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Photonics Spectra: February 2017

Photonics Spectra
 February 2017


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Graphene Alignment Technique Holds Promise for Nanophotonics Nanomaterials, such as nano-wires and nanotubes, are designed to have quantum confinement in one or two dimensions so that their properties in other dimensions can be engineered, differing from that of their corresponding bulk material. As such, the unique and superior properties of nanomaterials are always associated with their shape and symmetry. Consider graphene. A single layer of graphene...
Ultrafast Fiber Laser Opens Doors for Additive Manufacturing Femtosecond lasers have long been a workhorse in subtractive manufacturing, prized for their unique ability to athermally ablate materials. They are commonly used in surface structuring, drilling and...
Spherical Lens Probes Open New Possibilities in Raman Spectroscopy Since its inception in 1928, Raman spectroscopy has allowed scientists to see a chemical “fingerprint” of material. Using light, substances are identified by the way specific wavelengths...
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Big Data Drives Optical Networking Changes Long driven by telecom, optical networks are now being pushed by large data centers operated by Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others. Here, runs are shorter and the emphasis is not on...
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Optics, Tunable Lasers to Move Multiphoton Microscopy Forward Of the numerous far-field imaging techniques, multiphoton microscopy has proved particularly valuable in many biological studies, providing multimodal images from deep within tissue, as well as...
EDITORIAL
Innovation at the Nanoscale Last April, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his 10-year roadmap for Facebook. According to the plan, users of the popular social media channel can expect to see an increase in the use of high-definition video and a more prominent role for apps like Messenger and Instagram. A few years farther out, expect artificial intelligence and virtual reality to take center stage.
TECH PULSE
Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Device Offers Widest Real-Time Views of the Sun A groundbreaking new optical device has been developed to correct images of the Sun previously distorted by multiple layers of atmospheric turbulence. The device developed at the New Jersey Institute...
Plasmonics Simplify Printing and Imaging in Color and Infrared A new manufacturing technique promises to bring a simplified form of multispectral imaging into daily use. Using existing materials and production approaches that are scalable and inexpensive, Duke...
Solar Cells Processed at Room Temperature Could Cut Costs of Wearable Devices A simple solution-based electrical doping technique could help reduce the cost of polymer solar cells and organic electronic devices, and help move organic photovoltaics into a new generation of...
Quantum Photocell Could Boost Solar Cell Efficiency A novel type of quantum heat engine photocell, which can help control the flow of energy in solar cells, could be a means to increase solar cell efficiency. The photocell has demonstrated the ability...
Single Device Can Function as Both a Laser and Anti-Laser An integrated device that demonstrates lasing and anti-lasing at the same frequency in a single cavity has been developed using parity–time symmetry. The lasing and anti-lasing resonances that...
Ultrastrong Coupling Achieved Between Light and Matter An ultrastrong coupling (USC) between photons and qubits 10 times larger than ever seen may open the door to a domain of physics and applications deemed unattainable until recently. Researchers at...
Silicon Nanoantennas Turn Light Around Light is rather hard to control, as photons have neither mass nor electric charge. Devices such as nanoantennas can control the propagation of electromagnetic waves, but only to a certain degree. A...
1.3-nm Photodetector Can Generate More Current Than Thicker Devices A photodetector that is ten times smaller than current standard silicon diodes has been developed using molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) sandwiched between two graphene sheets. The 2D device, which has...
LIGHT SPEED
Osram Outfits Hockey Players to Celebrate Anniversary Light developer Osram Licht AG outfitted the Eishockeyclub Red Bull Munich professional hockey team with wearable high-tech lighting for a night game, crowning celebrations for the brand’s 110th anniversary. The rink and its surrounding area were illuminated by floodlights and effect lighting, with Osram unveiling its latest offering. In 2017, the company will be introducing LED lighting...
Teledyne Technologies to Acquire e2v Electronic component developer Teledyne Technologies Inc. will be acquiring technology systems developer e2v Technologies PLC. Under the terms of the offer, e2v’s shareholders will receive 275...
AMS Withdraws from NY Wafer Facility Sensor manufacturer AMS AG has withdrawn from a proposed wafer fabrication facility project with the state of New York amid delays. ”We received a warm welcome from day one from the State of...
