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Microscale plastic honeycomb structures can make light beams turn on a dime, a development that could allow more optical relays to be packed onto photonic integrated chips.
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Marines Award Elbit $73.4M Contract for Laser Rangefinders
The Common Laser Range Finder-Integrated Capability (CLRF-IC) replaces the Marines’ current equipment with a system that allows accurate target location in a variety of conditions, including magnetically disturbed environments, areas with overhead clutter and in GPS-denied situations.
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EXtreme Imaging Products
Stanford Photonics
Stanford Photonics, Inc. designs and manufactures digital ICCD/ICMOS/CCD cameras for advanced imaging applications in the life sciences, commercial and military surveillance markets.
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Laser Safety
Portable Barriers
Kentek Corp.
Kentek’s portable barriers are an alternative to laser safety curtain systems and are available in Flex-Guard™, Ever-Guard® and laser-safe acrylic materials. Use our Light Blockers hinges to connect together an unlimited number of partitions.
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Wide Range of
sCMOS Cameras
PCO-TECH Inc.
With the addition of two new models, PCO now provides eight sCMOS-cameras, one for almost every application. The new pco.edge 3.1 and pco.edge 4.2LT have become our new entry-level cameras.
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Graded Reflectivity Mirrors
BMV Optical
Graded Reflectivity Mirrors (GRM) are used as cavity optics within unstable laser resonators. These mirrors are often used with Nd:YAG (1064nm) lasers, but can also be designed for use in other laser systems.
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Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have developed an adhesive film that, when stretched, reflects near-infrared light. Future versions of the technology that reflect a broader part of the IR spectrum could be worn by soldiers hoping to avoid detection by enemy thermal cameras.
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Natcore, Eurotron Partner on HIT Solar Cells
Natcore recently announced that it had produced an all-back-contact silicon heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) solar cell using proprietary laser technology. The company said the technique increases cell efficiency and could allow low-cost, environmentally friendlier production.
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DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS APPROACHING!
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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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Pairing of Silicon, Perovskite Promising for Solar Efficiency
The prototype’s a 13.7 percent power-conversion efficiency still leaves much to be desired. But in this first step the researchers overcame problems around pairing silicon with perovskite that could enable efficiencies greater than the peak 25.6 percent of standard silicon cells.
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A gene construct that reacts to blue light could offer a drug-free remedy for men with erectile dysfunction.
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SPIE Optics & Optoelectronics is a meeting that highlights the technologies that drive Europe’s largest optoelectronic infrastructure projects, such as HiPER, HiLASE, ELI Beamlines, plus conferences and workshops on laser acceleration, free-electron lasers, x-ray and extreme UV optics, nonlinear optics and more.
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FEATURED VIDEO
Renishaw – Innovative Encoder Systems
Renishaw’s Corrie Fearon and Sandeep Raja discuss the innovative encoder systems: RESOLUTE™ - absolute optical linear and absolute optical rotary (angle) encoder system (www.renishaw.com/resolute) and ATOM™ - optical incremental miniature encoder system (www.renishaw.com/atom). Learn more about unrivalled metrology performance from Renishaw at www.renishaw.com.
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