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Photonics.com Weekly: Rising from the Ashes (12/10/2015)

Photonics.com Weekly: Rising from the Ashes
It's one light source this industry would rather not deal with. Fire has affected four Northeast optics manufacturers in recent years, destroying inventory, machines and even entire buildings.
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Thursday, December 10, 2015
Optics Manufacturers Rebound after Fires
Optics Manufacturers Rebound after Fires It's one light source this industry would rather not deal with. Fire has affected four Northeast optics manufacturers in recent years, destroying inventory, machines and even entire buildings. Luckily no one was hurt. In the time since the fires, each of the companies has bounced back – and they have each other to thank. When disaster strikes, optics manufacturers band together to make sure their colleagues stay in business and that every last order gets filled.
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Hübner Acquires Cobolt, Expanding Test and Measurement, Process Control Business
The Hübner Group has acquired Cobolt AB, a supplier of lasers for analytical instrumentation applications based in Stockholm. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.
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Glass-to-Metal Firm LTI Acquires Ceramics Manufacturer Remtec
Remtec will remain an independent company operating under the existing management team at its present location in Norwood, Mass., which includes a 33,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Computer Chips Measured Using Optical Scatterfield Technique
Computer Chips Measured Using Optical Scatterfield Technique Using a microscope that combines standard through-the-lens viewing with scatterfield imaging techniques, researchers have accurately measured silicon wafer features 30 times smaller than the wavelength of light.
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Technique Sinters Thin Films at Lower Temps
Engineers at Oregon State University have discovered that previous approaches to photonic sintering were based on a flawed view of the basic physics involved, leading to gross overestimation of product quality and process efficiency.
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Faro Picks Former CEO Simon Raab as Interim Leader
Raab has served as chairman of the Faro board of directors since its inception in 1982. He was CEO from 1982 until January 2006, co-CEO from January to December 2006 and president from 1986 to 2004.
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Photonics Media's Weekly Newscast   To get the most out of solar panels, scientists are stretching and twisting them, dipping them in acid and even adding invisibility cloaks. Check out the latest ideas for harvesting the sun's energy this week on Light Matters!

 
Bridging Nanoparticles Creates Reversible Color Change for Displays
A method for building tiny "drawbridges" could allow engineers to use standard electrical switching techniques to construct color displays from pairs of nanoparticles that scatter different colors of light.
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Single Photons Separated from Light Pulses
Single Photons Separated from Light Pulses Separating single photons from pulses of light could enable eavesdropping on encrypted quantum communications — and it could also help make such channels more secure.
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Plasmons Enhance Detection of Wavefront Aberrations
The method detects wavefront aberrations indirectly by measuring changes in the reflectivity of gold films. It may be the first to use plasmons to address a classical optics problem, according to its developers at University College Dublin.
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