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Photonics Spectra - June 2020


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Imaging Goes 4D 3D imaging has taken off, with applications in cellphones, cars, robots, and more. Now, companies and researchers are looking to what’s next: 4D. While 3D imaging captures information about width, height, and depth (x, y, and z), 4D imaging adds another dimension and incorporates time, velocity, or light-matter interactions. Going 4D makes economic sense; the pulses that leave a laser system are...
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Room-Temperature Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers The terahertz (THz) spectral range between the infrared and microwave has long been recognized as an unexploited range of frequency bands. It has considerable potential for application in numerous...
Noncontact Metrology for Aspherical Lenses Freeform and aspheric optics have become popular because they provide better performance than traditional optics and can do so with fewer optical elements. The downside of the higher performance is...
Developing a New Class of Electro-Optic On-Fiber Devices To take advantage of 5G technology, networks must be capable of moving huge amounts of data at unimaginable speeds and extremely broad bandwidth. 5G networks should enable downloads at a rate of more...
OLED Technology Gives Displays New Flexibility For generations, televisions were furniture — bulky appliances that were nearly impossible to ignore, even when turned off. But at this past January’s Consumer Electronics Show, LG...
Editorial
Postcolonial Love Poem: The future as a matrix of today’s choices Poet and former professional basketball player Natalie Diaz is one of my favorite writers. According to The Poetry Foundation website, she was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, Calif., and once directed a language revitalization program for the last speakers of Mojave. Her new book is titled Postcolonial Love Poem, and though I haven’t read it yet, I have read a few...
Tech Pulse
Photon-counting Camera Captures 3D Images with Record Speed, Resolution A megapixel camera, based on time-gated, single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensors, has been developed at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The camera can...
ESA Declares CHEOPS Space Telescope Ready for Operation The CHEOPS space telescope was declared ready for space exploration by the European Space Agency (ESA) late last month and has begun collecting observations of known exoplanet-hosting stars. The...
Nanosize Tin ‘Bubbles’ Could Provide Low-Cost Way to Generate EUV Light Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have generated low-cost extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light by creating tin thin-film spheres using a polymer electrolyte “soap...
Electronic Cooling Technology Enables Miniaturization of Quantum Computers Researchers at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have successfully demonstrated a new electronic refrigeration technology that can enable major leaps in the development of quantum computers....
Research Shows How Artificial Light Affects Arctic Fish Counts University of Delaware College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment professor Jonathan Cohen has co-written a new study that looks at how artificial light during the polar night disrupts Arctic fish and...
Researchers Demonstrate Missing Link for the Quantum Internet Harvard and MIT researchers have found a way to correct for signal loss in quantum computing with a prototype quantum node that can catch, store, and entangle bits of quantum information. A quantum...
Dancing Electrons Solve Long-Standing Puzzle of Oldest Magnetic Material An international team of experimental and theoretical researchers has discovered fingerprints of the quasiparticles that drive the phase transformation in magnetite, according to a paper published...
Photonic Crystal Emits Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation at Optical Wavelengths Since the late 19th century, scientists have understood that, when heated, all materials emit light in a predictable spectrum of wavelengths. But a material that appears to exceed the limits set by...
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FRAMOS Opens Branch in Croatia FRAMOS will open a new branch office in Zagreb, Croatia, on May 4. The office is in addition to its existing research, development, and production facility in Cakovec. The expansion will allow for...
MVTec Opens Subsidiary in China MVTec Software GmbH has opened a branch near Shanghai, China. The company has been operating in the Chinese machine vision market for more than 10 years. It intends to increase its presence within...
Olympus Objectives Named this Year's Gold Edison Award Winner Olympus Corp.'s X Line objectives have received a 2020 Gold Edison Award in the Applied Technology category and Optical & Imaging Technologies subcategory. The Edison Award honors excellence in...
SPIE Will Launch New Journal of Optical Microsystems; JM3 to Be Renamed SPIE has announced the launch of a new Gold Open Access journal, the Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM), which starting in January will publish cutting-edge research of optical and photonic...
SPIE, OSA, IEEE Fund New Photonics Program for Students To support the development of future photonics professionals, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society, the International Society for Optics and Photonics...
