available for...
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Wafer Z Stage The WP-Z-120A Wafer Stage from Queensgate features ms response times and high bandwidth for positioning in high-throughput applications. The wafer stage is designed to hold 300-mm wafers,...
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Radiation-tolerant Lenses Resolve Optics Ltd. has announced 1080p, high-definition resolution lenses optimized for a new generation of radiation hard CMOS cameras. The devices produce clear, sharp images free of yellow...
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Industrial Microscope Objectives MXPLFLN series industrial microscopy objectives from Evident Scientific combine a high numerical aperture and long working distance for flexibility in various inspection applications. Designed...
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C-band Tunable Laser The OE4040 series of Hi-Q® ultralow-noise C-band lasers from OEwaves Inc. features whispering gallery mode resonator (WGMR) technology and micro-optic assemblies. The frequency noise of a...
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Micro-LED Devices MICLEDI Microdisplays BV has announced microLED devices with integrated micro-lenses for pixel level beam shaping, manufactured in a 300-mm manufacturing flow. The devices provide improved...
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Emission Line Filters Two Hydrogen Alpha (H-alpha) Emission Line Filters for astronomy applications have been announced by Alluxa Inc. The Five-cavity H-alpha Filter has a 50% B+W of 0.35 nm, a 1% B+W of <0.6 nm,...
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Optical Spectrum Analyzers The AQ6375E and AQ6376E optical spectrum analyzers from Yokogawa Europe BV, Test & Measurement combine short- and mid-wavelength IR with extreme optical precision to aid in the development of...
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