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Photonics Spectra - January 2018
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Reflections on a Storied Career
For 18 years, Eugene Arthurs, Ph.D., has served at the helm of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. During that time, SPIE saw its membership ranks expand, launched seven new...
Evolution of the Supercontinuum Light Source
For many applications, coherent light at a single frequency is more than adequate. But having a light source that combines the properties of a laser with the broad bandwidth of an incandescent bulb...
Optics Transforming AR, Wearables and Beyond
The sea change of optics usually moves gradually, but today we are on the precipice of rapid change. As in the past, optics continues its coupling with other nonoptical technologies — fabless...
Breakthrough in Fabricating Active-Matrix GaN Microdisplays
The growing interest in wearable devices has highlighted the need for high-performance microdisplays. Such displays are based on technologies that include reflective or transmissive liquid crystal...
Packing More Performance Into Smaller Spectrometers
From food safety and manufacturing efficiency, to environmental testing and medical diagnosis, optical spectroscopy is already an indispensable tool across several industries. Today, thanks to...
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New Laser Technologies Displacing Old
For some CO2 laser applications, the end is at hand, with fiber lasers having almost totally replaced the older technology. Another shift currently brewing is due to the arrival of high-power diode...
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Hotbed of Photonics
It’s been quite a run for SPIE’s Eugene Arthurs. At the helm of SPIE for 18 years, Arthurs is stepping down, having witnessed unprecedented expansion of the photonics industry during his tenure. Consider this: The year he started — 1999 — the photonics industry was synonymous with laser companies in Silicon Valley. Not so today. Household names Google, Microsoft, Apple and...
Tech Pulse
Single-Nanoparticle Maps Pave the Way for Better, Safer Nanotechnology
A method that combines electron microscopy and optical microscopy to map individual nanoparticle responses in different situations and contexts could pave the way for better nanomaterials and safer nanotechnology. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the Technical University of Denmark developed the method and have discovered why different polycrystalline nanoparticles...
Single Photon Reveals Quantum Entanglement of 16 Million Atoms
Scientists have demonstrated entanglement between 16 million atoms in a crystal crossed by a single photon, reinforcing the quantum theory that entanglement can persist in macroscopic physical...
Missing Atoms Produce Luminescence in Perovskite Crystal
Perovskites are known to have remarkable optical and electronic properties. Perovskites with the general formula ABX3, and particularly the perovskite methylammonium lead trihalide, show great...
Advances in Aerial Thermography Could Transform Archeological Methods
Today's radiometric thermal cameras, coupled with small, inexpensive drones controlled by a smartphone or tablet, have made aerial thermography more accurate, comprehensive and accessible than...
Converting Light to Sound Waves Leads to Hybrid Chip for Data Transfer
Researchers have demonstrated a way to transfer optical information coherently to an acoustic hypersound wave on a photonic microchip. Optical information is extracted using a reverse process. A...
Physicists Identify Optimum Conditions for Laser Plasma Acceleration
Laser plasma acceleration, which has a smaller footprint and higher peak currents than conventional electron accelerators, could be the basis for the next generation of compact light sources. To make...
Doppler Lidar Could Aid Weather Forecasting, Aircraft Safety
A dual-frequency direct detection Doppler LiDAR system could offer a simplified yet robust way to accurately measure wind speed. The detailed, real-time wind measurements provided by the system could...
Metasurface-Coated Waveguides Reduce Crosstalk
Engineers have developed a conformal metasurface coating that can simultaneously control diverse optical properties of dielectric waveguides, including mode confinement, polarization, scattering...
CQDs Boost Photocatalytic Activity for Environmental, Energy Use
A novel approach to carbon quantum dot (CQD) use focuses on the research and design of CQD-modified photocatalysts, specifically on the introduction of CQDs into Bi2WO6 photocatalysts. When tested,...
Plasmonics Key to Photon Upconversion
A method to efficiently upconvert light combines plasmonic metals and semiconducting quantum wells to boost wavelength frequency. The novel photon upconversion technique is mediated by hot carriers...
Photoswitch Chemistry Creates 3D Shapes From Light
A novel technology uses a special class of photoactivatable molecules and digital light processing (DLP) to construct light shapes into animated structures that have volume and are viewable from 360...
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Laser World of Photonics China 2018 returns to Shanghai in March
Laser World of Photonics China — the biggest event for the Asian laser, optics and photonics industries — will be held March 14 to 16 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. More...
Lighting Manufacturer Ushio Opens New Poland Facility
Lighting manufacturer Ushio Poland has opened a new facility in Pass with a production area of 5,000 sq m, more than double the size of its previous production space. The facility houses two...
ORNL Research Teams Receive $10.5M to Advance Quantum Computing
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has awarded two research teams, each headed by a member of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Quantum Information Science Group, $10.5...
OSA Announces Honorary Members
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced its 2017 Honorary Members. The recipients are David Jeffrey Wineland, 2012 Physics Nobel Laureate at the University of Oregon, and Amnon Yariv at California...
Bristol Instruments Moves to New Headquarters
Precision instrument developer Bristol Instruments Inc. has relocated to a 20,000 sq-ft facility to expand its production and R&D laboratory space. The new headquarters aims to better accommodate...
Lightning Awards 'Luminate' Rochester
Luminate — the world’s largest optics, photonics and imaging (OPI) accelerator focused on advancing next-generation OPI-enabled companies — announced at their Luminate Lightning...
Infinera Announces Capacity Milestones
Intelligent transport network provider Infinera Corp. has announced development of technologies that deliver the highest possible capacity on a single wavelength for varied distances, helping...
Winzer Awarded 2018 John Tyndall Award
The Optical Society (OSA) and the IEEE Photonics Society have awarded Peter Winzer of Nokia Bell Labs the 2018 John Tyndall Award. Winzer is recognized for his contributions to understanding and...
Hübner to Distribute Azur Light Products
Imaging tool provider Hübner Photonics has been appointed by fiber laser developer Azur Light Systems to distribute their products in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Nordics. Hübner...
Six-Telescope Beam Instrument Shows Results in IR Interferometry, Astronomy
MIRC-X, the six-telescope beam combination instrument developed by the University of Exeter and the University of Michigan, together with C-RED One, a fast, low-noise, IR camera from First Light...
Three INRS Professors Named OSA Senior Members
Three professors from the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre in Montreal have been named senior members of the Optical Society (OSA) in recognition...
Hexagon Opens Solution Facility
Metrology technology developer Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence North America has launched a new strategic business unit dedicated to smart factory systems for advanced manufacturing. The team will...
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Prism Awards Honor Industry’s Top Innovators
What do the world’s smallest FTIR spectrometer, a lidar system for autonomous vehicles, and a smartphone add-on sensor for noncontact bioimaging have in common? The 2018 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation. These products are among 30 finalists for the awards that recognize the industry’s top innovations and groundbreaking technologies. Co-sponsored annually by SPIE and Photonics...
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THz Imaging Uncovers Secrets of 17th-Century Masterpiece
There has long been an air of mystery surrounding paintings created prior to the 18th century and how the artists prepared their canvases, applied undercoats and eventually created their masterpieces. Researchers from Georgia Tech-Lorraine, a campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Metz, France, are using 21st-century signal processing via time-domain terahertz (THz) techniques to...
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