Partners to Boost European Supply of Space-Qualified Laser Crystals Laser Zentrum Hannover eV (LZH) will partner with Optomaterials srl in Italy and Altechna Coatings UAB in Lithuania to develop a European supply chain for space-qualified, high-performance laser...
Coherent Creates Center of Excellence in Finland for Fiber Lasers Coherent Inc. has expanded its fiber laser operation in Tampere, Finland, designating the facility as a “Center of Excellence for Fiber Lasers.” Fiber lasers have been produced at the...
Olympus Announces Light Microscopy Image Awards Olympus has announced the winners of its first Global Image of the Year Life Science Microscopy Award. The winning image, captured by Ainara Pintor of Spain using a superresolution confocal...
COVID-19 News
Quick Results Possible with U-M's Lab-on-a-Chip Antibody Test COVID-19 antibody testing could be possible with a microfluidic device invented at the University of Michigan (U-M) and developed by U-M startup Optofluidic Bioassay. The new system is believed to be...
Plasmonic Biosensor Uses Thermal and Optical Methods to Detect Coronavirus Research labs that measure and analyze airborne pollutants have a new focus — to develop a sensor that can quickly and reliably detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Most laboratories use a molecular...
Deep-UV LEDs Could Help Eliminate Coronavirus from Surfaces Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara) are developing ultraviolet (UV) LEDs for decontaminating surfaces and potentially air and water that have come in contact...
Integrated Optical System Helps Contain COVID-19 in Airports Will automated infection tracking become standard procedure in airports around the world? Real-time thermal monitoring combined with biometric data that could be immediately extracted and analyzed...
BIOLASE Partners with MEKICS to Respond to Pandemic Medical device manufacturer BIOLASE Inc. announced that it expects to join the fight against COVID-19 by teaming up with MEKICS Co. Ltd, an intensive care unit equipment manufacturer, to supply...
B-Con Shifts Workforce to Make Shields for Health Care Personnel B-Con Engineering Inc., an optics manufacturing company, is shifting its manufacturing focus to make face shields for medical staff and facilities. The company has previously designed and built...
Protective Coating Could Destroy COVID-19 Virus on Hospital Masks The masks that health care workers wear to protect them from the virus that causes COVID-19 block the virus before it reaches their faces, but do not destroy it. To further protect doctors, nurses,...
Power Technology Provides Sanitizer for Employees and Families Power Technology Inc., a designer and manufacturer of laser products, made the recent decision to use supplies on hand to create hand sanitizer for employees and their families to combat the spread...
Edmund Optics Teams Up with MiCo BioMed on COVID-19 Diagnostics Edmund Optics and MiCo BioMed Co. Ltd. have collaborated on a highly sensitive molecular diagnostic device, the VERI-Q PCR 316, that is capable of detecting COVID-19 within an hour. The device uses...
BIO-key to Donate Portion of Scanner Sales to Support Pandemic Response BIO-key International, Inc. will donate to the American Red Cross a portion of the proceeds from the sale of its compact finger scanners, over the balance of 2020. The donations will be designated to...
3 Questions
3 Questions with Badri Younes Earlier this year, NASA announced it was preparing to hand off to the private sector much of the work of communicating with spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit. To find out a little more about the...
3 Questions with Katsuhiko Kawazoe Photonics Spectra spoke with Katsuhiko Kawazoe, president and chairperson of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN GF). Kawazoe is also senior vice president and head of...
LASER-TEC College Profile
Springfield Technical Community College Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) offers a one-year Optics and Photonics Technology certificate and a two-year Optics and Photonics Technology Associate of Science degree. The programs give engineering technicians knowledge of lasers and optics, and provide the electronics skills needed to design, test, and maintain complex optical and photonic systems. Graduates work side by side...
Lighter Side
The evolving aesthetics of privacy Cameras are everywhere. They are in our pockets, on our computers, on traffic lights, and on the sides of and inside buildings. Surveillance, for better or worse, is becoming a part of our everyday lives and raises myriad philosophical, ethical, and personal privacy questions. In response to these increasing levels of surveillance, digital rights activists and artists have come up with unique...
Products
Laser Combiner The MatchBox Combiner from Integrated Optics UAB is a four-wavelength laser combiner with five output options. The laser unit is designed as an OEM-dedicated electro-optics unit, which can be directly connected to a control mainboard and power supply of an instrument. The laser/detector unit provides high compactness and functionality, making time-to-market and mass production of...
