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Photonics Spectra - November 2024


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Advancements in High-Power Laser Diodes Fuel Essential Applications More than 30 years ago, acclaimed physicist Edward Teller said, “No one should use a laser unless it’s a diode laser.” Although those of us engaged in the manufacture of laser...
Optoelectronic Solutions Give Rise to Terahertz Sensing The terahertz portion of the electromagnetic spectrum refers to the frequencies between ~100 GHz and ~10 THz. This corresponds to wavelengths between 3 mm and 30 µm. Lying between the...
Embedded Vision Systems Usher Deep Learning into the Imaging Domain How would one decide which potato to select out of a group? Most people have an intuitive sense that guides them when selecting a spud, for example, at the market or from the garden, but it becomes...
Fourth-Generation Optics Surmount the Limitations of Planar Optics A micrometer-thin film coated over a flat glass substrate can deflect a light beam in the same way as a prism. This film can be fabricated to be structurally smooth, at a molecular level, and as...
Editorial
In lieu of a banner year, a watershed moment On Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2023, the clock started ticking on what would become a seismic 24-hour period. For those of us in North America, it began when we woke up to the news that Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier had been announced as winners of the Nobel Prize in physics. The trio’s award, in recognition of their advancements in attosecond pulse generation,...
Laser Safety
Laser Safety and the Cleanroom The commonly accepted definition of a cleanroom is a controlled environment that filters out pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, and aerosol particles to provide the cleanest area possible. Cleanrooms are grouped, or classified, by the number of particles allowed in the air per cubic meter. These work areas control additional variables, such as temperature, airflow, and humidity. The...
Technology News
Thermal Metasurface Controls and Creates a Light Source Optical metasurfaces offer the potential to shape and customize light for specific applications. But existing metasurfaces can only control laser light sources, and require bulky, expensive...
UV Lasers, Combs Provide High-Frequency Light for Nuclear Clock Nuclear clocks, which measure time by using the energy jumps within an atom’s nucleus, could improve timekeeping, navigation, and internet speeds, and could advance physics research. They have...
Electro-optical Tech Advancement to Boost Communications, Imaging Lightwave electronics is an emerging field that aims to integrate optical and electronic systems at incredibly high speeds. The key idea is to harness the electric field of light waves, which...
Quantum Effect Generates Different View of Alzheimer’s An exploration into quantum effects produced in nanoscale biological processes has the potential to upend traditional perceptions of the causes and effects of Alzheimer’s disease and other...
Micro-rings Make Green Gap Wavelengths Accessible for Tiny Lasers Compact, high-quality lasers that generate red and blue light have been available for years, but lasers that emit light at yellow and green wavelengths and are small enough to fit on a chip have been...
Perovskite Waveguides Offer Quantum, Integrated Device Capabilities The optical, lasing, and waveguiding capabilities of perovskite make this material a promising platform for integrated photonic circuits for classical and quantum signal processing. A research team...
Swiss Team Raises EUV Lithography Resolution to 5 nm Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have developed a photolithography technique to create denser circuit patterns. The current state-of-the-art microchips have conductive tracks...
Integrated Photonics Shrinks Down GPS-Free Navigation Tech Scientists are attempting to make a motion sensor so precise it could minimize the nation’s reliance on global positioning satellites. Until recently, a sensor of this caliber — a...
Industry News
Quantum Optics Jena Lands $9.4M in Funding Quantum technology startup Quantum Optics Jena (QOJ) has closed an €8.5 million (~$9.4 million) series A funding round. The funds will be used to fuel QOJ’s expansion and accelerate the...
SiLC Receives Honda Investment for AI Vision Development SiLC Technologies, Inc., a developer of frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidar-based vision solutions, has received an investment from Honda centered on the development of SiLC’s FMCW...
Mobileye to Shutter Lidar Development Mobileye, a developer of autonomous driving and driver assistance technology, has chosen to end the internal development of next-generation frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidars for use...
Soitec-Led Project Targets High-Frequency Semiconductors Move2THz, a European research and industry consortium led by Soitec, has commenced work to develop a future generation of high-frequency semiconductors based on indium phosphide (InP). The 27-member...
