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Photonics Spectra Monthly: Sensors for Laser Welding, Navigating 3D Imaging Options, and more
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Monthly newsletter from the editors of Photonics Spectra, with features, popular topics, new products, and what's coming in the next issue. Manage your Photonics Media membership at Photonics.com/subscribe.
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Navigating the Options for 3D Imaging
While 3D imaging in machine vision has been applied in key use cases for many years, use of the technology has recently grown and expanded, making it increasingly common in a wider range of applications. The best practices that can help to ensure a successful 3D imaging project involve component specification and project implementation. However, it’s important to start with an overview of 3D imaging and a review of the methodologies available in the marketplace.
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New Sensors and AI Optimize Laser Welding
Welding is an ancient technology. Five thousand years ago, Egyptians used it to join copper water pipes together. Over the centuries it evolved into an essential technology to fuse various types of metals as experienced welders learned to optimize the process by observing and reacting to colors in the material and the flames. Welding technology has made more progress in the last 50 years than it did in the preceding millennia. A crucial part of this development relies on optical sensing of process parameters far beyond what our eyes can perceive.
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Tiny Quantum Dot Sensors Solve Big IR Application Problems
As a second quantum revolution begins, many mysteries remain in the quantum realm. Perhaps this is unsurprising given the notoriously confounding properties of this new frontier. However, as time passes, it seems increasingly likely that the development of new technological advancements and applications depends on understanding these mysteries.
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Norland Optical Splice
Norland Products Inc. Norland’s optical splice provides a high-performance connection for optic fibers in a unique one-piece design.
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IR Filters for Thermal Imaging
Spectrogon US Inc. Spectrogon manufactures infrared filters and windows with high transmission, high rejection outside the passband, while maintaining excellent coating uniformity for thermal imaging and gas detection applications such as cryogenically cooled IR detectors and uncooled microbolometers. Our filters and windows range in dimension from Ø6.0 to Ø200.0 mm with dicing capabilities down to as small as 1.0 × 1.0 mm.
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SL160 Slide Loader
Prior Scientific Inc. The SL160 automated microscope slide loader combines reliability and high capacity with easy set up to provide automated slide scanning to a wide variety of existing upright microscopes or with the use of Prior’s OpenStand microscope.
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Compact focus for NGS instruments
New Scale Technologies Inc. Embed M3-F Focus Modules in Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) instruments for precise laser spot size and imaging volume. Optimize excitation and detection in channels/nanowells. High repeatability and accuracy, no thermal drift. Built-in 3.3V controller (I2C or SPI) minimizes size and time to market.
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Adaptive Optics Elevates Ground-Based Telescopes’ Image Quality
After starlight enters the atmosphere, it passes through layers of turbulence that grant the light a twinkling or flickering effect when viewed from Earth. This turbulence also affects the quality of images taken with ground telescopes. This effect can be mitigated with adaptive optics, which serve to correct the distortion caused by atmospheric turbulence.
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Researchers at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) developed a transparent protective coating material that can self-heal in 30 minutes when exposed to sunlight.
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Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology, in collaboration with colleagues from Fraunhofer ISIT and IST, developed a CMOS-compatible deposition and laser crystallization process for the production of micro-electromechanical systems. In contrast to other common processes, the method eliminates the need for wires and solder joints — an advantage that can significantly reduce the component size and enhance the sensor performance.
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Introduction to Display Metrology: Evaluating the Quality of Displays Using Scientific Systems and Methods
Thu, Nov 17, 2022 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
Using scientific methods and equipment, display metrology solutions capture and assess the quantitative values of a display’s output to evaluate its visual quality and performance. Jessy Hosken of Radiant Vision Systems shares the science behind display testing, including measurement equipment and techniques used by manufacturers throughout labs and production lines to ensure high-quality display products from microLED to AR/VR devices. Presented by Radiant Vision Systems.
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Features
Optical Materials, Photoacoustic Imaging, sCMOS for XUV and Soft X-Ray, Materials Science: Fused Silica
Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazine Photonics Spectra. Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Daniel McCarthy, Senior Editor, at [email protected], or use our online submission form www.photonics.com/submitfeature.aspx.
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