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Photonics Spectra Monthly — Positioning Technology, Small Photon Sources in Quantum Communication, Navigating Integrated Photonics, and more… (1/8/2025)

Photonics Spectra Monthly — Positioning Technology, Small Photon Sources in Quantum Communication, Navigating Integrated Photonics, and more…
Monthly newsletter from the editors of Photonics Spectra, with features, popular topics, new products, and what's coming in the next issue.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

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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. Photonics.com/subscribe.
 
Positioning Technology Proves to Be Pivotal in High-Precision Manufacturing
Positioning Technology Proves to Be Pivotal in High-Precision Manufacturing

As it relates to semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, miniaturization seems to have no limits. Yet despite the ubiquity of miniaturization in modern manufacturing, the processes and technologies necessary to fabricate nanostructures present dynamic challenges. Manufacturers supporting the semiconductor and consumer electronics industries have overcome many constraints on the road to sustainable miniaturization, or scaling, as it is known in the semiconductor industry.  Read Article 
A Small Photon Source Promises to Enhance Quantum Communication
A Small Photon Source Promises to Enhance Quantum Communication

In recent years, quantum computers have made headlines, while quantum communication solutions have made it to markets. Simple solutions, such as quantum random number generators, have been transferred into smartphones. Similar quantum encryption modules for terrestrial telecom router systems are available off-the-shelf.  Read Article 
Illuminating the Future: Navigating the Integrated Photonics Industry and Supply Chain
Illuminating the Future: Navigating the Integrated Photonics Industry and Supply Chain

The integration of photonic devices at the wafer scale has emerged as a transformative force, offering a reliable and scalable pathway to implement complex photonic functions cost-effectively on a chip. While integrated photonics has long been synonymous with optical communications, today’s landscape presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities — including those that fall outside the bounds of traditional optical telecommunications and data communications.  Read Article 
 
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Mad City Labs Inc. - Tools for the Nanoscale Tools for the Nanoscale

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Mad City Labs offers a complete product line of piezo nanopositioners, micropositioners, single molecule microscopes, and AFM. Applications — photonics, quantum sensing, metrology, microscopy, interferometry, spectroscopy, and astronomy. Visit us at SPIE BiOS #8525 and SPIE Photonics West #3525.

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AFL - AFL’s LAZERMaster<sup>®</sup> LZM-125A+ AFL’s LAZERMaster® LZM-125A+

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The LAZERMaster LZM-125A+ Series is a splicing and glass processing system that uses a CO2 laser heat source to perform splicing, tapering (to create MFAs), lensing, or other glass shaping operations with glass diameters of 2.0 mm or less. The high resolution optical analysis system works in conjunction with on-board firmware for fully automatic splicing, tapering and other glass shaping processes.

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PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics - High-Throughput Alignment System High-Throughput Alignment System

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The F-141 is a cost-optimized automated photonics alignment system designed for fast and accurate test and assembly of arrays, components, and photonics integrated circuits on silicon photonics wafers. The F-141 is available with up to 6 degrees of freedom in single- and dual-sided configurations.

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In Case You Missed It

 
Light-Based Communication Connects Air, Land, Sea
A team of researchers from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications has demonstrated a prototype mobile all-light communications network, paving the way for seamless connectivity across air, land, and underwater environments, even when communication nodes are on a moving vehicle. The advance could enable uninterrupted data exchange in dynamic and challenging settings for navigation, emergency response, research, and commercial operations.  Read Article 

Electrically-Pumped Laser Grown on Silicon Wafer
An international research team has developed an electrically-pumped continuous wave semiconductor laser suitable for seamless silicon integration. According to the team, this is the first laser of its kind directly grown on a silicon wafer.  Read Article 

Quantum Dot Recycling Improves Sustainability of Lasers
To make quantum dot technology more sustainable, researchers at the University of Strathclyde developed a practical, inexpensive way to recycle the colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) used to make microscopic supraparticle lasers. The researchers created new lasers from the recycled CQDs and demonstrated that the performance of these lasers was comparable to their predecessors.  Read Article 


 
Photonics Spectra Now Reviews the Biggest Stories from 2024
Photonics Spectra Now Reviews the Biggest Stories from 2024
2024 was packed with big business headlines, powerful team-ups, changes of leadership for leading organizations, and life-changing breakthroughs. But before we recap the year's top headlines, Photonics Spectra Now starts off with breaking news as Zebra Technologies Global makes moves to acquire Photoneo. Sponsored by Nyfors Teknologi AB and LightPath Technologies.

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Liquid Optics, Specialty Optical Fiber, Low-Power Lasers, and Optoelectronic Sensors

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