Photonics Spectra Monthly — Laser Welding for E-Mobility Manufacturing, Applications for Metamaterials, and more. (1/13/2022)

PerkinElmer
Spotlight™ IR microscope systems are designed to meet the challenges of an expanding laboratory by generating high-quality, reproducible data from a variety of sample types. The Spotlight 400 FT-IR Imaging System combines high sensitivity and rapid imaging with ease-of-use.

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics
Nanometer precision, high dynamics, long travel, maintenance-free voice coil motor, and ultrafast step and settle piezo flexure motor provide the solution for fast focusing and scanning tasks in semiconductor metrology, microscopy, life sciences, and slide scanning applications.

AdlOptica GmbH
Lossless laser beam shaping by splitting multi-kW laser energy into 3×3 matrix of spots with variable intensity for welding, cladding with TEM00, or multimode lasers. Optimizing heating of the processed area in order to reduce spatter and bubbles, thereby stabilizing the technology.

Mahr Inc.
Smaller diameters in micro-lenses presents several technical challenges for metrology instruments. Steep flanks at the edges of the lenses can cause data drop-out. Fast measurement times and high performance requirements are needed.

iXblue, Photonics
iXblue offers a wide range of Er/Yb codoped optical fibers for high-power CW or pulsed fiber amplifiers and lasers. They have been optimized to address the specific requirements of high efficiency and low noise for high-power fiber lasers & amplifiers, with applications in LIDAR, CATV, & space.

Materion Balzers Optics
Materion Balzers Optics has coating techniques for MEMS wafers, depositing a wide range of UV, optical, and visible coatings patterned by photolithography. Our 200 mm wafer fabrication can provide many of the operations required for fabrication on glass or silicon.

GPD Optoelectronics Corp.
GPD Optoelectronics offers Ge and InGaAs position sensing detectors for near-infrared beam alignment and tracking applications. Standard or high-speed InGaAs quadrant detectors and our lateral-effect position sensors with chip sizes up to 1 cm offer flexibility and precision.

Solid State Cooling Systems
Thermoelectric recirculating chillers for precise (±0.05°C) temperature control of lasers, optics and other applications, offering 230 watts to 460 watts of cooling capacity in a compact size with long-life reliability and many standard features.

Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components
When you need true high-performance imaging, turn to the Falcon4-CLHS. Using Teledyne’s advanced CMOS architectures, the Falcon4-CLHS offers unique, unprecedented capabilities for large area, high resolution, high speed imaging. Models include 11.2M at 609 fps and 86M at 16 fps, both with a Camera Link HS.

Opto-Alignment Technology Inc.
Newly enhanced QuickPRO-CUBE-MINI features rapid, dual-sided QA/PC of molded, aspherical, and free-form optics. Takt time of 1 to 2 minutes for both surfaces. Wide range of fixtures and inserts are available to accommodate single-element samples as well as micro-lens arrays.

Highland Technology Inc.
The T130 is a USB/RS-232 enabled pulse generator suitable for driving LiNbO3 Mach-Zehnder and similar electro-optical devices. It has a built-in edge-triggered width generator that is adjustable for delay and width, spanning 250 picoseconds to 300 nanoseconds across three ranges.

Lambda Research Corp.
TracePro^® is software for the design and analysis of optical and illumination systems. You can simulate and virtually prototype many types of devices and systems. TracePro simulates and optimizes light pipes, light guides, and nonimaging lenses and mirrors.

NYFORS Teknologi AB
The NYFORS SMARTSPLICER offers CO2 laser glass-processing capabilities designed to produce high-power and sensitive photonic components and complex structures. It offers contamination-free fiber array splicing, ball lensing, end-capping, and many other challenging processes.

Kinetic Systems Inc.
Designed to isolate sensitive instruments and experiments up to 1300 lbs., the 9100 can be customized by adding a variety of work surfaces and accessories. Providing both vertical and horizontal isolation and supported by a VibraDamped steel frame with an Active-Air suspension...

Alluxa
Alluxa Ultra Series Filters, including Narrowband, Dichroic, UV, IR, and Notch filters, provide the highest performance optical thin film solutions available today. For example, the Ultra Series Flat Top Narrowband filters offer the narrowest bandwidths and squarest filter profiles in the industry.

AFL
AFL’s LAZERMaster^® LZM-125 Series is a splicing and glass processing system that features a CO2 laser heat source designed for splicing, tapering, lensing, ablation and other glass shaping operations of fibers ranging from 80 μm up to 2.0 mm in diameter.

SUSS MicroOptics SA
SUSS MicroOptics is a global leader in micro-optics technology and manufacturing. Innovative combination of process technology has allowed SUSS MicroOptics to integrate micro-lenses and prisms on wafer scale. In combination with the comprehensive offering of AR coating, metallization, and glue management options...

Spectrum Scientific Inc. (SSI)
Spectrum Scientific’s (SSI) hollow retroreflectors are manufactured from solid aluminum, making them insensitive to vibration and positioning. Our replication process allows for a high-volume repeatable performance down to <2 arcsec return beam accuracy.

Heidenhain Corporation
New multidimensional technology from HEIDENHAIN. Encoders that measure up to six degrees of freedom! The additional feedback from their multidimensional technology results in far greater measurement accuracy, letting you detect and compensate for system-relevant positional error in multiple dimensions.

Photonics Media
This full-color, 30 × 20.5-inch poster of the photonics spectrum displays the major commercial laser lines, detectors and optical materials in the ultraviolet to the far-infrared and beyond. The chart was updated in 2021 to reflect the changing technologies in the photonics industry.