PsiQuantum to Open Quantum Computing Lab at Griffith University PsiQuantum, a developer of quantum computers, has partnered with Griffith University to open a Test & Characterization lab at the university’s campus in Nathan, Australia. This expansion...
Optica to Implement Changes Following Huawei Funding Inquiry Following the departure of now former CEO Elizabeth Rogan and head of the Optica Foundation Chad Stark, Optica said it plans to enact changes to processes and procedures related to the Optica...
Fujitsu to Open European All-Photonics Network Lab Fujitsu Limited, a technology company, plans to establish an open all-photonics network (APN) lab in Düsseldorf, Germany with the aim of popularizing APNs and promote the expansion of the...
IPG Photonics Sells Russian Operations IPG Photonics has sold its interest in its Russian subsidiary, IRE-Polus, in a sale that marks the finalization of the laser maker's exit from all facilities in Russia following imposed sanctions on...
VividQ Secures $7.5M to Commercialize Holographic Display Tech VividQ, a developer of computational holography display technology, has announced the completion of an additional $7.5 million in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total funding to over...
Mynaric Makes Leadership Position Changes, Cites Production Struggles Laser communications company Mynaric has terminated Mustafa Veziroglu as CEO and member of the company’s management board with immediate effect. Andreas Reif has been appointed as chief...
SPIE Elects Cather Simpson into Presidential Chain Cather Simpson, of the University of Auckland and Orbis Diagnostics, has been elected to serve as the 2025 vice president of SPIE. With her election, Simpson joins the SPIE presidential chain and...
LIS Technologies Closes $12M Seed Round Laser technology startup LIS Technologies said it has closed an expanded, oversubscribed $11.88 million seed funding round. The company plans to use the funds to advance the construction of a new...
LASER-TEC College Profile
Sussex County Community College Sussex County Community College (SCCC) has developed a quartet of programs aimed at providing students with the knowledge, training, and experience required to excel in the field of optics and photonics. Whether pursuing the two-year Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree or one of the three one-year certificate programs, graduates will learn from experts in the field while expanding their own...
Lighter Side
Watching as the sun sets on jet lag Air travel is not for everyone. Whether you’re afraid of heights, your wallet can’t cover the rising cost of a ticket, or you’re too tall to cram yourself into the ever-dwindling confines of a seat, there are many conceivable reasons as to why someone would forgo a trip in a flying aluminum can in favor of four-wheeled travel. For the brave souls who can look past all of the...
Products
SWIR Image Sensor The TES200 from TriEye is a SWIR image sensor designed for machine vision, robotics, biometrics, and automotive applications. The full-stack sensor operates in the 700- to 1650-nm wavelength range at...
TriEye Ltd.
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400G Spine Switch The DCS511 from Edgecore Networks is a 400G-optimized open network data center spine switch for data centers, service providers, and cloud operators. Powered by the Broadcom Tomahawk 4 chipset, the...
Edgecore Networks
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Fabry-Pérot Laser Diodes EXALOS’ 488-nm Fabry-Perot laser diodes (FP-LDs) are suited for fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, and spectroscopy applications. The laser diodes feature in-house epitaxial growth of...
Exalos AG
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Gas Sensor The Sunlight R290 from Senseair is a gas sensor for refrigerant leak detection in HVAC systems. The sensor uses non-dispersive infrared technology with LED light sources and photodiode sensors to...
SenseAir AB
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Quantum Measurement System The XLDHe High Power System from Bluefors Oy is a cryogen-free, helium-4 powered measurement system for applications such as spin qubit quantum computing devices or single photon detectors for...
Bluefors Oy
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Laser Diode Driver The Model 766A from Analog Modules, Inc. is a picosecond pulsed seed laser diode driver designed for driving Type 1, 14-pin butterfly packaged laser diode modules in materials processing, medical...
Analog Modules Inc.
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CW DFB Lasers Coherent’s high-efficiency continuous wave (CW) distributed feedback (DFB) lasers are engineered for silicon photonics transceiver modules in AI-driven data centers. The lasers are designed to...
