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Thursday, February 5, 2015
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A light beam can be structured so that its polarization twists around like a Mobius strip, an example of the rich structure that light beams can possess at subwavelength distance scales.
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In Memoriam: Charles Hard Townes
Dr. Charles Hard Townes, whose work on stimulated emission led to the creation of lasers and enabled the photonics industry, died Jan. 27 at age 99.
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3 Finalists Vie for National Integrated Photonics Institute
Three consortia led by the universities of Central Florida, Southern California and New York have been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to submit full proposals for creating a $220 million Integrated Photonics Institute for Manufacturing Innovation.
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Custom Optical
Windows
Sydor Optics, Inc.
Sydor Optics has extensive experience in double-sided grinding and polishing of custom optical windows for IR and UV applications in the industrial, medical, research and defense industries.
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InGaAs Photodiodes
Fermionics Opto-Technology
Fermionics Opto-Technology manufactures InGaAs photodiodes for data, voice and video communications, and large area photodiodes for instrumentation and sensing applications.
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Short Coherence Laser Interferometer
4D Technology Corp.
The new AccuFiz short coherence laser interferometer includes a second, external, short coherence laser source that lets you isolate and measure plane parallel optical surfaces.
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Brillouin scattering-induced transparency (BSIT) permits light to travel in one direction along the fiber while light traveling in the other direction is strongly absorbed.
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In this edition of the industry's premier weekly newscast: A look at a new microscopy technique that makes tissue samples larger, as well as a new paradigm for image sensors. Also, a preview of the Prism Awards and Photonics West, and an appreciation of laser pioneer Charles Hard Townes.
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Passing photons through an optical mask can give them a transverse spatial structure that reduces their speed.
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JPK Opens Expanded Headquarters in Berlin
Citing growing demand for its nanoanalytics products, JPK Instruments has moved into an expanded suite of offices and laboratories with increased manufacturing space.
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Photonics West - Feb. 10-12, 2015 · The Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif.
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21,000 attendees, two exhibitions, 1250 exhibiting companies, and 4700 papers on biomedical optics, biophotonics, translational research, industrial lasers, 3-D printing, optoelectronics, microfabrication, MOEMS-MEMS, displays and more.
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CALLING ALL BIOPHOTONICS INNOVATORS!
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Photonics Media is seeking presenters for “Biophotonic Imaging for Medicine,” a free digital conference to be held June 11. We invite presentations from researchers, clinicians and engineers working at the graduate, doctoral and professional levels. Topics of interest include light-sheet microscopy, optical coherence tomography, photoacoustics, computational imaging and more. Visit www.photonics.com/bioconference to find out more and submit an abstract.
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FEATURED VIDEO
TRIOPTICS GmbH – ATS 200
The ATS 200 is the first compact and highly stable turning lathe with full integration of TRIOPTICS' proven centration measurement technology OptiCentric®. It is the system with the widest range of applications in its class: It machines lenses with up to 200mm of diameter and 5kg weight whether it is an aspherical, spherical or infrared lens.
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