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Photonics Spectra - September 2019
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Improved Lasers and Techniques Benefit Materials Processing
For laser materials processing systems, power levels are up, costs are down, and there are innovations in beam delivery and control. These developments are expanding the use of lasers in welding, cutting, surface treatment, and other applications. But there are still challenges to overcome, such as devising the best integrated solution or dealing with difficult materials. Several recent examples...
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Aspheric Optics for Nuclear Research
Nuclear research laser facilities around the world increasingly use powerful, amplified, ultrashort-duration pulses of coherent light to deliver massive energy densities at a given target. The...
Measuring Aspheres: Selecting 2D or 3D Metrology
As aspheres become more prevalent in optical systems and more companies design systems that include them, it is crucial that both designers and manufacturers understand what is needed and what the...
Ball Lenses for Telecom
With the explosion of high-bandwidth communications, fiber infrastructures are experiencing upgrades that demand improvements in both range and power at the lowest possible SWaP-C (size, weight,...
OLED Modules for Textile Integration
Flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) elements are destined for integration into textiles, and they promise to be an optimal technology for integrating light into clothing and other cloth...
Display Manufacturing Enriches Consumer Products
Consumer electronics are growing more sophisticated, at breakneck speed and with remarkable advancements in technology and refinement. A highly visible example is the ever-increasing picture clarity...
Demand for Versatile CMOS Sensors Continues to Grow
Twenty-five years ago, physicist and engineer Eric Fossum predicted the end of the charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging sensor. Fossum, a Dartmouth University professor who was then at NASA’s...
Editorial
Right here, right now
In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi casually asked the now-famous question, “But where is everybody?” while in a conversation about our vastly silent universe. The question of silence and the absence of detectable “alien” or nonhuman life despite the substantial number of stars, planets, and galaxies became known as the Fermi paradox. The big-picture science magazine...
Optics Special Section
Arizona Optics Valley
Founded in 1992, Optics Valley is the oldest optics, photonics, and astronomy cluster in the world. As part of the Arizona Technology Council, Optics Valley’s focus is on workforce development, the photonics ecosystem, and community and international awareness. John Dennis Working closely with the University of Arizona’s James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences and the Department of...
3 Questions with Susan Houde-Walter of LaserMaxDefense
Photonics Media recently spoke with Susan Houde-Walter, CEO of LaserMaxDefense (LMD). LMD is a laser manufacturer based in Rochester, N.Y., that specializes in diode and quantum cascade lasers....
Optics Anniversary: Online Certificate Program Turns 10
Ten years ago, the University of California, Irvine, Division of Continuing Education (UCI DCE) saw that the market was in need of skilled optical engineers and created a certificate program that...
3 Questions with Ulrike Fuchs of asphericon GmbH
Photonics Media recently got in touch with Ulrike Fuchs, who, as vice president of strategy and innovation, oversees all R&D topics at asphericon GmbH. Fuchs is known to like to mix things up and...
Global Photonics Alliance for Optics and Photonics Clusters
There are more than 40 optics and photonics clusters in the Americas, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Backing them is the Global Photonics Alliance, established as a forum for leaders of those clusters...
Women in Optics
The optics industry is a wide-ranging field, responsible for enabling much of our increasingly technology-focused society. Our industry powers the internet, makes the magic of cellphones possible,...
OSA Foundation: Supporting Women in Optics and Photonics
The OSA Foundation (OSAF) strives to elevate the profiles of women in optics and photonics and increase the percentage and total number of women participating in OSA and the broader field at all...
3 Questions with Zak Niazi of Circle Optics
Photonics Media met Zak Niazi, CEO of Circle Optics, at Light and Sound Interactive 2019, which took place in Rochester, N.Y., in June. Niazi showed off the capabilities of his 360° parallax-free...
Looking Back: A Lens Designer Remembers
Nearly 57 years ago, in 1962, I began work as an optical engineer with General Electric (GE) in Scranton, Pa. As an engineering technician, I worked with GE’s senior optical engineer, Don...
Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore
The Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore (OPSS) evolved from the SPIE Singapore Chapter that originally formed in 1994. In 2008, OPSS reorganized. Since then it has aimed to promote optics and...
3 Questions with Jennifer Kruschwitz of the University of Rochester
Photonics Media got in touch with Jennifer Kruschwitz, an optical coating engineer, color scientist, and assistant professor of optics at the University of Rochester who has run her own optics...
Tech Pulse
Low-Noise Avalanche Photodiode Could Advance Data Communications
A new development in semiconductor technology, leading to an ultrafast, highly sensitive avalanche photodiode (APD) with extremely low excessive noise, could improve data transmission rates and/or enable longer transmission distances. Cardiff University researchers, led by professor Diana Huffaker, partnered with researchers at the University of Sheffield and the University of California, Los...
Prototype Could be Used to Connect Quantum Computers
Physicists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) used a mechanical oscillator to produce entangled radiation. According to the research team, this is the first time a...
Washable Electronic Textiles Detect Electrocardiogram Signals
A transistor fiber for use in wearable electronics has been developed by researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). The transistor, which has the characteristics of a...
Scientists Shape Light to Travel Along a Single Branch
Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien Vienna) showed how the branched flow of light can be made to propagate along a single branch rather than along many branches at the same...
Scientists Look to Plants to Increase Solar Panel Efficiency
Taking notes from the light-harvesting protein complex of plants and certain bacteria, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University...
