Monthly newsletter from the editors of Photonics Spectra, with features, popular topics, new products, and what's coming in the next issue.
Monthly newsletter from the editors of Photonics Spectra, with features, popular topics, new products, and what's coming in the next issue. Photonics.com/subscribe.
|
Test Design Kits Accelerate a ‘Fab-less to Lab-less’ Transition
For all the promise that market projections offer, forecasts fail to focus on existing challenges that must be met to ensure that integrated photonics maintains and builds on its current momentum. One of the greatest hurdles that currently faces the industry is testing. As the production of photonic chips continues to increase, current test practices, as well as necessary infrastructure, do not scale effectively.
Read Article
|
|
|
Lessons from the Past Shape the Future of Large Optics
In the 1990s, several daunting technological challenges converged, redefining both the perception and parameters of large optics. With the unprecedented demands of initiatives, such as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and numerous other large telescope projects on the drawing board, the optics industry required a scale-up and new levels of performance. In the electronics sector, meanwhile, new-to-emerge classes of consumer and industrial devices demanded large-format, defect-free glass panels, which further influenced the upward growth trajectory of large optics.
Read Article
|
|
|
Polymers and Liquid Crystals Harness the Power of Polarization Control
In his early works on polarization, luminary physicist William Shurcliff offered a powerful sentiment: “If light is man’s most useful tool, then polarized light is the quintessence of utility.” Considerable evidence, both in the form of applications and commercially available products and devices, suggests that Shurcliff’s assessment holds true. Optical materials and components that can control and measure polarization are critical enabling technologies.
Read Article
|
|
|
Tech-X Corporation XSim
Tech-X Corp.
XSim is a powerful GPU-enabled FDTD tool for precise time-dependent EM simulations. With multi-GPU scalability, start on your laptop and seamlessly transition to AWS for faster, cost-effective results. Ideal for photonic integrated circuit designers, convert GDS files to detailed 3D simulations, optimizing performance and ensuring robustness against manufacturing variations. Achieve unmatched accuracy and efficiency.
|
|
High Precision External-Cavity Diode Lasers from Ultraviolet to Infrared
DRS Daylight Solutions Inc.
DRS Daylight Solutions introduces Stretto, a family of high-precision tunable lasers. Designed to enable quantum information science applications, Stretto provides wavelengths from UV to infrared, maintaining a common footprint and interface. This simplicity facilitates the transition from laboratory experiments to OEM integration without redesign. Leveraging Daylight’s military ruggedized designs, Stretto provides performance-at-scale, enabling our customers to succeed in what’s next.
|
|
|
|
| |
ITO Coating on Glass, Plastic, and Crystal
North American Coating Laboratories
NACL provides tailored ITO coatings for diverse industries. Leverage our expertise for optimal performance and durability. Whether on glass, plastic, or crystals, we ensure coatings meet your objectives. With stringent quality control and customization, partner with us for excellence in your next project.
|
|
Waveplate Quality in Catalog and Custom
Meadowlark Optics Inc.
Meadowlark Optics makes the best waveplates, having over 40 years of retarder manufacturing expertise and the ability to manufacture from a wide variety of materials to facilitate high- or low-power applications. Some materials allow retarders to be used over different wavelengths from the ultraviolet through the visible and into the near infrared.
|
|
|
|
| |
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.
|
|
Tools for the Nanoscale
Mad City Labs Inc.
Mad City Labs offers a complete product line of high precision piezo nanopositioners, micropositioners, single molecule microscopes, and atomic force microscopes (AFM). Applications - photonics, quantum sensing, metrology, microscopy, interferometry, spectroscopy, and astronomy.
|
|
|
|
| |
|