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Photonics Spectra Monthly — Quantum Internet, Ultrafast Lasers, Optical Workforce, and more… (8/9/2023)

Photonics Spectra Monthly — Quantum Internet, Ultrafast Lasers, Optical Workforce, and more…

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

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.

Ultrafast Laser Technology Continues to Achieve New Peaks
Ultrashort pulse lasers, such as femtosecond lasers, are becoming increasingly easy-to-use plug and play devices suitable for a wide range of industrial and biomedical applications. Fifteen years ago, these lasers were large mainframe affairs requiring daily cleaning of the optics, regular maintenance of water for cooling, and constant optimization of laser parameters.

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Optical Workforce Training Comes into Focus
Ten years ago, Tony Amarel’s recruitment firm in Rochester, New York, rarely heard from clients who were willing to pay a fee to fill optical technician positions. But by 2021, the six-county Rochester metropolitan area saw the number of jobs in its local optical equipment and lens manufacturing sector increase by 12.5% to 1293 — more than double the national average growth rate of 5.7%, according to employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and New York State Department of Labor.

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What Is the Quantum Internet?
The internet is an inescapable part of modern life, and the hardware that enables it is almost as ubiquitous. Fiber cables transmit terabytes of data around the world every second and, although the technology is constantly evolving, it has become almost commonplace. The growing interest and investment in quantum technology, however, promises to enable an evolutionary leap in internet technology. But will this quantum internet replace or build upon the current internet? Will it emerge anytime soon? And what might it look like?

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.: Featured Products & Services

TracePro 2022.6

Lambda Research Corporation
Lambda Research Corp. is proud to announce the release of TracePro 2022.6, the latest release of its award-winning TracePro optical design and analysis program. TracePro is intuitive and easy to use in a wide variety of applications including illumination, display design, stray light analysis, biomedical, aerospace, and many others.

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Precision-Imaged Components

Applied Image Inc.
Precision-imaged optical components, calibration standards, and photomasks for various industries and applications. Standard and custom products to test, calibrate, align, control, or measure the performance of imaging systems or as OEM components within imaging, inspection, or measurement systems.

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405- to 640-nm PM Fibers

Coastal Connections
Red, green, blue polarization-maintaining fibers are used in quantum computers, medical diagnostics, Raman spectroscopy, and many research applications. Coastal Connections’ silica and hollow-core RGB fiber cables maintain high PER and have low mating losses and low return loss. Furthermore, the NA of the fibers can be measured at different wavelengths, allowing for proper focusing and collimation.

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Complementary Pulse Outputs

Highland Technology Inc.
Rise and fall times under 100 picoseconds and two ranges of programmable delay and pulse widths make the single channel externally triggered T240 ideal for driving seed lasers in pumped fiber systems and RF applications, including fast-pulse modulation, phase shifting, and harmonic generation. Other applications include time-domain characterization and modeling, semiconductor test, and system cable/timing trims.

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.: In Case You Missed It

Researchers Demonstrate Visible Wavelength Femtosecond Fiber Laser
Researchers from Laval University reported the development of the first fiber laser that can produce femtosecond pulses in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Fiber lasers producing ultrashort, bright visible-wavelength pulses could be useful for a variety of biomedical applications as well as materials processing.

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CEA-Leti and Intel Report on Hybrid Direct-Bonding Self-Assembly Process

CEA-Leti and Intel have optimized a hybrid direct-bonding, self-assembly process that increases alignment accuracy as well as fabrication throughput by several thousand dies per hour. The approach uses capillary forces of a water droplet to align dies on a target wafer.

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Photonic Chip Transforms a Single Beam of Light into Multiple Beams

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have devised a photonic circuit on a chip that transforms a single incoming beam of laser light into a panoply of new beams, each with a host of different optical properties.

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.: Upcoming Webinars

Advanced Packaging for Integrated Photonics: From Research to Manufacturing
Tue, Aug 29, 2023 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Advanced packaging enables researchers to combine different technology platforms such as photonics, electronics, micro-electromechanical, and fluidics to address a vast array of exciting applications. Professor Peter O’Brien presents the packaging capabilities established by his research team at the Tyndall Institute, including details about the group's diverse range of research projects in areas such as telecommunications, quantum, and medical devices. The webinar outlines how these advanced packaging processes can be transferred to early-stage manufacturing through the group's leadership of the European Pilot Line, and discusses recent developments by the group to establish the European Photonics Academy to train industry and students in a wide range of advanced photonic technologies. Sponsored by Aerotech Inc.

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