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Advances in Industrial Color Testing of Automotive Metallic Finishes
The measurement and characterization of lightness fluctuations, their scaling properties and their potential causes could help design low-noise industrial painting processes and help engineer innovative color and texture effects. The appearance of an automobile’s color is an essential quality criterion. Modern automotive exterior finishes often incorporate flake-shaped or effect piments in the base coat to obtain high-quality metallic effects.1,2 Metal flakes (e.g., aluminum) are an
Photonics Spectra, April 2015
Breaking the Mold: Overcoming Manufacturing Challenges of Chalcogenide Glass Optics
Fabricating optics using chalcogenides can be challenging because of these glasses’ special optical, mechanical and economical characteristics. Diamond-turned machining is a viable option for addressing some of the issues with the conventional...
Photonics Spectra, April 2015
Consumers and Cost Are Driving Infrared Imagers into New Markets
Once the exclusive domain of the military, infrared imagers are now taking commercial applications by storm, thanks to lower prices and better technology. In fact, it seems the only limit to this flourishing technology is our imagination....
Photonics Spectra, April 2015
Hyperspectral Imager Opens Options for Consumer, Medical and Industrial Uses
The applications, advantages and impact of microsized HSI enable compact, high-end and even autonomous intelligent cameras. Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has long been confined to laboratory use and expensive applications. This is changing now, thanks...
Photonics Spectra, April 2015
Nanoparticles: Probing the Plasma Threshold
Laser-induced plasma generation in nanoparticles has potential application in fields as diverse as medicine and materials processing. To fully harness this tool, it is important to understand how nanoparticles behave in strong laser fields and how...
Photonics Spectra, April 2015
Scintillator Detectors with Integrated Nanophotonics for Medical Imaging
Combining the principles of integrated nanophotonics with traditional scintillator materials will greatly improve the development of radiation detection. Strong evidence exists that integrated nanophotonics innovations will have an evolutionary...
Photonics Spectra, April 2015
Femtosecond Lasers Provide a Gentler Way to Micromachine
From the unbreakably hard to the vulnerably soft – from glass, metals and ceramics to plastics and biological tissue – femtosecond lasers are being increasingly adopted for micromachining a range of materials. Femtosecond lasers are...
Photonics.com, March 2015
Lasers, Optics Enhance Optogenetics Studies
A guide to suitable light sources and fiber optic components for optogenetics research, with a specific emphasis on rodent behavior. The use of lasers and optics for optogenetics is only in its infancy. In the next decade, we can expect researchers...
Photonics.com, March 2015
Photonics Advances in the ‘Land of Ideas’
The Abbe refractometer. The stauroscope. The Easter Bunny, the modern tradition of Christmas trees, and the accordion. All of these originated in Germany, and each has made a significant impact on the world. And the country’s innovative spirit...
Photonics.com, March 2015
Electro-Optical Modulators Empower Lasers for Science Applications
Scientific fields such as atomic physics, chemistry, biology and even astronomy are inspired by the use of lasers and ultimately will benefit from the addition of electro-optical modulators. The fundamental research fields of laser spectroscopy and,...
Photonics Spectra, March 2015
Lasers and Machine Vision Improve Pharma Manufacturing
Through pill marking, quality assurance and more, laser-based manufacturing processes and machine vision make medications safer for consumers and more profitable for pharmaceutical companies. In the multidisciplinary pharmaceutical industry,...
Photonics Spectra, March 2015
Lasers Go To The Movies
Laser technology is poised to bring back the magic to 3-D cinema – and bring audiences back to theaters in droves. Just five short years ago, the world was hypnotized by the release of the first commercially successful 3-D movie,...
Photonics Spectra, March 2015
LED-Based Sun-Simulator Design: Technical and Commercial Considerations
A discussion of the limitations of traditional sun-simulator technologies and the advantages offered by LED systems, with a review of LED-based system design characteristics and cost benefits. Sun simulators – instruments that provide...
Photonics Spectra, March 2015
Peering into the Nanoworld with Optical Microscopy
From brain mapping to breaking the laws of physics, optical microscopy has made huge leaps forward in recent years. But as new dimensions open up, it’s clear the real work has only just begun. Last year yielded a bumper crop of Nobel Prizes...
Photonics Spectra, March 2015
Spectroscopy: Going Small to Get the Whole Picture
Advances based on mobile technology are poised to revolutionize spectrometers. As spectrometers shrink in cost, size and power consumption, their applications grow. Proof can be found in agriculture, medicine and the arts, to name just three...
Photonics Spectra, March 2015
Asia-Pacific: Manufacturing the Future
The world of laser-based 3-D printing is one of endless possibilities, so much so that trying to predict its advances seems pointless. Since its emergence in the 1980s, laser-based additive manufacturing has evolved into many forms, including...
Photonics Spectra, February 2015
ColorLock™ Filter Stacks Enable Better Wide-Angle Imaging
New glass filters overcome considerable design challenges to transmit wide-angle incident light without shifting wavelengths, offering an innovative solution for a variety of applications in which the high transmission afforded by dielectric filters...
Photonics Spectra, February 2015
LSCM and RelA for Quantifying Microwear: A Case Study
Laser scanning confocal microscopy and relative area are effective tools for surface-roughness analysis of experimental Mistassini quartzite scrapers. Laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) and relative area (RelA) are effective tools for the...
Photonics Spectra, February 2015
Multispectral Imaging Extends Vision Technology Capability
Multispectral imaging takes the detection capability of machine vision beyond just color inspection. With wafer-level coating of multispectral filters, advanced multispectral cameras now can be designed in a compact form factor. The result: many new...
Photonics Spectra, February 2015
Nanoimprint Lithography Enables Cost-Effective Photonics Production
The ability to create wafer-scale stitching-error-free patterns of nanostructures on bowed and warped surfaces and even on topography, as well as direct patterning of 3-D structures, makes nanoimprint lithography ideally suited for the needs of a...
Photonics Spectra, February 2015
CO2 Laser Machine Tools Speed Sign Cutting
Interior plastic signs are ubiquitous in hotels, office buildings, hospitals and other structures. These signs may seem like simple products, but they are actually often complex assemblies of numerous pieces. Like many other manufacturers, sign...
Photonics.com, January 2015
Industrial Applications of Laser Profiling
Beam intensity profiling is an essential tool in many aspects of industry. The precise intensity distribution is critical in many applications, such as laser plate printing, laser cutting, particle measurement, medical lasers and biomedical...
Photonics.com, January 2015
Ultrafast Lasers Enable Improvements in Microprocessing
Ultrafast lasers provide an avenue into a number of new microprocessing applications because of their capability for athermal ablation and their extremely high peak power. Many materials and applications can be susceptible to adverse heating effects...
Photonics.com, January 2015
Photonics Innovators Named 2015 Prism Awards Finalists
Finalists include tools for 3-D printing, water analysis and laser-engineered surfaces. Innovative products, inventions and companies will take center stage Feb. 11, as the winners of the 2015 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation are honored during...
Photonics Spectra, January 2015
Silicon Photonics: A Field that Is Constantly Changing
In this active, exciting area of development, new devices, techniques and studies are presented at every turn. Electronics and photonics have been two worlds apart for many years: Electronics had an explosion that forever changed the way consumers...
Photonics Spectra, January 2015
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