Superresolution Microscopy Platform Lets Researchers 'Step Inside' Data
A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) is working to combine two techniques to create a method, via a platform called ExMicroVR, that...
‘Self-Healing’ Coating Minimizes Lead Leakage from Perovskite Cells
Adding a protective layer of epoxy resin to the top of a perovskite solar cell (PSC) can significantly reduce the amount of lead that the cell discharges into the environment, researchers at Okinawa...
Researchers Synthesize Quasi-2D Gold Film
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) Center for Photonics and 2D Materials have synthesized a quasi-2D gold film, showing how materials not usually classified as...
Tiny Light Box Merges States of Light, Matter
A nanosize light box, built from stacked atomically thin material, has demonstrated the ability to capture and amplify light and link light to matter at the nanolevel. The light box, created by...
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Rochester’s Lin Receives National Presidential Award
Qiang Lin, an expert in integrated quantum photonics and nonlinear photonics at the University of Rochester, has been awarded the national Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers...
US Army Awards Northrop Grumman $17.6M to Upgrade Rangefinders
Northrop Grumman Corp. has received a $17.6 million award from the U.S. Army to upgrade the Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder 2H (LLDR 2H), which will be retrofitted with high-accuracy sensors.
ams, MEGVII to Offer 3D Face-Recognition Solutions
High-performance sensor supplier ams AG and artificial intelligence developer MEGVII have signed a partnership agreement to jointly create and promote plug-and-play 3D face recognition solutions for...
Spectral Evolution Moves to Expanded Facilities
Spectral Evolution has moved operations to expanded facilities in Haverhill, Mass., to provide more space for engineering, test, and manufacturing. Established in 2004, Spectral Evolution is a...
Rofin-Sinar UK Rebrands as Luxinar
Industrial laser company Rofin-Sinar UK has rebranded as Luxinar Ltd., effective June 25, marking a new chapter in the company’s 20-year history.
Cisco to Acquire Optical Interconnect Giant Acacia for $2.6 B
Cisco has agreed to pay $2.6 billion to acquire Acacia Communications, a developer, manufacturer, and seller of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products, to allow growth in Cisco’s...
TOPTICA Photonics Opens Facilities in China
Laser developer and producer TOPTICA has expanded into China with a head office in Shanghai and a branch in Beijing to provide sales, service, and application support for its full range of...
European Photonics Project Attracts Girls to STEM Careers
A European photonics research consortium gave girls and young women in 10 countries the opportunity to explore STEM careers over a one-year period through a series of workshops and challenges...
SPIE to Acquire Photonex
The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) has agreed to purchase Xmark Media, trade show organizer of key photonics exhibitions and conferences in the U.K. The purchase includes...
Precision Optical Recognized
Optical manufacturer Precision Optical has been recognized as a small business that made a significant contribution to Lockheed Martin's missiles and fire control business area in 2018. Precision...
Lighter Side
BG: Before GoPro
Right now, you can go onto YouTube and watch famed Formula One driver Lucas di Grassi clip a GoPro into a commercially available mount and race around the track. In the ’60s, however, things were a little different. To get first-person race footage, Jackie Stewart had to strap an entire rotary lens camera to one side of his helmet and a sizeable battery pack to the other. The helmet cameras...
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The LuxX.HSA series of diode lasers from Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH feature ultra-fast analog modulation up to 150 MHz, digital modulation of >250 MHz, and an electronic shutter with full...
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Nanoparticle Analyzer
The ZetaView QUATT nanoparticle analyzer from Analytik Ltd. features a multiwavelength video tracking microscope for the rapid analysis of size, concentration, fluorescence, electrophoretic mobility,...
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Telecentric Lens
The V-Series TEC-V0345165MPY-WI Telecentric Lens from Computar is a 1.1-in. device with 0.345× magnification. Compatible with up to 12-MP sensors on 1.1-in. cameras, the lens is a...
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Portable Spectrometer Device
The GoSpectro device from GoyaLab transforms a smartphone or a tablet into a portable spectrometer. The device is compact, easy to use, connected, and affordable. It is sensitive over the...
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4-CMOS Prism Design
The EoSens 1.1 CXP from Mikrotron GmbH is a 1-MP camera featuring CMOS sensor technology and the CoaXPress 1.1 interface. With ultra-fast frame rates of 2050 fps at full 1280 × 864-pixel...
Mikrotron GmbH
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Xenon-Topaz C-Mount Lens
The 6.5-mm Xenon-Topaz C-mount compact lens series from Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH features wide angles with a 17.6-mm image circle. Designed for cameras with 1.1-in. sensors, the...
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Testing System
Telops’ TESTD systems series from SphereOptics GmbH offers nondestructive testing solutions for the evaluation of components or assemblies in order to detect defects without damaging the...
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Polymer Laser Welding System
The ExactWeld 230 P from Coherent Inc. enables particle-free high throughput welding of small- to medium-sized polymer parts. The system combines a diode laser, servo-controlled clamping, and...
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Physical Optics Software
VirtualLab Fusion software from LightTrans GmbH is a fast physical optics program that provides improved solutions in lightguide modeling, augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) glass design,...
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Compact Polygon Scanner
The Gecko-5-HP1 from Precision Laser Scanning LLC is a compact polygon scanner designed for high-power laser cleaning. The device’s solid aluminum polygon features excellent heat...
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