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Laboratory Pump Systems The ECODRY series of low-noise, oil-free pump systems from Leybold GmbH offers a clean, silent, compact, and low-maintenance vacuum for use in analytical or research laboratories. The ECODRY...
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Waveguide Transmission Components Waveguide transmission components from Fairview Microwave consist of bends, twists, and straight sections with high frequency ranges from 90 to 220 GHz in three waveguide bands. Waveguide sizes...
Fairview Microwave
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IR Flood Illuminator The Merano Hybrid IR Flood Illuminator from ams AG integrates all the electrical and optical components of IR flood illuminator and a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) driver into a...
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Sterilizing UVC LEDs The ELUC3535NUB series of sterilizing UVC LEDs from Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd. treats medical needs and purifies water and air. Using epitaxial and flip chips on the sapphire substrate, the...
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Time-of-Flight Module The Helios™ Flex 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) Module from LUCID Vision Labs Inc. is a robust, pre-calibrated system that can be integrated into embedded platforms for industrial and robotics...
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Thermal Condition Monitor The K6PM Thermal Condition Monitor from Omron Automation Americas provides continuous, remote thermal monitoring of electrical panels and other components. The system lowers the time and cost...
Omron Automation
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Liquid Chromatograph The LC6000 Liquid Chromatograph from SCION Instruments Ltd. offers an array of automation options for workflow optimization in the laboratory. Key features include high gradient performance,...
Scion Instruments
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Iris Scanning System The IDentity-1 Iris Scanning System from Videology Imaging Solutions Inc. is a 5-MP USB 3.0 acquisition solution delivering ISO/IEC 19794-6 iris compliant images to a host PC for iris enrollment and...
Videology Industrial-Grade Cameras
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Spectral Sensor The NanoQuest spectral sensor from Ocean Insight Inc. is a microelectromechanical-based, Fourier-transform IR spectrometer. Designed for the qualification and quantification of materials from...
Ocean Optics - Part of Ocean Insight
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Spectrometer The MicroNIR PAT-Ux from VIAVI Solutions is an ultra-compact, high-performance miniature NIR spectrometer for advanced material analysis. Enabling real-time process monitoring of drying,...
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Raman Microscope The LabRAM Soleil™ from HORIBA Scientific Inc. is a multimodal Raman microscope designed for UV-VIS-NIR imaging. The system features ultrafast imaging and advanced automation abilities...
HORIBA
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InP Lasers High-speed InP electro-absorption modulated lasers (EML) have been announced by II-VI Inc. for datacenters and 5G optical access infrastructure. The InP component portfolio includes Fabry-Perot...
Coherent Corp.
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Optical Mount Flipper The MMF.sd optical mount flipper from Siskiyou Corp. is a motorized platform that enables optical components to be rapidly moved in and out of a free space beam path on an optical table or when...
Siskiyou Corp.
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Laser Modules The LCW/SCW series of high-power laser modules from OSI Laser Diode Inc. features wider wavelength ranges from 850 to 1650 nm for free-space applications. For pulsed- or continuous-wave...
OSI Laser Diode Inc.
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Machine Vision Inspection System The INSPEKTO S70 machine vision inspection system from INSPEKTO is a standalone, self-learning, and self-adjusting device. Powered by Plug & Play technology, the INSPEKTO S70 is an...
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Area Scanner The RS-SQUARED Area Scanner from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence is designed for the Absolute Arm portable measuring arm. Crafted for the high-speed scanning of simple shapes and surfaces,...
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
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Holotomographic Microscope The HT-1S holotomographic microscope from Tomocube Inc. delivers quantitative, nanoscale, real-time, 3D images of individual living cells quickly and simply without sample preparation. The...
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Augmented Reality Display The PilotVision™ augmented reality display from SA Photonics Inc. is a headset-mounted system designed for commercial aviation. The system provides situational awareness via...
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Portable Mining Spectrometers The oreXpress™, oreXplorer™, and oreXpert™ field portable spectrometers from Spectral Evolution Inc. provide real-time mineral identification and analysis in mining exploration. ...
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Optical Comparator The HB400 Benchtop Optical Comparator from the L.S. Starrett Co. features expanded X-axis travel for the measurement of larger parts on its workstage. Available with optical edge detection, the...
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