Elliot Taps New Managing Director

VIGO Photonics opened its first office in the U.S., in St. Petersburg, Fla. The North American headquarters is headed by Scott Riggi and will serve as the primary interface for customers in the U.S.,...

Spectral MD Holdings, a predictive analytics company with proprietary AI and optical technology for treatment decisions in wound care, appointed Niko Pagoulatos COO. Pagoulatos has held multiple...

Laser optics manufacturer INNOVAVENT GmbH named Sebastian Geburt managing director. Geburt has been with the company since 2013 and previously served as head of R&D. Geburt will organize the...

The European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) named Nicoletta Casanova to its board of directors. The consortium formally announced the appointment of Casanova, CEO and president of FEMTOprint, a...

Synopsys LightTools® software provides comprehensive workflows for illumination optics design. Features include interoperability with SOLIDWORKS for dynamic, efficient optomechanical modeling....

The Newport Oriel® 77250B Series Monochromator from MKS Instruments Inc. is a manually operated 1/8-m instrument designed for general-purpose laboratory use and all basic research applications...

Thin-film Polarizers from Knight Optical Ltd. are coated with dielectric multilayers. Featuring high efficiency due to negligible absorbance within the coating, the polarizers are available for...

Broadband and Wide-angle Laser Line Mirrors from Knight Optical Ltd. feature an Ion Beam Sputtered (IBS) coating to meet the demanding requirements sought by laser system manufacturers. ...

One of the most critical elements of any time-resolved spectroscopy and dynamics experiment is the optical delay line. A typical optical delay line consists of a retroreflector or folding mirrors on...

Many common spectroscopic measurements require the coordinated operation of a detection instrument and light source, as well as data acquisition and processing. Integration of individual components...

Materials processing with lasers is actually a broad term for a diverse range of applications. The major categories of these uses, and the lasers that service them, are summarized Table 1. At one...

When purchasing an industrial laser system, the astute buyer will look for a Class 1 laser product — a system where the laser beam hazard is completely enclosed and there is no potential laser...

Protecting food crops is vital to the world’s food chain, and pesticides are a critical tool to kill, repel, and control pests. One method to reduce the dangers of pesticides is limiting the allowed...

Small, precise motion modules enhance NGS system design and performance. Following the Human Genome Project, companies are racing to develop Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) instruments for DNA sequencing....

Progress in Laser Processing stems from advances in laser technology as well as the high-performance motion control and automation system directing the beam and/or moving the parts to be processed...

This application note demonstrates the use of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy for the analysis of human serum albumin. An IR5 FTIR spectrometer was used, equipped with a heated ATR accessory, to help tackle...

Photonics Media invites you to join us for our upcoming FREE digital conference, "Photonics for Ophthalmology." The event will feature several 15-minute online presentations on the use of light-based...

Alignment time is the largest contributor to the cost of silicon photonics and optical assemblies. New industrial automation technology dramatically shortens the time required to optimally align...

Since they first appeared in the 1990s, photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), thin strands of glass with an intricate array of hollow channels running along their length, have ushered in a new era of...

This year is an odd and challenging one for many fields. For silicon photonics specifically, macroeconomic headwinds and concerns about war push against the tide of opportunity driven by the rapid...

Polarization that is perpendicular to a cylinder's radial axis. This description of polarization is useful for systems with cylindrical symmetry, such as interactions between focused beams and...

A parallel plate of glass in such a position that the refracted and reflected rays of incident parallel light are mutually perpendicular. In this situation the reflected light is plane polarized, and...

A laser oscillator in which two mirrors are separated by an amplifying medium with an inverted population, making a Fabry-Perot cavity. Standard diode lasers are Fabry-Perot lasers.

A type of optical communications technology dealing with the use of lasers and other light sources to send telecommunication signals along a line of sight through the atmosphere. Also called...

2-photon fluorescence microscopy has become a key technology in biological imaging in neuroscience enabling three-dimensional, noninvasive studies of the neuronal structure and activity on the...

The CTL is the ultimate choice when looking for a laser that is widely and continuously tunable without any mode-hops. It has high power, a narrow linewidth, and low drift. Scans can be performed...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

-Diamond Circuits -CLEO Tech Xfer -Injectable LEDs On this week’s show: the Navy will have a shipborne laser cannon in 2014, injectable LEDs and a transparency-inducing hydrogel aim to aid brain...

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. is a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic,...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

Ohara manufactures precision optical glasses: strip/slab, cut/molded blanks, pressings, high homogeneity blanks, fine gobs, polished ball lenses, near-UV transmitting i-Line glass, ceramic...