GE Acquires Stake in Concept Laser, Arcam General Electric Co. has announced the execution of an agreement to acquire a 75 percent stake in Concept Laser, a German manufacturer of 3D metal printing machines, allowing it to take full...
Coating Unit, Assisted by AccuCoat, Installed in Rochester High School Thin-film optical coating provider AccuCoat Inc. has assisted a local high school in obtaining its own coating unit. Sixty students per semester at East High School in Rochester will now reap the...
New AIM Photonics Test, Assembly and Packaging Facility The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) named Eastman Business Park as the new home of its Test, Assembly and Packaging (TAP) manufacturing facility. The site...
Alpes Lasers to Supply QCLs to US Air Force Intelligence Project Advanced light source developer Alpes Lasers SA has been selected as a supplier and developer of broadband quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) by several chemical sensing companies working on the Standoff...
Gigaphoton Test KrF Excimer Laser Semiconductor lithography light source manufacturer Gigaphoton Inc. has begun testing a new krypton fluoride (KrF) excimer laser, a light source for the annealing process at large-scale liquid...
Santa Barbara Infrared Receives Rights for Surrey NanoSystems’ Black Coating Surrey NanoSystems Ltd. has given Santa Barbara Infrared Inc. the exclusive rights for its ultra-black Vantablack S-VIS surface coating in blackbody calibration sources for the company’s...
Berliner Glas Used for EnMAP Satellite The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP), a German satellite Earth observation mission, is using prisms from the Berliner Glas Group onboard the craft for laser communication in space....
CSIRO Heliostats Deployed to Thermal Focus The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia’s federal government agency for scientific research, will be providing its solar heliostat technology to...
Sener, Thales Alenia Space Sign Business Agreement Engineering and technology group Sener and space systems developer Thales Alenia Space have signed an agreement to execute a joint business plan that will develop the Spanish space industry with the...
BAE Systems Provides Specialized Weapon Sights to Army The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a seven-year contract worth up to $384 million to provide specialized weapon sights that improve soldiers’ ability to quickly and accurately engage targets...
Optics Balzers Opens Malaysian Facility Optical coating and component developer Optics Balzers AG has opened a production facility in Penang, Malaysia, with 30 new employees. “There have been various inquiries about high-quantity...
Gooch & Housego Wins UK Funding Photonic systems developer Gooch & Housego PLC won government funding from Innovate UK and the UK National Quantum Technologies Program for its REVEAL and CASPA projects. REVEAL aims to develop a...
SPECTROSCOPY SPECIAL SECTION
Global Spectroscopy Market Set to Expand 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...
Commerce, Health and Safety Benefitting From Spectroscopy For decades, spectroscopy has been used in the life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and even cosmetics and forensics applications. Now, researchers are finding new applications for this noninvasive...
LIGHTER SIDE
LED-Powered Tiles a Potential Boon for Home Decor? Imagine changing the color of a bedroom or bathroom with the touch of a button. Envision transforming a living room into the inside of an art gallery or a ceiling into a movie theater. Italian scientists are using pioneering photonics technology to make these possibilities reality with the Luminous Electronic Tile — LUMENTILE— project, combining the simplicity of a plain ceramic tile...
PRODUCTS
Fiber Laser The SBM1200FL flatbed, multipurpose, fiber laser, cutting and engraving system from Laser Photonics LLC is built with customizable fiber laser power and an advanced direct drive motion and control...
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Camera Link Translator The CLT-371 Camera Link Translator from Vivid Engineering converts Camera Link to HD-SDI, enabling the use of Camera Link cameras with HD-SDI monitors. Camera Link to HDMI and Camera Link to...
Vivid Engineering
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Intermodulation Tracker The PIM Hunter from Anritsu Co. is a passive intermodulation test probe that helps field technicians quickly discover the precise location of external passive intermodulation sources at cell sites....
Anritsu Co., M3US
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UV-Conversion Coatings Acton Optics & Coatings has announced its UV-conversion coatings, Metachrome and Unichrome. The composite phosphor coatings provide scientists and engineers with a cost-effective way to...
Teledyne Acton Optics
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Detection and Surveillance System The 550CZ-18 long-range target detection and surveillance system from Sierra-Olympic Technologies Inc. is designed for all-weather security applications. The MWIR imaging system features...
Sierra-Olympia Technologies Inc.
