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Femtum Raises $3.7M Seed Round
QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 31, 2024 — Laser technology startup Femtum has closed a 5 million CAD ($3.7 million) seed round. The funding accelerates its commercialization of mid-IR fiber lasers tailored to semiconductor manufacturing processes. Femtum is a 2017 spinout of the University...
An Actively Cooled Mid-IR Telescope Peers Through Space Dust
Jun 1, 2022 — When the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Herschel Space Observatory revealed that the universe was far richer in star-forming dust than previously thought, the engineers who were developing a new mid-infrared space instrument recognized...
Self-Cleaning Optical Fiber Generates Supercontinuum Light Sources
TAMPERE, Finland, May 11, 2022 — Researchers at Tampere University collaborated with colleagues at the University of Warsaw and the University of Burgundy France-Comté to create a supercontinuum light source in the mid-infrared, using a nonsilica, graded-index, multimode...
Demand for MIR Photonics Rises on New Gas Analysis Applications
Nov 29, 2021 — Real-time precision gas analysis is critical to a wide range of industries, including medical diagnostics, emissions monitoring, and semiconductor fabrication. The relatively simple molecular structure of most gases makes them ideal candidates for...
Project MISSION Eyes Future of Silicon Photonics
SOUTHAMPTON, England, April 21, 2021 — A research project aimed at advancing the range of silicon photonic applications is bringing together research leaders from the universities of Southampton, Sheffield, and York, the University Hospital Southampton, and the National Oceanography...
Innovation Shines at 2018 SPIE Prism awards
Feb 12, 2018 — The 2018 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation brought out the best of the best. Many companies in Europe and others from around the world were among 30 finalists for the awards that recognize the industry’s top innovations and groundbreaking...
Fast and Sensitive Mid-IR Detectors for Gas Sensing
May 2, 2017 — Demands from industrial, petrochemical and new medical diagnostic applications are very wide-ranging — from air quality, emission monitoring and leak detectors, to breath analyzers and explosive material sensors. For many years, mid-IR...
Global Spectroscopy Market Set to Expand
Jan 6, 2017 — The global spectroscopy market continues on its rise toward the billion dollar zone. With increasing applications in pharmaceuticals and the life sciences, as well as some in industrial settings and food safety, the market is witnessing steady...
Breakthroughs Bring THz Spectroscopy, Sensing Closer to Mainstream
Nov 3, 2016 — The terahertz (THz) electromagnetic spectrum (1 to 10 THz), sitting between the infrared wavelengths on the higher frequency side and microwaves on the lower frequency side, has unique and important properties. THz waves can pass through a number of...
FS Pulses in Mid-IR Wavelengths Could Reveal Inner Workings of Atoms
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 1, 2016 — A laser pulse synthesizer with the ability to attain ultra- short pulses in the mid-IR range while maintaining favorable energy scalability could provide scientists with a more complete view of the inner workings of atoms, molecules and solids. For...
Sulfur Copolymers Boost IR Optics
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 15, 2014 — A new polymer made from sulfur demonstrates high transmission of IR light that could greatly enhance thermal imaging systems. While crystalline IR materials such as silicon, germanium, zinc selenide and halide salts are all frequently used for IR...
Mid-IR Lens Incorporates Waste Sulfur
TUCSON, Ariz., April 21, 2014 — Thin, inexpensive plastic lenses for IR imaging devices can be manufactured from waste sulfur generated by refining fossil fuels.
Daylight Solutions Licenses Mid-IR Tech to Corning
SAN DIEGO, June 5, 2013 — Daylight Solutions Inc. has licensed its patented mid-infrared technology to specialty glass and ceramics manufacturer Corning Inc. of Corning, N.Y. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Novel Bonding Technology Improves Optical Assemblies
Mar 1, 2013 — Activated covalent bonding overcomes the optical performance and laser damage limitations of traditional adhesive techniques and also can be used with mid-IR components. Optical components and assemblies in which elements are bonded together using...
Thorlabs Extends Mid-IR Capabilities with iGuide Purchase
NEWTON, N.J., and MONTREAL, Jan. 4, 2013 — Thorlabs announced Thursday that it has added mid-IR fiber capabilities to its portfolio through the acquisition of the iGuide optical fiber products segment of Montreal-based IRphotonics. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Quantum Cascade Lasers Enhance Mid-IR Spectroscopy
Dec 1, 2011 — Voltage-tunable output wavelength, broad gain spectra, high output power and efficiency, and innovative cavity geometries give quantum cascade laser-based sensor systems an edge in applications from gas analysis to chemical sensing. Most vapor...
Imaging in the Ultrafast Lane
May 1, 2011 — For ultrafast imaging at wavelengths well below the visible, consider the work being done by a team led by professors Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane. The married couple holds appointments in physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and...
Applications growing for mid-IR lasers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – New military and sensing applications are expected to drive the mid-IR laser market in the next few years. These new segments will grow approximately 30 percent per year, compounded annually through 2014, according to a report titled Mid-Infrared...
Investment Focus Group
Nov 1, 2010 — Working with regional venture capitalists, The National Science Foundation MIRTHE (Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment), based at Princeton University, has created an investment focus group to introduce industry and investment...
Planar Waveguide Transmits Mid-Infrared Radiation
Aug 1, 2006 — Because so many molecules have unique spectral signatures in the mid-infrared — generally defined as those wavelengths between several microns and several tens of microns — the evolution of integrated mid-IR components would be beneficial for the...
Quantum Cascade Lasers: Valuable New Tools for Laser Spectroscopy
Feb 1, 2005 — Semiconductor lasers emitting in the mid-infrared spectral range between approximately 4 and 13 μm are attractive for a number of applications, such as trace-gas sensing, production and environmental control, medical diagnostics, and free-space...
Group to Develop Platform for Free-Space Communications
Feb 1, 2004 — A group of UK companies and universities will develop a next-generation optical platform for free-space optical communications. The proj-ect, known as Alfonso -- Adaptive Long-Wave Free-Space Optical Network Solutions -- and valued at more than...
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