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Automated Pigtail Fabrication Needed for Future Networks
The need to automate the manufacture of fiber optic components is clear. Automation must be embraced if the industry is to fuel the expansion and urban deployment of next-generation networks. The question is how best to implement automation in the manufacture of fiber optics.Most attempts to date have featured fragmented, single-process automated or semiautomated manufacturing cells that still require extensive manual participation. These "person-centric" approaches, while an improvement on...
Photonics Spectra, March 2002
Automating Optoelectronics Manufacturing
The financial situation confronting the optical networking industry is placing new demands on the companies that supply it with advanced optoelectronic components. Because of the recent slowdown in spending, carriers are looking for ways to maximize...
Photonics Spectra, March 2002
Choosing a Scientific CCD Detector for Spectroscopy
Since the invention of the charge-coupled device by Willard Boyle and George Smith at Bell Labs in 1970, there has been an explosion in its use in scientific, medical and industrial imaging, and in spectroscopy applications.CCDs represented a...
Photonics Spectra, March 2002
Cutting Manufacturing Costs
With increasing market pressure to make significant reductions in the cost of manufacturing photonic components, engineers are turning more and more to new design approaches, higher levels of device integration and the extensive use of automation...
Photonics Spectra, March 2002
Excimers Smooth the Path to Well-Lubricated Bearings
Applications in the defense and aerospace industries have increased demands for spherical plain bearings that require less maintenance and that yield higher performance and longer life. These demands, in turn, have initiated the development of laser...
Photonics Spectra, March 2002
Specifying Injection-Molded Plastic Optics
The use of plastic optics continues to grow in popularity as optical design engineers discover the many ways these components can manage light. Plastic optical elements and systems appear in a wide spectrum of industrial and medical applications,...
Photonics Spectra, March 2002
Beam Profiling Aids Fiber Optics Manufacturing
In the fiber optics industry, one constantly hears that new markets will remain elusive unless production efficiency is improved. It is a common goal, therefore, to develop better processes. We propose beam profiling as a scalable improvement for...
Photonics Spectra, February 2002
Broadband Gain Chips
Telecommunications requirements such as dynamic provisioning, channel protection, wavelength conversion and the replacement of fixed-wavelength distributed feedback lasers are driving the adoption of tunable laser sources. External-cavity lasers...
Photonics Spectra, February 2002
Cameras Are Focusing on All Microscopy Applications
There is more going on in microscope cameras than meets the eye. Digital interfaces, as much as the demands of the applications, promise to deliver higher camera resolution and user-friendly operation. New CCD sensors under development should yield...
Photonics Spectra, February 2002
Photodiodes
A decade after the Gulf War, the US is again involved in a military campaign, with "smart" weapons playing a key role. In fact, the political success of this effort has depended in part on the ability to keep collateral damage to an absolute minimum...
Photonics Spectra, February 2002
Planar Optical Integration
Since the beginning of the most recent boom in the optical fiber industry, component vendors have introduced many technologies, among them planar optical integration, in which optical circuits are constructed out of waveguides fabricated on silicon...
Photonics Spectra, February 2002
Staff Report: A Leaner, Meaner Job Market for Photonics Engineers
At the close of 2001, the photonics job market found itself 180 degrees from where it had been at the end of 2000. Employers hold all the cards in this new environment, and those sign-on bonuses and stock options that were once commonplace are now...
Photonics Spectra, February 2002
Active Alignment Is Here to Stay
Active alignment is a ubiquitous process in fiber optic component assembly that sets the photonics industry apart from the semiconductor and electronics industries with which it is most often compared. For any company accustomed to applying the...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Applications Will Bolster the Industrial Laser Market
According to analysts, the worldwide market for the laser sources and systems used in industrial materials processing has shown, on average, double-digit annual growth over the past five years. This trend should continue over the next few years,...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Automated Metrology and Inspection
The 2001 downturn in telecommunications has significantly affected component manufacturers and carriers alike. One result has been a substantial decrease in capital equipment spending as companies position themselves for a period of slow...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
CCD vs. CMOS
One of the most significant imaging technology events will occur in 2002 because of business circumstances: consolidation of the CMOS imaging marketplace. The past five years has been a period of great enthusiasm for the potential of CMOS imagers,...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Deposition Systems: Meeting the Demands
The key to growing the market for vacuum deposition equipment is in meeting the demands that drive it: higher throughput, enhanced automation and more precise control of layer thickness.The focus of these demands includes dense wavelength division...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Diversity Powers Laser Market
In the past few years, telecommunications has received enormous attention in the laser industry and in the photonics press. While telecom applications continue to offer tremendous long-term potential for laser manufacturers, market diversity remains...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Laurin Publishing 2001 Photonics Awards
The Distinction in Photonics Award honors those individuals whose dedicated service over the years has contributed to the growth and prosperity of the photonics industry. The publishers and editors at Laurin Publishing are pleased to present the...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Miniaturization Drives Spectroscopy
In the spectroscopy industry, "downsizing" in 2001 described more the miniaturization of instrumentation than the reduction of work forces. Indeed, since the release of the first commercial miniature spectrometer in the early 1990s -- the fortuitous...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Optical Network Components
Since 1999, the fiber component industry has shifted its developmental resources from volume production of leading-edge components to delivering the best component value for the equipment manufacturer’s dollar.This shift lies at the confluence...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Optically Pumped Semiconductor Lasers
The past few years have seen a resurgence of interest in optically pumped -- rather than electrically pumped -- semiconductor lasers. Optically pumped semiconductor lasers show significant promise as efficient, compact, reliable sources, offering...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Photodetectors Adapt to Emerging Applications
Technology and economics drive photodetector innovations. Technology determines what can be developed, while economics governs both what is developed and the rate of development. However, economics varies from market to market and over...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Photonics Design and Solutions
Lasers support a multitude of disciplines, from manufacturing and medicine to communications, entertainment and the arts. Recently, lasers have taken center stage and have become art themselves. Alternative media pioneer and artistic visionary...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
Planar Waveguide Battleground
The demand for increased communications bandwidth in North America is rapidly being replaced by demands for technology that will allow service providers to use existing optical capacity more efficiently and profitably. Consequently, a growing number...
Photonics Spectra, January 2002
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