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Transparent Ceramics Find Wide Use in Optics
Polycrystalline ceramics with the cubic spinel structure enable multiple defense applications, including night-vision goggles and IR optics for military systems such as domes, lenses, reconnaissance and sensor windows – they also have applications in nonmilitary arenas such as semiconductor processing, oil and gas drilling, medical optics and lasers. Spinel ceramics have been around for a very long time, and ALON – a ceramic based on a composition of aluminum oxynitride with a cub...
Photonics Spectra, August 2013
What advice would you give to recent graduates in your field?
What advice would you give to recent graduates in your field? My advice to my students is to keep themselves informed and up to date, network with people in the field, and keep in touch! – @slerner – Shimon Lerner, physics lecturer at...
Photonics Spectra, August 2013
Early Compliance Saves Money
Don’t put off thinking about regulatory approval for a medical device that you are bringing to market – experts say you’ll save big in the long run. Medical devices must pass strict regulations before they are released for clinical...
Photonics Spectra, July 2013
Fiber Optics Growing Strong for Biomedicine
A Q&A with fiber companies reveals continuing advances in medical applications. Fiber optics allow medical devices to direct light to hard-to-reach areas for diagnostics and treatment – that’s hardly news. The first glass rod device...
Photonics Spectra, July 2013
Lasers Help Shrink and Sharpen Medical Devices
Product requirements and advances in lasers are leading to growing adoption of photonic manufacturing. In medical devices, smaller is often better – after all, implantable electronics, stents and other pieces of equipment can go into more...
Photonics Spectra, July 2013
Novel Fibers Use Space to Extend Capacity Limits
New optical fibers such as multicore, multimode and hollow core use their spatial properties in the designs of next-generation systems to solve future fiber capacity bottlenecks and other sticky problems. The optical network that enables...
Photonics Spectra, July 2013
Scanning White-Light Interferometry Fingerprints the Polishing Process
Characterizing the effects of polishing optical surfaces beyond a surface roughness parameter may enable superior finishes. A wide variety of techniques can be used to manufacture high-quality optical surfaces. These range from surface generation,...
Photonics Spectra, July 2013
What the Photographers Know: CCD Sensor a Game Changer
Manufacturers of cameras and components offer systems for professional photographers that incorporate the latest technological trends. Professional photographers who shoot for the world’s most famous glossy magazines have special challenges...
Photonics Spectra, July 2013
CO2 Composite Cleaning Critical for Photonic Devices
Advanced CO2 composite spray cleaning is an efficient and adaptable process for build-clean and maintain-clean protocols. A common aspect of photonic devices is the presence of critical components that emit, transmit, modulate, amplify, divide,...
Photonics Spectra, June 2013
Farmers Fuel Growing Market for Imaging Systems
As imaging systems improve, they are increasingly taking to the fields and the skies to send back crucial pictures of crop health. Climate change, population growth and increasingly scarce resources are putting agriculture under pressure....
Photonics Spectra, June 2013
LED Production Goes Bigger, Gets Better
LED makers strengthen the appeal of their products by adopting a semiconductor-industry-type approach to yield management, defect control and dedicated manufacturing equipment. Compared with semiconductor fabrication, LED production is still in...
Photonics.com, June 2013
Optical Sensors Watch What We Eat
Optics technologies are advancing food safety applications. Natural pathogens. Food fraud and adulteration. Bioterrorism. Food safety is more of a concern today than it’s ever been before. Because the path from producer to consumer is...
Photonics Spectra, June 2013
Q&A European Machine Vision Market Is ‘Continuously Growing’
Industry experts share their thoughts on the market’s present and future. Machine vision is arguably one of the keys to efficient manufacturing: From automation to inspection and quality control, vision technologies enable manufacturers to...
Photonics.com, June 2013
Quantum Computers Appear – and Are Put to Work
Actual quantum computers are likely a decade or more away, but advances today are bringing them closer and closer. You can’t yet buy them online or at a big box store, but the day of quantum computers has drawn closer, thanks to recent...
Photonics Spectra, June 2013
Short-Pulse Q-Switched Lasers Enhance Precision Marking Applications
A new subnanosecond operating regime outperforms fiber lasers – at a lower cost than ultrafast, mode-locked lasers. The demand for high-precision marking continues to grow, particularly driven by various microelectronics applications....
Photonics Spectra, June 2013
Shorter Pulse Widths Improve Micromachining
Many cutting-edge applications are critically enabled by ultrafast lasers, but other demanding applications can now switch to a new type of subnanosecond solid-state laser. In recent years, Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers and...
Photonics.com, June 2013
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,...
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
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