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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
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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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An Eye to the Past and a View of the Future
MIKE WHEELER, MANAGING EDITOR
This year Photonics Spectra celebrates its 50th anniversary. In the January issue our editors take a look back at the first 50 years, and also look forward to the future impact of photonic integrated circuits in various industries.
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Data Centers and Telecommunications
Today’s data centers deliver millions of services, processing terabytes of data per second around the world for billions of devices. Considering the volume, it’s amazing that we ever have a signal. As the need for connectivity increases, data centers are under constant pressure to add more and more massive racks of servers and fiber optic interconnects, which takes money and time, energy and real estate.
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Medicine and the Life Sciences
Imagine testing for a host of diseases and conditions in a single sample of blood, saliva, urine or even a few tear drops. Cancers, heart conditions, viruses, food allergies and sepsis are just some of the tests that could be carried out using next-generation lab-on-a-chip concepts that are being explored and patented by today’s top researchers.
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OLEDs Step In Where Design Matters
The near-ideal visual characteristics of OLED displays mean OLEDs will thrive as a mainstream display technology in coming years, while their compatibility with flexible and transparent materials is creating a new market for displays.
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A new manufacturing technique promises to bring a simplified form of multispectral imaging into daily use. Using existing materials and production approaches that are scalable and inexpensive, Duke University researchers have found a way to print and image across a range of colors extending into the infrared.
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As today's computers show fundamental limitations in calculation capacity for future use, a scalable, electrically driven photon source could make quantum computing a reality sooner than expected.
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Splicing and Glass Processing Systems
AFL
The LAZERMaster LZM-110M, LZM-110P, LZM-110M+ and LZM-110P+ splicing and glass processing systems from AFL use a CO2 laser heat source to perform splicing, tapering, lensing or other glass shaping operations with glass diameters up to 2.3 mm.
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UV-enhanced Silicon Photodetector
Electro-Optics Technology Inc.
For time domain and frequency response measurements, Electro-Optics Technology (EOT) has released the new ET-2070 Silicon UV-enhanced Photodetector featuring a 3ns rise time and fall time and a large active area of 2.55mm.
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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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Fast Imaging Photometer
Gooch & Housego Orlando
The Fast Imaging Photometer (FIP) is an ultra-high speed imaging photometer that is ideal for aerospace, defense, automotive and lighting applications. It is NIST-traceable, compact and rugged, affordable and an ideal upgrade from spot photometry systems.
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Zero Noise Photon Counting Camera
PHOTONIS Technologies
The Imaging Photon Camera is ideal for the most demanding low light and high speed applications, such as super-resolution molecule imaging technologies, high speed live cell imaging or fast astronomy events.
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Low-Cosmetic Defect IR Filters for Thermal Imaging
Spectrogon US
Spectrogon manufactures infrared filters and windows with high transmission, high rejection outside the passband, and introducing low cosmetic defects – while maintaining excellent coating uniformity --- for thermal imaging applications such as cryogenically cooled IR detectors and for uncooled microbolometers.
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Light Metrology Hands-On Workshops
Labsphere Inc., Photonics
If you are working with LEDs or SSL lighting products of any type, attending a Labsphere Hands-On Light Metrology workshop will help you to: • Give you and your business a competitive advantage • Understand the jargon and metrics used to express light...
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Laurin Publishing Announces Poster Series
Photonics Media
Laurin Publishing Co., whose titles include Photonics Spectra and BioPhotonics magazines and the Photonics Buyers’ Guide, announces the availability of two posters featuring art that takes a lighthearted look at the early days of the photonics industry.
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An Overview of AFL’s Fiber Processing Software for 100-Series Machines
Tue, Feb 7, 2017 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
This webinar, presented by AFL, will cover the shaping, prototyping and data collection capabilities of AFL's Fiber Processing Software (FPS). Whether you are in the business of advanced fiber shaping or you are producing dozens of components a day, you can advance your skills and benefit your business by learning what AFL software is capable of doing for you. Discussion will include a demonstration of the company's new visual scripting interface, SpliceScript.
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Characterizing Photonics Devices with Transmission Electron Microscopy
Fri, Feb 10, 2017 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
A new generation of transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) have become available which are capable of image resolutions better than 0.1 nm and spectroscopic resolutions better than 0.4 eV. Special purpose sample stages can convert these microscopes into true experimental nanomaterials laboratories. What does this mean for photonics? Join Brookhaven's Eric Stach to learn about ways that TEM can be used to take images of the structure of photonics devices at the Angstrom to micron scale; how diffraction can be used to characterize crystal structure; and how chemical spectroscopy can be used to determine chemical speciation and electronic structure at the nanoscale.
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Features
Lasers for Additive Manufacturing; Raman Spectroscopy; Graphene; Multiphoton Microscopy; Optical Networks
Issue Bonus
Spectroscopy, with directory: Enhanced Advertiser Listing; Market Report; Supplier New Product 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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