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Photonics Spectra - October 2020
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As Displays Evolve, Lasers Offer New Bonding Options
The display industry has used anisotropic conductive film (ACF) for component packaging applications for decades. By aligning display parts precisely and applying heat and compression for the right...
Biological Systems Inspire Image Preprocessing Solutions
Data, as the saying goes, is king. But as any chess player knows, the king without his minions is hamstrung by limited mobility. The ubiquitous deployment of CMOS and CCD imagers across a range of...
New Tools Promise the Next Big Thing for Quantum Sensing
Sensors form an important foundation for many everyday devices, including microphones, CCD cameras, and touch sensors in smartphone displays. Moreover, sensors play a key role in technological...
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Drones Deliver a Fresh Take on Airborne Imaging Applications
Initially swooping in to provide aerial shots in big-budget movies, UAVs — or drones, in consumer parlance — are now bringing aerial cinematography technology to other applications. Drone-mounted...
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How Vision Systems Can Deliver More than the Sum of Their Parts
The use of both 3D-imaging technology and smart cameras is expanding the flexibility and capabilities of machine vision systems. Integrating these elements with advanced image preprocessing and...
Optical Frequency Combs Enhance Hyperspectral Imaging
An optical frequency comb is an optical source characterized by a spectrum consisting of evenly spaced frequency lines, known as teeth. This Nobel Prize-winning technology has become a reference tool...
Editorial
Light finds a way
Uncertainty is part of life in any year. But the uncertainties arising from 2020’s global pandemic have literally remapped daily life. In a climate of such ambiguity, our brains tend to seek patterns or milestones — a tendency I was reminded of recently as I began mapping out the first Photonics Spectra issues of 2021. The planning process forced me, for the first time in over half a year, to...
Tech Pulse
New One-step Fabrication Technique Yields Ultrathin Flat Lenses
An international team of researchers has developed a method of fabricating high-performance lenses in monolayer two-dimensional transitional metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) material using a femtosecond laser. The lens has a subwavelength resolution and a focusing efficiency of 31%, which marks a step closer to ultimately thin optical devices for use in nano-optics and on-chip photonic applications....
Cost-Effective Coatings for Smart Windows Rival Industry-Standard Performance
An inexpensive, ultrathin spray-on window coating for blocking heat and conducting electricity could further reduce energy costs for smart windows and heat-repelling glass, making smart window...
German Collaboration Improves Accuracy and Speed of Metal-cutting Lasers
Research collaborators from Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology (ILT), KOSTAL Kontakt Systeme GmbH, Amphos GmbH, and Pulsar Photonics GmbH have combined the precision and quality of helical...
SMILES Brighten Fluorescent Materials
A joint effort between researchers at Indiana University and the University of Copenhagen has yielded a new class of materials, called small-molecule ionic isolation lattices (SMILES), which the...
Laser Beam’s Behavior Runs Counter to Normal Laws of Refraction
A type of laser beam that does not follow the classical laws of refraction, discovered by a team at the University of Central Florida (UCF), could offer new opportunities for shaping the flow of...
Metasurface Added to Photonic Chip to Improve Footprint, Control
A team of researchers at Penn State has integrated metasurfaces onto a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip. The design maintains high light controllability, allowing guided waves inside the PIC to...
Researchers Turn Laser Sintering on Its Head
Selective laser sintering (SLS), a process that uses a laser to heat powder materials to the point where the micron-scale particles fuse together to form a solid mass, is one of the most widely used...
Photonic Crystal Generates VUV Light at Wavelengths Suitable for Spectroscopy
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a tabletop device that efficiently generates circularly polarized vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light using an ultrathin film with nanoscale...
Silicon CCD Camera Peers into Mid-Infrared
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine used the nonlinear optical properties of the silicon (Si) chip in a Si-based camera to enable a mid-infrared (MIR)-specific response in the camera....
Strain Engineering of 2D Materials Enables More Effortless Photodetection
Using a 2D material and an approach it calls “strainoptronics,” a George Washington University research team created a photodetector that can operate with high efficiency at the...
Photonic Processing Unit Supports Light-Speed Machine Learning
Substituting a photonic tensor core for existing digital processors such as GPUs, a pair of engineers from George Washington University (GWU) has introduced a new technique for performing high-level...
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Sheaumann Laser Expands, Relocates Operations
Sheaumann Laser Inc. has opened a new 57,800-sq-ft facility in Billerica, Massachusetts. The manufacturer of semiconductor lasers announced its expansion and relocation in July. Supported by a $2.34 million grant from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) and matching funds from the company, Sheaumann will increase both its workforce and production capabilities to meet...
NSF Grants $26M to Institutions to Establish Center for Quantum Networks
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding an initiative to establish the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) as part of its Engineering Research Center project. The five-year project will be led...
Company of Biologists, 'Journal of Cell Science' Launch FocalPlane
The Company of Biologists and Journal of Cell Science have created a web-based community resource for microscopists and biologists to share microscopy news, events, and resources. The site is free to...
SPIE, University of Glasgow Announce $1M Quantum Photonics Program
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and the University of Glasgow have announced the establishment of the SPIE Early Career Researcher Accelerator Fund in Quantum Photonics. The...
US DOE Reveals Blueprint to Spur Development of National Quantum Internet
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled a blueprint strategy for the development of a national quantum internet. In a July 23 press conference at the University of Chicago, DOE...
LASER-TEC College Profile
The Puerto Rico Photonics Institute
The Puerto Rico Photonics Institute (PRPI) is an initiative of the School of Science, Technology and Environment at the Universidad Ana G. Méndez (UAGM) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The institute is the only research and academic center in optics and photonics in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. It is dedicated to education and training, research, outreach, and workforce development for industries in...
Lighter Side
Mechanochromic, thermochromic, piezochromic … or just pretty
It took nature millions of years to develop the tiny scales that give butterfly wings — which are themselves transparent — their intense coloration. Like peacock feathers, they derive their signature hues from structures rather than pigments. Now, a team led by scientists at the University of Surrey and the University of Sussex in England has borrowed from nature’s bag of tricks to...
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