Coherent Corp.
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Neutral-Density Attenuator The Model 801 from LASNIX is a neutral-density attenuator for broadly tuned lasers, nonlinear generation via ultrafast pulses, level setting for mode analysis and detector calibration, and in...
Lasnix
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Dual-Axis Stages The ZVR-60-60 Series from Optimal Engineering Systems are dual-axis lift and pitch stages for applications including laser pointing, laser milling and drilling, camera mounting, mirror alignment,...
Optimal Engineering Systems Inc.
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Dark-Field LED Platform The MR-Dark Field from TPL Vision is a modular illumination platform with dark field effect for surface inspection, defect detection, and edge detection applications. The remote-controlled platform...
TPL Vision UK Ltd.
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Portable Fiber Optics Cleaner The Sticklers Pro360°™ from Sticklers is a portable touchless fiber optic connector cleaner for applications such as central offices, data centers, OEM, military, and high-volume FTTx. The...
MicroCare Corp., Sticklers Fiber Optic Cleaners
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Remote Centralized Drivers The LumaDrive™ Pre-wired Systems series from Advanced Energy Industries are high-efficiency remote centralized drivers for large-scale horticultural, greenhouse, and industrial LED lighting...
Advanced Energy Industries Inc.
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Stereo Vision Camera The Ensenso B from IDS Imaging Development Systems is a 3D vision camera that can be used in industrial applications such as in pick-and-place and bin picking. The stereo vision camera is able to...
IDS Imaging Development Systems Inc.
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Fast Steering Mirror The S-335 from PI is a two-axis fast steering mirror for directing laser light or improving image resolution by correcting errors in a wavefront before it reaches an imaging sensor. The mirror is...
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
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Oscilloscopes The MXO series from Rohde & Schwarz are ASIC-based zone triggering oscilloscopes for testing and debugging applications. The oscilloscopes’ zone triggering can be used for triggering on...
Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
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Optical Transceiver Integra Optics’ 10G SFP+ transceiver has a reach of 120 km and is designed to deliver performance for metro ethernet transport and access networks, without the need for amplification. The...
Integra Optics
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Laser Soldering Unit The VersaSolder from nanosystec is a laser soldering unit for applications including attaching single-mode fibers to silicon photonic chips for quantum computing. The modular unit uses a laser system...
nanosystec GmbH
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Digital Fluorescence Microscope The Mateo FL from Leica Microsystems is an AI-powered digital fluorescence microscope for cell culture checks in research applications. The microscope combines transmitted light for label-free...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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SMT Pulsed Laser The SPL S8L91A_3 A01 from ams-OSRAM is an eight-channel SMT pulsed laser that can be used in long-range lidar systems for autonomous driving vehicles such as passenger cars, trucks, and robotic...
ams OSRAM
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Miniature Linear Voice Coil Motors The LVCM-016-019-01M and the LVCM-016-019-01 from Moticont are metric and imperial, respectively, linear brushless voice coil servo motors that can be used in applications such as assembly, testing,...
Moticont
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UV LED COB Modules The VC4X4 COB Modules from Violumas are UV LED COB modules for high dosage UVB/UVC LED applications such as disinfection, spectroscopy, and phototherapy. The modules are available in 265-nm, 275-nm,...
Violumas Inc.
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SiC Photodiodes The MTSM1057SMF2-046 and MT12-001 from Marktech Optoelectronics are SiC photodiodes for the detection of deep UVC wavelengths between 220 nm and 358 nm in applications such as surface sterilization,...
Marktech Optoelectronics Inc.
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Double Shutter Cameras The pco.edge 5.5 DS CLHS (shown) and pco.edge 26 DS CLHS from Excelitas Technologies are double shutter cameras for applications including particle image velocimetry, particle tracking velocimetry,...
Excelitas Technologies Corp.
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Semiconductor Metrology Device The Vista 300 from Molecular Vista Inc. is a nano infrared instrument that can be used in advanced semiconductor process monitoring and defect analysis. The instrument combines an atomic force...
Molecular Vista Inc.
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