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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.
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Microscopy Brings New Worlds Into Focus
MIKE WHEELER, MANAGING EDITOR
Though the father-son duo of Hans and Zacharias Janssen is widely credited with developing the first microscope in the late 16th century, it was the English scholar Robert Hooke who inspired widespread public interest in the new science of microscopy. His seminal work, “Micrographia,” published in 1665, included never-before-seen illustrations of magnified insects and plants, just as he saw them from his microscope.
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Lighting Up Microscopes: Advances and Emerging Sources
Spanning more wavelengths with greater intensity in ever smaller and cheaper packages, illumination systems are a make-or-break component in any modern microscope. Microscope developers are a resourceful bunch, opting to use the light source available to them at the time to peer at or below the surface of various materials. Even dating back to the 17th century, Galileo used sunlight to produce the very first optical microscope.
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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) operated by Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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A broadband fiber amplified spontaneous emission light source delivers the brightness and low spatial and temporal coherence required for optical coherence tomography and ranging applications.
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UV/VIS/IR Custom Coatings
Newport Thin Film Laboratory Inc.
NTFL is a fully equipped clean room coating facility specializing in the design and manufacture of vacuum deposited optical thin films used in the ultraviolet, visible and infrared spectrum.
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Thin-Film Coatings
OptoSigma Corp.
For more than twenty years, OptoSigma has been at the forefront of the optical components industry, manufacturing thin-film coatings to precision standards.
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New Optics Drawings Standards
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Dave Aikens, the leader of the project to adopt ISO 10110 as an American National Standard, will provide an introduction of OP1.0110, the American National Standard for optics drawings. He will discuss the format of the drawings, as well as an overview of the tolerance notations for things like glass parameters, surface wave front, imperfections and texture. He will also explain how OP1.0110 differs from ISO 10110 and provide insight into how both standards will change in the coming decade.
Dave Aikens is President and founder of Savvy Optics Corp. and is the head of the American delegation to ISO TC 172 SC1 which published ISO 10110. He is the Secretary of the American Standards Council for Optics, ASC OP, which published OP1.0110, the American National Standard for optics drawings.
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Features
Solid-State Lasers; Machine Vision Optics; Imaging Advances; Lighting: Multiphoton Microscopy
Issue Bonus
Asia-Pacific Regional Report
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 Managing Editor Mike Wheeler at
[email protected] or use our online submission form www.photonics.com/submitfeature.aspx
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