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Wednesday, August 9, 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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Smart Perception is the Next Stage for Machine Vision
An innovation in hyperspectral imaging combines the high resolution of a linescan sensor with the capabilities of a snapshot camera. Intelligent robotics is one of the technological disruptions that will fundamentally alter society — both from an industrial and a social perspective. And “smart perception” is a key concept that will drive this evolution toward intelligent robotics. Indeed, in the next 20 years, micro-sized cameras will look at every angle, depth, mode or change in any given scene and report back with all relevant information.
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Flat Surface Lens Overcomes Limitations of Conventional Optics
The telescope has been used for more than 400 years. Although there have been many designs created for looking at distant objects, there is a fundamental weakness with the lens system. By necessity, telescopes use curved lenses — which are prone to aberrations. For the first time, a novel flat surface lens system offers the potential for better resolution from a significantly more compact size.
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Via Photonics, Secure Communications
Quantum key distribution as well as emerging techniques that harness temporal cloaking and optomechanical crystals vie for securing optical communications. Much of the world’s communications travel by light. So, data carried on photons moving through free space or over fiber must be made as secure as possible. Quantum key distribution helps do that. Also, security improvements via temporal cloaking and optomechanical crystals are on the horizon.
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Photons and Electrons Produce Hybrid Light-Matter Fluid
Light is composed of waves, but it can also behave like a liquid. In certain circumstances it can ripple and spiral around obstacles. These liquid properties of light emerge when the photons that form the light wave interact with each other.
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Rubber-like material embedded with fluorescent proteins could replace an inorganic phosphor in white hybrid LEDs.
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A new methodology based on gated digital holography paired with a specially designed laser system allows lidar to see through obscured elements of terrain like foliage or netting.
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Brightest, Best Line Scan Lights
Smart Vision Lights
Smart Vision Lights’ innovative design of the Line High-Power (LHP) and economic LCHP series of line scan lights allow delivery of the most intense and fully focusable line light for machine vision line scan applications available today.
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Tornos Series Optical Isolators
Electro-Optics Technology Inc.
Effectively eliminate optical feedback with EOT's Tornos Series wavelength tunable optical isolators for use with laser diodes and low- to medium-power applications between 532-980nm. Wavelength tunability allows optimal isolation at a variety of wavelengths while an optional λ/2 plate is also available.
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Alluxa Ultra Series Filters and Coatings
Alluxa
Alluxa Ultra Series Filters, including Narrowband, Dichroic, UV, IR, and Notch filters, provide the highest performance optical thin film solutions available today. For example, the Ultra Series Flat Top Narrowband filters offer the narrowest bandwidths and squarest filter profiles in the industry.
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Delay Line Linear Stages
Newport Corporation
Newport Delay Line Linear Stages offer high performance at a very affordable price. Linear motor driven stages with an integrated motion controller and optimized for repeatable positioning and fast traverse speeds, make the DLS Linear Stage the ideal solution in your lab for spectroscopy applications that require delay lines.
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Mid IR Fiber Collimator
Micro Laser Systems Inc.
The FC5 Mid IR Fiber Collimator operates between 2.5μm and 6μm. Output beam is user adjustable. Fine 80 pitch threads allow you to optimize collimation for your operating wavelength and lock it down.
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Combined Spectrometer / Microscope
PicoQuant GmbH
Time-resolved fluorescence measurements are one of the most valuable tool for spectroscopists to investigate the excited state dynamics of molecules, complexes, or semi-conductors. Thanks to a new fiber coupling sample holder, the high-end time-resolved spectrometer FluoTime 300 from PicoQuant can be interfaced to a microscope such as the MicroTime 100.
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Precision Optical Manufacturer
BMV Optical Technologies Inc.
Operating since 2001, BMV Optical Technologies is a manufacturer of very high precision optical components, systems and thin-film coatings. Manufacturing from prototype to volume quantities, our products are primarily used in laser based applications.
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The Aries Spectroradiometer
Gooch & Housego Orlando
We are proud to introduce our next generation spectroradiometer, the Aries. Based on the proven design and performance of the OL 770, the Aries offers an array of enhanced capabilities, including WiFi and Ethernet connectivity for easy integration into production environments.
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The 2017 Photonics Buyers' Guide - Special Offer
Photonics Media
If you buy products and services related to lasers, optics, imaging, sensors, detectors, test and measurement, light sources, fiber optics, spectroscopy, materials and coatings -- you need the Photonics Buyers' Guide. Our editors verify all 4000+ company listings annually.
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Learn Efficient Light Pipe Design Using Virtual Prototyping
Tue, Sep 19, 2017 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Attendees will learn how to design better, more efficient light pipes using Lambda Research's TracePro software - a 3D CAD virtual prototyping program with the horsepower and tools to simulate and design light pipes. The webinar will cover effective methods and detailed procedures for simulating light propagation in a light pipe model; analyzing cross-talk effects; producing desired output objectives; and optimizing models for efficiency and output. This webinar is for anyone designing light pipes, especially for automotive and avionic displays, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics applications and medical devices. Presented by Lambda Research Corporation.
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Features
Optical Materials in Aerospace; Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics; Photoacoustic Spectroscopy; Lidar
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