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Standalone High-Speed Camera The PhotoCam SpeederV2 portable, standalone, high-speed camera systems from Photron Inc. is designed for production fault-finding. The camera system allows workers to quickly view and identify...
Photron USA Inc.
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Embedder Software The VisualApplets Embedder from Silicon Software GmbH is a hardware solutions that is easily integrated into image processing devices such as cameras and vision sensors. Using VisualApplets,...
Basler Mannheim
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Multi-Focus Optics The foXXus and twoXX multi-focus optics from AdlOptica GmbH are designed for multi-kW lasers. Focusing a laser beam in separate foci perpendicular to or along the optical axis allows optimizing...
AdlOptica GmbH
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Tunable Lasers The Continuously Tunable Lasers (CTL) platform from Toptica Photonics AG can now provide continuous, mode-hop-free wavelength tuning up to 110 nm around the wavelengths of 1050, 1320 and 1470 nm. ...
Toptica Photonics AG
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Linear Stages PIHera Piezo Flexure linear stages from Physik Instrumente LP are featured from P-620.1 to P-629.1, consisting of 60 stages available in a wide variety of travel ranges. Flexure-guided piezo...
Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG
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Isolation Source The Surface Solution Isolation Source from 4D Technology Corp. is designed for the AccuFiz Fizeau laser interferometers. The fiber coupled source excludes all but the surface of interest,...
4D Technology Corporation
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Diffuse Reflectance Probe The Diffuse Reflectance (DR) Probe from Ocean Optics Inc. measures 45° diffuse reflectance, enhancing UV-VIS and NIR spectroscopy results. The sampling tool removes localized variance in...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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CO2 Optics A line of field-replacement CO2 optics is available from Laser Research Optics for lasers that cut composites for precision gaskets where smooth-edge definition is required. The optics include...
Laser Research Optics
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Stereo Vision Building Kit The new stereo vision building kit from AutoVimation GmbH is extended by an electronics box, calculating the stereo image from two USB cameras with FPGA support. The output delivers a depth of...
autoVimation GmbH
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Laser Beam Profiling Training Tool Ophir Photonics has announced the "Understanding BeamGage: The BeamGage Training DVD" training tool for the BeamGage laser beam profiling system. Presented in 14 video chapters, the training...
MKS Ophir, Light & Measurement
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Tension Cleaver The Fujikura CT-104 tension cleaver from AFL is designed for fibers with a cladding diameter of 80 to 600 µm. Developed to address the medical and fiber laser markets, the CT-104 fiber...
AFL
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Magnifier Luminaire Featuring the fully-rotational OMNIVUE magnifier lens, the OMNIVUE LED Magnifier Luminaire from Waldmann Lighting is now equipped with new LED technology. The 3 diopter (1.75x) magnifying lens,...
Waldmann Lighting Co. USA
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sCMOS Camera System Princeton Instruments Inc. has announced the KURO:1200B, a sCMOS camera system to implement back-illuminated sensor technology. The device delivers both fast frame rates and high sensitivity...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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Conveyor System The WIDECURE conveyor system from Dymax Corp. is designed to offer consistent, fast and safe curing. Equipped with a 25-in.-wide belt, this system is ideal for curing light-curable materials on...
Dymax, Headquarters
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Beam Shapers A new family of axicon array beam shapers from PowerPhotonic Ltd. is designed for use with multi-mode lasers. Capable of handling high peak and pulsed power of <20 kW continuous wave with a...
PowerPhotonic Ltd.
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Mineral Spectrometer Spectral Evolution Inc.’s oreXpress spectrometer with EZ-ID software can provide critical real-time mineral identification in limestone exploration where it is important to distinguish between...
Spectral Evolution Inc.
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Silicon Photodiodes Annular Quadrant Silicon Photodiodes from OSI Optoelectronics Inc. operate between 350 and 1100 nm for backscatter reflectivity measurements. The new silicon quadrant detector features an...
OSI Optoelectronics Inc.
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Sapphire Waveplates Meller Optics Inc. has announced Sapphire Waveplates that extend IR polarization control into the IR, beyond fused silica optical waveplates. The devices feature Moh 9 hardness, making them...
Meller Optics Inc.
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Lidar Solution Renewable NRG Systems has announced WINDCUBE, an advanced lidar solution that offer meteorology experts real-time, high-resolution vertical and spatial profiling of the planetary boundary layer. ... Request info >
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