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Photonics Spectra - April 2021


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Thermal Imaging Takes the Temperature of New Applications While thermal infrared imaging technology was once limited to defense and government-funded applications, it has become more mainstream over the past few decades. The growing awareness of the technology’s industrial benefits has primarily been driven by the increasing popularity of hand-held thermal cameras for maintenance and electrical troubleshooting. Then came the COVID-19 crisis last year,...
Freeform Micro-Optics Reel Off New Applications Much attention is given to freeform optics fabrication, which has improved the performance of traditional micro-optic imaging systems1. But replicated freeform micro-optics are also fostering...
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High-Energy Lasers Advance Defense and Industry Ever since the laser first appeared in the public consciousness, popular culture has reframed it as a prospective weapon of infinite range and power. This is largely because popular culture is...
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Worsening Wildfires Spark Photonics Demand and Innovations In October 2016, a downed powerline sparked a wildfire that raged for two weeks and destroyed more than 18,000 acres in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests west of Pueblo, Colo. The so-called...
Photonics Reduces Size, Weight, and Power for Defense Systems Many modern troops go to battle carrying up to 80 lbs of gear per soldier. Approximately 20 lbs of this weight can come from batteries for radios and electro-optics. Reducing a soldier’s burden...
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Where there’s smoke, there’s photonics No silver lining will ever be enough to compensate for the lives and livelihoods lost to COVID-19. There was, however, one positive indicator for the scale of the global pandemic: Diminished travel and commute times between March and July prompted a 13% drop in fine-particle pollution compared to the same period in 2019. Pollution levels dropped again in November and December, according to...
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Scientists Follow the Dots to Quantum Optical Circuits Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) developed a method that emits uniform single photons from precisely arranged quantum dots. The advancement benefits from an existing method for intentionally arranging quantum dots that USC professor Anupam Madhukar, corresponding author on the latest study, and his team introduced nearly 30 years ago. The researchers said the development...
3D-Printing Method Enables Microscale Spectrometer Researchers from the University of Stuttgart have developed a microscale spectrometer that can be fabricated through femtosecond direct laser writing. The angle-insensitive 3D-printed miniature...
Laser-based Process Repairs, Coats Metal Components at High Speeds Fraunhofer ILT (Institute of Laser Technology), in collaboration with three industrial partners from the EVEREST project, developed an EHLA (extreme high-speed laser material deposition) process and...
Collaborators Use Terahertz Waves to Probe Beyond 5G Communications Partners from Osaka University and Rohm Co. Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of optoelectronics and semiconductor devices, deployed 300-GHz-band terahertz waves, functioning as an information...
Capasso Group’s Largest Metalens to Date Demonstrates Potential in VR Researchers led by Federico Capasso at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) have developed a 2-mm achromatic metalens capable of focusing RGB colors without...
Holographic Display Improvements Enhance AR, VR Stanford University researchers have developed an approach to improve the image quality and contrast of holographic displays. The technology, as a result, may help to improve near-eye displays for...
Laser-based Method Derives Data from Disordered Media Researchers from TU Wien and Utrecht University have developed a laser-dependent method for gathering data through disordered and complicated media, using a mathematical procedure. In contexts such...
Titanium Oxide Challenges Gold Standard Photoporation Method Researchers in the mechanical engineering department at Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT) have developed a low-cost photoporation method using titanium-oxide nanotubes. Photoporation is a...
Laser Signal Transmission Tames Atmospheric Distortion Researchers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the University of Western Australia (UWA) claimed a world record for what the team is calling the most stable...
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LASER Munich Postponed Until April 2022 Messe München GmbH has postponed LASER World of PHOTONICS to April 26-29, 2022. The event had been scheduled for June 20-24 this year. World of Photonics Congress will be held in a digital...
OSA Names Recipients of its 2021 Awards The Optical Society announced 17 recipients of the 2021 OSA awards and medals. The society will recognize a total of 23 awardees throughout the year for their achievements. Among those honored this...
CLEO 2021 Moves to Virtual Format The CLEO conference for laser science and photonics applications will be presented in an all-virtual format in 2021. CLEO will run from May 9-14. According to a press release from OSA, the virtual...
Startup Expects to Bring Metalens Technology to Commercial Market in 2022 Metalenz, the Harvard University-originating startup that last week received exclusive license to flat-optics innovations developed in the lab of Federico Capasso, said that the long-awaited metalens...
AIM Photonics Announces Interim Leadership John Bowers, AIM Photonics’ deputy CEO and a distinguished professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will serve as acting executive director of AIM Photonics beginning Feb. 1....
ALLS Laboratory at INRS Becomes LaserNetUS' 1st International Member The Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) laboratory of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has received more than $12 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation...
Photonics at Work
Inline Spectroscopy Boosts Pharmaceutical Processing and Quality Laboratory analysis of in-process pharmaceutical materials has historically included many low-value-added steps, and yet it fails to consistently prevent waste. It is also disruptive to the manufacturing process. In this conventional methodology — commonly called “quality by testing” — raw materials, intermediates, and finished products are quarantined from production, sampled, and analyzed in a...
LASER-TEC College Profile
Lake Washington Institute of Technology Lake Washington Institute of Technology (LWTech) is a publicly funded workforce college in Kirkland, Wash. The newest addition to the college’s list of programs is a two-year Associate of Applied Science-Transfer (AAS-T) degree in laser and optical technology. The program prepares students for a job as an entry-level photonics system technician or a specialist in one of the many photonics...
Lighter Side
An astronomer’s startling discovery … at the bottom of a cider can In September 2020, David Campbell, principal technical officer of astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire in England, found a discarded Kopparberg cider can atop one of the telescopes at the university’s Bayfordbury Observatory. It could have been an innocuous, if oddly placed, piece of pollution. When Campbell discovered a sheet of photographic paper inside the can, he suspected it may be...
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