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Photonics Spectra - January 2016
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Prism Awards Highlight Photonics Innovation
SPIE Photonics West will take a break from plenary sessions, product demonstrations and research presentations for one night next month to honor the winners of the 2016 Prism Awards for Photonics...
Benefits of Stock Optics in Custom Designs
Engineering projects involving optical systems have the same time and money constraints as other engineering projects. Just as electrical engineers learned long ago that integrating standard...
Educational Programs Drive the Future
According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) workforce is critical to innovation and competitiveness. STEM literacy is vital also to ordinary...
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For Advanced Manufacturing, Success Demands Innovation, Education and Public-Private Partnership
Global manufacturing has undergone enormous changes in the past decade as many developing countries have joined the club of tier-one manufacturing nations, a recession stalled demand, and employment...
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As Photonics Advances, Safety and Security Progress
In safety and security, the fundamental drive is to collect as much data as possible. That arises from the nature of the problem, said Benjamin Pflaum, CEO of ABUS Security-Center GmbH & Co. KG,...
Understanding Our Universe, The Future of Photonics Is Written in the Stars
Engineers and astronomers hope to see the planet’s surface firsthand in a few years, via the Orion mission. Since NASA was established nearly 60 years ago, the average person’s...
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Charting a Course for Success
As we welcome the New Year, we renew our focus on the performance, the progress and the promise of the photonics industry. In this, the annual Photonics Spectra trends issue, we explore some of the industry’s top issues and opportunities, including workforce education, safety and security, advanced manufacturing, and space exploration. Contributing editor Judy Donnelly takes a look at...
Tech Pulse
Kirigami Helps Solar Cells Track the Sun
Kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting, could help create flexible solar cells that track the sun to generate more electricity than stationary panels. With help from an art professor,...
UV Light Powers Nanosubmersible Motors
Single-molecule machines that move through fluids with UV light-powered motors could someday carry cargo for medical and other applications. Microscopic machines with motors have been developed over...
Laser Method Would Heat Fusion Materials Faster
Directly targeting ions with lasers could heat certain materials to 1 KeV — equivalent to more than 10 million °F — in 20 fs, or 100 times faster than previously demonstrated. The...
Nanotweezers Increase Velocity of Particle Transport
Nanotweezers that exploit plasmonics, heat and an electrical field flow overcome previous limitations caused by weak convection properties. The nanotweezer system uses a nanoantenna to concentrate...
Plasmonic Absorbers Capture Specific Wavelengths
An experimental fabrication technique has created perfect absorbers for small bands of the electromagnetic spectrum from visible light through the near-infrared. The technique could allow advanced...
'Invisible' Graphene Layer Protects Nanowires from Radiation Damage
Wrapping silver nanowires in a one-atom-thick layer of graphene protects the structures from radiation damage that has historically prevented their use on a commercial scale. "The damage occurs in...
Organic Components May Enable Biodegradable Electronics Displays
With the goal of reducing electronics waste — which poses significant health risks as it degrades in landfills around the world — researchers are developing organic components for screen...
NASA Exploring Freeform Optics for Compact Space Telescopes
Freeform optics technology allows telescope mirrors to take almost any shape, potentially improving image quality over a larger field of view. Prompted by advances in computer-controlled fabrication...
Laser-Machined Microresonators Offer Efficient SHG
Femtosecond laser micromachining and other processes can create smaller optical resonators out of lithium niobate (LN), potentially allowing their integration into chip-scale sensors....
Lotus Leaf-Based Metamaterial Capable of Near-Total Light Absorption
An experimental biometamaterial fabricated using a lotus leaf as a template is capable of almost total absorption of light across the entire visible spectrum. Researchers from the Tokyo and Shibaura...
Changing Frequency Speeds Phosphor Light Emission
A technique for controlling light from phosphors at very high speeds could overcome the materials' slow optical performance, potentially enabling their use in optical communications. Phosphors are...
Record-Setting Phototransistor is Flexible and Sensitive
Inspired by mammals' eyes, a record-setting phototransistor could improve the performance of myriad products — from digital cameras, night-vision goggles and smoke detectors to surveillance...
Lasercom System Also Measures Distance, Speed
Lasers used in space communications could also be used to make precise distance and speed measurements, benefitting spacecraft navigation. Called the Space Optical Communication and Navigation...
Entanglement Effect Doubles Laser Beam Data Capacity
Beams from ordinary laser pointers can be made to mimic the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, potentially doubling the amount of data they can carry. Physicists from The City College of New York,...
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OPIC, OPIE advance photonics in Japan
Optics and Photonics International Congress 2016 (OPIC2016) — including the Optics and Photonics International Exhibition 2016 (OPIE2016) — brings together academia and industry to...
Solutions in Light: Laser World of Photonics China 2016
Asia’s largest trade show for lasers, optics and photonics, Laser World of Photonics China 2016, covers an entire spectrum of the industry, from system components to industrial applications....
Carbon Sciences Funds UCSB Research into Graphene Optical Modulators
Carbon Sciences Inc. will fund R&D at the University of California, Santa Barbara, of a graphene-based optical modulator, a fiber optic component intended to address data center bottlenecks and...
Quanergy Develops Lidar for Self-Driving Cars
Quanergy Systems Inc. plans to release the first solid-state lidar sensor for self-driving cars in 2016. The sensor contains an integrated circuit that scans in every direction without any moving...
Elbit Launches Consumer Wearables Company Everysight
Elbit Systems Ltd. has spun off the consumer wearable company Everysight, which is expected to produce smart glasses for cyclists next year. A defense technology company, Elbit specializes in...
Macom to Acquire Optical Subassemblies Firm FiBest for $60M
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc. (Macom) will acquire Japanese optical subassembly supplier FiBest Ltd. in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $60 million. The acquisition will...
Lightwave Logic Testing Organic Waveguides
Lightwave Logic Inc. is banking on the potential of organic polymers to compete with metallic semiconductors in optoelectronics applications. The company recently began passive testing of ridge...
Sir Richard Friend Awarded for Plastic Electronics Contributions
Sir Richard H. Friend is the recipient of the 2015 Von Hippel Award for his pioneering research on polymeric semiconducting materials, which has helped drive advances in LED and solar cell...
Rofin Sees Profitable Year Despite Lower Sales
Citing cost-saving strategies and consolidation efforts, Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. achieved a 64 percent increase in profits in fiscal 2015 despite a modest decline in sales. Net income for the...
Solar Cell Efficiency Reaches 19.1% in Collaboration between Hanwha, 1366
Hanwha Q Cells Co. Ltd. and 1366 Technologies Inc. have achieved solar cell efficiency of 19.1 percent under a fabrication partnership that began in March. Hanwha Q Cells' cell architecture, called...
KMLabs Secures $5.5M Investment from Intel, Equity Fund
Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc. (KMLabs), a laser manufacturer developing ultrafast short-wavelength technologies, has received an investment totaling $5.5 million. The investment is led by Intel...
SAS Places Order for InnoLas Solar Cell Processing Machines
Solar cell manufacturer Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. (SAS) has placed an order with InnoLas Solutions GmbH for five ILS-TT high-throughput laser machines for processing passivated emitter rear...
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Ancient Gene Triggers IR Vision Enhancement
As if swimming upstream and dodging bears wasn’t difficult enough, salmon must also switch their vision systems to navigate the long journey from open ocean to inland waters. Scientists have long wondered how freshwater fish and amphibians shift their vision from marine or terrestrial environments — where the light environment is blue-green — to the waters of inland streams...
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