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Thermal Imaging Solutions Mitigate Risks to Pedestrian Safety
According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 75% of automotive-related pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. in 2021 occurred at night. This value is hardly an outlier. Nighttime pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. increased at a rate of more than 3× that of comparative daytime incidents since 2010, per the Governors Highway Safety Association. TriEye’s detection and ranging platform delivers 2D and 3D SWIR images. The company
Photonics Spectra, July 2024
Rare-Earth Doped Fibers Deliver Critical Elements to Dynamic Systems
Industry’s favor for rare-earth doped fibers increased greatly in the last four decades. Erbium (Er)-doped telecom fiber amplifiers, for example, and ytterbium (Yb)- or thulium (Tm)-doped high-power lasers are widely used for many industrial...
Photonics Spectra, May 2024
Bottlenecks in Process and Production Hinder Micro-LED Adoption
Last fall, Samsung Electronics’ visual display business vice president, Tae-yong Son, described the company’s process for manufacturing micro-LED displays as “Trying to place a tiny object, smaller than a human hair, in a specific...
Photonics Spectra, May 2024
Beam Deflection Units Increase the Efficiency of Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology has become a cornerstone in the field of additive manufacturing (AM), especially in the production of metal parts. As a technique that offers unparalleled precision and material efficiency, LPBF plays a...
Photonics Spectra, May 2024
Fine and Fast Metal Printing Meets Industrial Challenges in 3D
Two laser-based methods have taken precedence in additive manufacturing during the past several decades. In the first, the laser builds a larger 3D structure out of 2D contours in a powder bed. In the second, a material is deposited on a surface and...
Photonics Spectra, May 2024
3D-Stacked CMOS Sparks Imaging’s Innovation Era
CMOS manufacturing has undergone a significant transformation in the last 12 months. The manufacturing processes that even seasoned developers regarded as fundamentally experimental 20, or even 10, years ago have come within reach of enabling an...
Photonics Spectra, April 2024
Software-Defined Photonics Orchestrates Light in Future Data Centers
At a system architecture level, software-defined networking (SDN) has transformed data center management in the last decade, decoupling the control plane element from the data plane element. The flexibility in this design innovation enables dynamic...
Photonics Spectra, April 2024
A Quantum Leap for Sensitive Gas Analysis
Far above an oil pipeline, a drone bobs and weaves. The drone, dispatched by Denver, Colorado-based Project Canary, is collecting high-resolution imaging data of the site, while also scanning for any indications that the pipeline is leaking methane....
Photonics Spectra, April 2024
High-Power Lasers Open Applications and Drive Component Demand
The meaning of “high power” varies considerably by sector. Indeed, the high powers that industry applications command, for example, differ vastly from those that are considered high power in the field of biomedicine. The identifiable...
Photonics Spectra, April 2024
The Evolution of 3D Imaging in Industrial Applications
A wide range of applications in industrial automation require and are enabled by 3D imaging. 3D technologies are in demand in varied industries, including aerospace, automotive, logistics, and more. Components and software that deliver high-quality...
Photonics Spectra, June 2024
Has Silicon Photonics Finally Found Its Killer Application?
During the last decade, the exponential growth of data center traffic has been largely fueled by general-purpose cloud- and internet-based applications, such as video streaming, social networks, internet search engines, and e-commerce platforms....
Photonics Spectra, March 2024
Understanding In-Package Optical I/O Versus Co-Packaged Optics
Recent advancements in silicon photonics are upending the optical market in the data center, with significant ramifications for how future AI, cloud, and high-performance computing systems will be designed, architected, and deployed. The core...
Photonics Spectra, March 2024
Advanced Filters Help Space Lasers Deliver Internet from Above
Rapid, on-demand access to information is a necessary facet of daily life in the present “age of communications.” The reliable communication links that society necessitates support person-to-person and device-to-device communications at...
Photonics Spectra, March 2024
Taking Quantum Encryption into Orbit
Entanglement quantum key distribution (QKD) is a fundamental principle for securing future communication networks. For this type of QKD, entangled photons are generated and sent to two separate receivers, often referred to as “Alice and Bob.” These...
Photonics Spectra, March 2024
SPIE Names 2024 Prism Award Winners
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, recognized the top innovations in new optics and photonics products at the 2024 Prism Awards held at Photonics West on Jan. 31. The gala event marked the Prism Awards’ 16th anniversary....
BioPhotonics, Mar/Apr 2024
DUV Lasers Scale Up Pulse Energy and End Markets
In the early 2000s, a husband-and-wife team, Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin of Texas Tech University, first demonstrated the range of outstanding features provided by micro-LED displays. Since then, the technology has seen increasing adoption in the...
Photonics Spectra, February 2024
Part by Part: The Anatomy of a Raman Microscope
Raman microscopy is a fantastic technique for analyzing the chemical composition of samples. It is a nondestructive technique that mitigates the need for material preparation and the use of stains or dyes. Further, combining Raman spectroscopy with...
Photonics Spectra, February 2024
Photonics Reshapes the Future of Computing
Moore’s law has been challenged many times during the past sixty years, but semiconductor engineers always found new tricks to continue doubling the density of transistors on a chip. In the meantime, the cost to do so has skyrocketed. Today,...
Photonics Spectra, February 2024
New Ideas Reshape Beam Shaping
When Theodore (Ted) Maiman described the laser as a solution seeking a problem, beam shaping was not a big deal. A lens or two were enough to project the beam profile onto a screen. The main challenge was operating the laser itself. Figure 1. A...
Photonics Spectra, January 2024
As Biosensors Shrink, Their Potential Applications Grow
Early in his career, Benjamin Miller was focused on drug discovery and strategies for studying how potential medicines bind to their target proteins. There was only one problem: “All of the technology that was available for doing that was...
Photonics Spectra, January 2024
Photonics Paves a Path to the Emerging New Space Sector
New Space, a vibrant and rapidly growing domain that encapsulates private space exploration, satellite deployment, and cutting-edge space technologies, is in the midst of a breathtaking wave of advancements. Photonics has stepped into the spotlight...
Photonics Spectra, January 2024
Waveguide Designs Bring Extended Reality into Sight
Here is something David Goldman, vice president of marketing for Lumus, never expected to come into the field of view of waveguides: Wine growers using augmented reality (AR) glasses to teach unskilled labor workers exactly where to prune grape...
Photonics Spectra, January 2024
Welding Disparate Materials Bridges the Gap in Modern Engineering
Laser welding finds its place in fields such as electromobility (e-mobility), aerospace, ship and rail transport, construction, the energy sector, semiconductor, consumer electronics, medical device manufacturing, and others. Its flexibility and...
Photonics Spectra, January 2024
Terahertz Radiation Boosts Quality Control from Aerospace to Pharma
Contact-free thickness measurements are increasingly important in industrial process monitoring and quality control. In the automotive and aviation industries, the exact thickness of paint and coating layers not only affects the overall appearance...
Photonics Spectra, December 2023
New Technology Quantifies Optics’ Elusive Mid-Spatial Frequencies
New polishing technologies caused a significant shift in optical manufacturing during the start of the 21st century. Computer numerical control (CNC) and deterministic optical polishing/figuring techniques have taken center stage to transform how...
Photonics Spectra, December 2023
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