Wednesday, March 21, 2018
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Quarterly newsletter from Photonics Media highlighting the latest photonics news, features and products from Europe. Manage your Photonics Media membership at Photonics.com/subscribe.
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Imaging UAVs Move to the Forefront of Surveillance and Reconnaissance
With the U.S. and the U.K. deploying more troops overseas, and given the global increase in the frequency and lethality of terrorist attacks, it’s of little surprise that versatile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing a bigger role than ever before to tackle a new era of complex military issues.
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Continuously Variable Bandpass Filters Aid Optics and HSI
The development of optical continuously variable bandpass filters is presenting an alternative approach for hyperspectral imaging techniques, making it more appealing to volume markets. This can include cancer detection, precision farming with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or directly at the plant, and food testing in supermarkets.
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EuroPhotonics - Spring 2018
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Eight Bright Solid-State Light Sources
Lumencor Inc.
Lumencor’s new SPECTRA III Light Engine® is here, with
- Eight independent solid-state light sources
- Spectrally optimized DAPI, CFP, GFP, YFP, Cy3, mCherry, Cy5 and Cy7 excitation
- ~0.5W per output channel from a standard liquid light guide
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PC Controlled Variable Ratio Coupler
Evanescent Optics Inc.
The Model 905(P)-M is a variable ratio coupler. The coupling ratio can be manually adjusted or remotely adjusted with a PC (through a USB port). Available in SM non-PM and PM versions and wavelengths from 590nm to 2um. Standard coupling range 0-99% with other ranges available.
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FREDMPC
Photon Engineering LLC
Unleash your engineering creativity and inquisitive mind with FREDMPC. Predict performance with higher confidence by tracing orders of magnitude, more rays, through your system. Experiment by varying more parameters to find the optimum hardware configuration. Ask more " What if...?"
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New Revolutionary LIV Test Instrument
Yelo Limited
The LIV Test Instrument a revolutionary design by Yelo and is used for verify the operating characteristics of laser devices. The system performs accurate LIV, Spectrum and Farfield measurements via a touchscreen user interface, by simply plugging in the laser device to be tested.
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'Quantum Cocktail' Provides Insight Into Magnetic Storage
To speed up the writing and readout of magnetic information from storage devices, researchers are exploring the use of ultrashort laser pulses that can switch magnetic domains in solid-state materials. Although this route shows promise, the large number of magnetic materials interacting with one another has made this approach difficult to study.
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The first six hexagonal segments for the main mirror of the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope have been successfully cast by glass manufacturer Schott AG at its facility in Mainz.
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A breakthrough in rapid additive manufacturing that involves UV light solidifying the inks used could pave the way for fully functional 3D-printed electronic circuits. Researchers have pioneered the breakthrough and hope to produce functional components such as 3D antennae and fully printed sensors from multiple materials including metals and plastics.
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SCHOTT Solutions for InVitro Diagnostics
Light is not always simply light when it comes to clinical diagnoses, light is the key to prediction accuracy in analytical quality. Our solution: a flexible fiber optic multi-branch device with several light guides, which is fed from a LED light source. Our clou: a light source with long-term stability – one that delivers the same light in the required wavelength. SCHOTT is the only supplier worldwide offering a sensor technology that delivers online regulation over the entire lifetime without recalibrations.
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Coming in the Next Issue...
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Features
Virtual Reality; 3D Spectroscopy; Scientific Lasers
Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazine EuroPhotonics. Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Editor Justine Murphy at [email protected], or use our online submission form www.photonics.com/submitfeature.aspx.
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