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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 studied extensively over the past 10 years in the academic arena, are considered among the most promising tools for the future. Their exceptional optical performance has been demonstrated over a very broad range of applications, showing the superior q...
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
Beyond Recycling: Using Photonics to Save the Planet
Historically, the environment has paid a heavy price whenever innovation or technological advances have taken place. But times are changing, and today, modernization seldom occurs without the environment being considered. The public’s...
Photonics Spectra, January 2013
Doing the Math: Aging World Population Demands Photonics Innovation
An aging world population may be the single biggest social challenge of this century – and photonic technologies and innovation could play a major role in helping us all make the most of this global trend. On the occasion of World Health Day...
Photonics Spectra, January 2013
Photonic Techniques Spark Manufacturing Revolution
The symbiosis of manufacturing and photonics is set to change our lives very soon with advances such as 3-D printers and EUV optical lithography. Conventional lasers of all types are indispensable tools in modern manufacturing, ranging from the...
Photonics Spectra, January 2013
Photonics Industry Undaunted by Uncertainty
Despite lingering economic concerns, the photonics community is looking ahead to a brighter future – even if it means more work in the short term. Ask members of the photonics industry to describe the current state of the market, and the word...
Photonics Spectra, January 2013
Photonics Strengthens Defense – and Offense
Light-based technologies offer the military significant advantages in sensing, communications and even weaponry. The US Army has touted its ownership of the night – and the implied advantage therein. But times have changed. “Nowadays,...
Photonics Spectra, January 2013
Prism Awards Finalists Offer Solutions to Big Problems
Sensors for monitoring environmental toxins and detecting explosives, powerful new lasers for biophotonics, and tools for lithography and spectroscopy are among the finalists for the 2013 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, the global competition...
Photonics Spectra, January 2013
Smartphones Move from Social Media to Social Medicine
Cellphones have evolved from a luxury to a necessity in the past 20 years, and now smartphones are making those same inroads (as of September 2012, 45 percent of American adults owned a smartphone, according to research by the Pew Internet Project)....
Photonics Spectra, January 2013
Charge-Injection Devices Overcome Radiation Effects
An industry expert offers a primer on the advantages of charge-transfer-device imagers. In imaging devices, radiation normally affects certain key parameters – gate threshold voltage, field/channel stop threshold voltage, charge transfer...
Photonics Spectra, December 2012
CMOS Sensors Increase Inspection Speed and Accuracy
As they get faster and offer higher resolution and sensitivity, CMOS sensors continue to impress the manufacturing industry. The main goal of any industrial inspection system is to increase manufacturing efficiency as measured by throughput, yield...
Photonics Spectra, December 2012
Grid Connection Slow in Spite of PV Growth
The European photovoltaic installation market is addressing challenges to grid connection, including complex permitting and lengthy wait times. Solar power, now the third most important renewable energy source in terms of globally installed capacity...
Photonics.com, December 2012
Material Matters for Photovoltaics
Researchers are working to find ever-better materials for solar cell production. It may be tricky times for much of the photovoltaics (PV) industry, but fervent research into solar cell materials has not ceased. From the innovative tailoring of...
Photonics.com, December 2012
New Concepts Advance Solar Thermoelectric Energy
An innovative solar receiver tube is expected to increase efficiency and lower costs for concentrated solar power. Successful implementation of a solar thermal parabolic trough directly correlates to reduced electricity costs, making concentrated...
Photonics.com, December 2012
Plastic Optics Provide Precision
Polymer optics are taking everyday applications by storm, thanks to advances that make plastic more and more competitive with glass. Polymer optics have long been known for being inexpensive and low in optical quality. The ease of high-volume,...
Photonics Spectra, December 2012
Prism Awards Finalists Offer Solutions to Big Problems
Finalists from Europe include tools for pollution monitoring, manufacturing, brain imaging and more. Sensors for monitoring environmental toxins and detecting explosives, powerful new lasers for biophotonics, and tools for lithography and...
Photonics.com, December 2012
Streak Cameras Improve Materials Research
New calibration options enable significant improvements in the accuracy of new and old devices, which could mean big advances in materials for LEDs and lasers. LEDs have numerous advantages over traditional light sources such as halogen or...
Photonics Spectra, December 2012
Surveillance System Enables 24-Hour Target Acquisition
A new multidetector system uses multiple-wavelength sensors and lasers for rangefinding, target spotting and target illumination. Multisensor detectors can be of great use to surveillance systems, whether they use intensified CCD, CMOS,...
Photonics Spectra, December 2012
In Situ Method Optimizes Optical Coatings
Real-time technology helps manufacturers produce better thin films with less downtime, higher yields and lower costs. From the simplest broadband antireflection coatings used on eyeglasses and camera lenses to the complex coatings used in civilian...
Photonics Spectra, November 2012
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