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The Road from R&D to Commercialization
Technology transfer programs in the US and abroad are champions to entrepreneurship, offering an effective model of how to turn ideas and innovation in photonics into commercial success. When US legislators formed NASA in the late 1950s, exploring space and landing a man on the moon were not its only missions. In a burst of foresight and efficiency (a quality not often attributed to today’s Congress), they specified another mission: that any innovation engendered by the space program...
Photonics Spectra, June 2013
120-W ArFi Laser Makes Higher-Dose Lithography Possible
A new flexible 90- to 120-W ArFi excimer laser system enables high-volume multiple-patterning manufacturing as well as 450-mm wafer applications. Demand for increased semiconductor device performance at low cost continues to drive the...
Photonics Spectra, May 2013
Hybrid Laser Improves Micromachining Throughput, Quality
A new laser system based on a fiber seed and a DPSS power amplifier produces UV and green wavelengths, allowing manufacturers to reduce costs while increasing volume and precision. Over the past several decades, lasers have played an important role...
Photonics Spectra, May 2013
Laser Gain Media: A Diverse Family of Materials
Various gain media used in laser technologies differ greatly in essential properties such as wavelength ranges and tunability, pumping options, efficiency, and capability for energy storage and high powers. Since the birth of the laser in 1960,...
Photonics Spectra, May 2013
Photonics Steals the Show
The entertainment industry owes a lot to photonics: From laser light displays at concerts to new lens technology for 3-D and other special effects in movies, photonics adds the “wow” factor, thrilling and delighting audiences around the...
Photonics Spectra, May 2013
Trilinear Cameras Offer High-Speed Color Imaging Solutions
With high color quality and speed – and low cost – trilinear color cameras provide an attractive performance-to-cost ratio in line-scan color imaging for automatic optical inspection. High-speed color imaging plays an important role in...
Photonics Spectra, May 2013
Advances in Standoff Detection Make the World Safer
An abundance of new research and development in optical detection at a distance is increasing the ability of governments and military organizations to more efficiently identify and categorize explosives, biological agents and other threats....
Photonics Spectra, April 2013
Coupled Waveguide Technology Enables Multiple Imaging Advances
This approach enables not only wide-range tunable filters, but also an image demultiplexer that forms the core of a multispectral imaging system that captures high-resolution images in real time over a broad wavelength range. Waveguide technology is...
Photonics Spectra, April 2013
Hybrid LEDs Pave Way to New Lighting Applications
Low-cost Lumogen dyes can give white LEDs high quantum yield, reduced environmental impact and more. Many analysts agree that the global lighting market is close to a real revolution: the LED revolution. In fact, the global lighting market is...
Photonics Spectra, April 2013
ITAR: Keeping the US Safe or a Global Trade Headache?
Whether you view ITAR as a necessary and justifiable control helping to safeguard US national security or as a roadblock to reaching the global market, any US photonics company that wants to trade ITAR-controlled products abroad must abide by its...
Photonics Spectra, April 2013
Software Unites Vision and Robotics
Vision technology gives robots the ability to see, and today’s software enables robots to pick up more details, opening the door to an extremely wide range of applications. For decades, vision has been making its way into industrial automation...
Photonics Spectra, April 2013
With Infrared, Military Owns More Than the Night
Short-, long- and mid-wave IR imaging helps defense agencies find targets and even determine intent. At the US Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, the goal is to see – day or night – through smoke, fog, dust or...
Photonics Spectra, April 2013
Lasers Help Fabricate Solar’s Future
Etching, scribing and isolating are essential functions in solar cell manufacturing, and lasers play a large part in each. Solar cells turn light into electricity. So it’s fitting that electricity converted into light – a laser –...
Photonics Spectra, March 2013
MicroLED Arrays Find Applications in the Very Small
Although relatively new, these arrays already are being commercially exploited and have the potential to benefit lighting, lithography, research and other areas. LEDs are now ubiquitous in everyday life. Deployed initially as infrared communication...
Photonics Spectra, March 2013
Multispectral Optical Coatings Are Tough, Versatile for IR Applications
Hybrid diamondlike carbon (h-DLC) coatings for multispectral use combine the hardness of protective DLC coatings with the multispectral functionality of high-end IR coatings. Optical coatings are used in numerous industrial applications for optical...
Photonics Spectra, March 2013
New Multi- and Hyperspectral Cameras Cover Diverse Applications
A new snapshot multispectral imager enables real-time, dynamic applications; its sister line-scan hyperspectral imager handles applications demanding high speed and high spatial/spectral resolution. Both solutions use monolithically integrated...
Photonics Spectra, March 2013
Novel Bonding Technology Improves Optical Assemblies
Activated covalent bonding overcomes the optical performance and laser damage limitations of traditional adhesive techniques and also can be used with mid-IR components. Optical components and assemblies in which elements are bonded together using...
Photonics.com, March 2013
Passively Q-Switched Microchip Lasers Enable Ultrashort Pulses
In a world where the micron has become the standard and competition is fiercer than ever, subnanosecond lasers may be just the answer for emerging industrial microprocessing applications. Femtosecond and picosecond laser sources, which have been...
Photonics.com, March 2013
Photonics Companies Go Green, Naturally
Optoelectronics firms worldwide are going green by recycling, reducing energy use and even installing solar panels to be good to the planet and their communities while helping their bottom lines. It’s only natural. Sustainability is a growing...
Photonics Spectra, March 2013
The Ups and Downs of Technology Transfer in Europe
Should Europeans adopt more of an American “rock star” attitude toward technology transfer? Perhaps we have a lot to learn from our US cousins when it comes to backing that promising business venture. Europe enjoys an excellent standing...
Photonics.com, March 2013
Data Demands Drive Free-Space Optics
Light-based options promise to pick up where radio-frequency technology leaves off. In wireless communications, things are getting crowded. Growing data demands are bumping up against radio frequency capacity. In response, researchers and companies...
Photonics Spectra, February 2013
Fast Camera Improves Surveillance on the Seas
Case study: Automatically imaging the ocean and sending real-time pictures back to a base station enables faster panoramic shots for disaster prevention, aerial mapping and more. For the purposes of maritime surveillance, including coastal water...
Photonics Spectra, February 2013
Photonics Accelerates Bandwidth Race
Technological developments in photonics are the future of mobile communications, from speedy interconnects to novel types of fibers and lasers. How remarkable that the first iPhone was released just over five years ago, back in the...
Photonics Spectra, February 2013
QDs Are Entering the Mainstream
Since their discovery in the 1980s, quantum dots have been quietly gaining momentum, making slow but steady headway in applications from displays and lighting to photovoltaics and health care. Unique and versatile, quantum dots (QDs) are no longer...
Photonics Spectra, February 2013
Thermoelectric Cooler Controller Design Made Simpler
TEC controller design experts offer tips to lower the cost and simplify the design of the devices, and to increase their ease of use. Thermoelectric cooler (TEC) controllers are becoming more prevalent in thermal management designs because they can...
Photonics Spectra, February 2013
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