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Photonics Spectra - August 2013
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. . . and Everything in Its Place
Machine vision advances help with sorting tasks in manufacturing. In an automated manufacturing environment, things must be placed accurately and very quickly: Industrial sorters frequently must decide in milliseconds where a blueberry should go. Glass in a recycling plant and packages being shipped have similar speed and accuracy requirements. Getting those decisions right demands vision...
Faster Mold Coating Tests Make Glass Processing More Efficient
Bypassing the time-consuming wear stages of heating and cooling allows quick testing of mold coating lifetimes while increasing efficiency for precision glass molding. Optical components that fulfill...
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...
Hybrid Fabrication Makes Better Plasmonic Nanostructures for SERS
Monolithic hierarchical plasmonic nanostructures improve results from surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Plasmonic nanostructures of gold and silver have emerged as attractive nanomaterials because...
Ones to Watch
Ones to Watch Some bright lights are making very early contributions to photonics. by Laura Marshall, Managing Editor,
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They’re making headlines for solving...
Improving Cancer Treatment
Improving Cancer Treatment by Arjun Nair An experimental therapy that deploys gold nanoparticles in the fight against cancer won this 16-year-old high school student from Alberta, Canada, top...
STEM Outreach
At 18, Das is the youngest University Medalist in the University of California, Berkeley’s, history; the annual award includes a $2500 scholarship and is given to the year’s top...
Finding Cancer Cells
As a 17-year-old student at The College Preparatory School in California, Zhang was named a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) 2013 for developing a method to help surgeons...
Liaising for Light
As a young girl in the Netherlands, Huisman had a curiosity about the world around her that led her to study physics. That same curiosity now drives the 18-year-old’s interest in photonics, and...
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! –...
Follower feedback
A member of the SPIE LinkedIn group enjoyed the discussion so much that he added another question. If you have additional advice for Gábor or any of our other readers, please email our...
Reader Polls
ABCs of Photonics How about starting a blog or section that caters to grade-school children? We could all participate, and we would hopefully spark interest in young minds. – Bruce Marvin (via...
Mergers, Acquisitions and More
In past years, we’ve reported from trade shows and conferences that the mood was one of “cautious optimism” that progressed to, as someone said, “restrained exuberance.”...
Editorial
Looking Back, Seeing the Future
We were saddened to hear of the passing of James P. Gordon on June 21. Gordon, whose contributions to quantum electronics and photonics included work on the first demonstration of the maser in 1954, was 85. As a student in the lab of Charles Townes, Gordon analyzed, designed, built and demonstrated the successful operation of the first maser with Townes and Herbert Zeiger in 1954. He received a...
Tech Pulse
Groups demonstrate electrically driven polariton lasers
An electrically driven polariton laser – one fueled by electricity instead of light – was demonstrated recently by two separate groups. Optically driven polariton (a mix of photons and...
Nonlinear media controls light with light
A variety of nonlinear media, each with tailored optical properties, could be produced using a gold-disk patterning method to perform four-wave mixing. Developed at Rice University, the method is the...
Baby breathes easy with laser-printed air tube
When a child stops breathing, it’s a mother’s worst nightmare. And a doctor’s first instinct is not to reach for a laser to solve the problem. But in a recent extreme case, a...
Electronic components speed spectroscopy
Using electronic components could make atmospheric-gas measurement more even and 1000 times faster than with conventional techniques, and could advance greenhouse-gas measurement. Spectroscopy is the...
Spray-on flat lens works in the UV
A new, easily fabricated metamaterial-based flat lens that bends and focuses UV light could improve photolithography, nanoscale manipulation and manufacturing, and even high-resolution 3-D imaging,...
Optical gratings could make quantum tech portable
A microfabricated chip that produces ultracold atoms could lead to portable, ultraprecise clocks and quantum sensors. Many of the most accurate measurement devices, including atomic clocks, work by...
Nanoantennas improve infrared sensing
Nanoantennas with “slots” that correspond to mid-IR wavelengths are a new way to tune IR light into mechanical action – which could lead to more sensitive IR cameras and more...
Cradle turns iPhone into biosensor
A unique cradle and app for the iPhone use the phone’s own camera and processing power to create a handheld biosensor capable of detecting any kind of biological molecules or cells. The system,...
light speed
Lockheed updates laser rangefinders
Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md., has delivered the first modernized day sensor assembly (M-DSA) laser rangefinder designator (LRFD) for use on the US Army’s AH-64D Apache helicopter. As the...
People In The News
Peter Call has been named field sales manager at CoolLED Ltd., an LED lighting products manufacturer based in Andover, England. Experienced in microscopy and imaging, he will be responsible for...
Patents
Bruker Corp. of Billerica, Mass., has signed a patent license agreement with Minnesota-based 3M Co. enabling it to include 3M innovations relating to matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization...
Collaborations
In Glasgow, Scotland, M Squared Lasers Ltd. has launched a research partnership with Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics to improve environmental monitoring of waste gas emissions. Their project,...
Moves & Expansions
Trumpf Laser Marking Systems AG has opened a 35,500-sq-ft production facility in Grüsch, Switzerland, to accommodate the 70 percent increase in orders for marking lasers over the previous year....
IPC-2013 Conference to spotlight breakthrough technologies
Some 600 scientists, engineers and technical managers will gather Sept. 8 to 12 at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue (Wash.) Hotel for the annual IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC-2013), formerly known as the...
GreenLight
Transparent electrode enables flexible solar cells
A hybrid transparent electrode that overcomes the “electron-transport bottleneck” of polycrystalline thin films could pave the way for flexible solar cells and color monitors, head-up displays in car windshields and opto-electronic circuits for sensors and information processing. Transparent electrodes used in today’s touch-screen monitors, cellphone displays and flat-screen TVs...
Lighter Side
Vision helps robots help you
The robot extracts information from the videos on human motion and poses, and how these relate to objects and activities. Based on that information, it computes the probability for future human action in similar scenarios. Roomba may keep your floors spiffy, but it’s got nothing on Rosie, the household robot from The Jetsons – she took care of a wide range of domestic tasks, leaving...
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