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Photonics Spectra - March 2017
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CAOS Smart Camera Captures Targets in Extreme Contrast Scenarios
Imaging electromagnetic radiation is of fundamental importance to a number of fields, from medicine and the biological sciences, to security and defense. Often, demanding contrast imaging scenarios arise that call for a high instantaneous linear dynamic range (HDR) — in certain cases reaching 190 decibels (dB) — and the ability to achieve extremely low interpixel crosstalk. Other...
Optical Metrology Techniques Harness Structured Light Beams
As a result of technological advances in recent years, researchers have at their disposal devices capable of tailoring — with almost unlimited freedom — the shape of beams of light....
New 4G Optics Technology Extends Limits to the Extremes
From the advent of the candle to the emergence the first laser diode, there have been numerous advances in light sources. After all, all materials radiate when energized one way or another. Optics,...
Compact UVC Laser Shows Promise for Biomedical and Environmental Sensing
Advances in sensor technologies and the more widespread deployment of sensors are continually improving safety, quality of life and industrial productivity. Many of the most reliable chemical,...
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For Optical Fiber, More Bandwidth Looms
The world’s data travels largely by fiber, with more being moved than ever before. San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant Cisco Systems forecasts that data traffic will grow 22 percent a year from...
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Smart Cameras, Smart Sensors, Smart Cities
Some have hailed the smart city trend as the most transformative thing to happen to the metropolis since urban renewal a half century ago. What started as a utopian dream of the future is inching toward reality in many cities including Singapore, Barcelona and London, all of which have made strides in the creative use of technology for smart traffic management, power metering and real-time...
Tech Pulse
Self-Assembling Particles Could Produce Lower Cost LEDs
Self-assembling nanoscale perovskite — crystalline substances — particles could be a more efficient and lower-cost alternative material for LEDs.
Squeezing Light Cools Microscopic Drum Below Quantum Limit
Using a special circuit to generate microwave photons stripped of intensity fluctuations, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cooled a mechanical object to a...
Compact Lasers Recreate Conditions Inside Stars
With compact lasers that use ultra-short laser pulses irradiating arrays of aligned nanowires, scientists are recreating the extreme conditions found in stars. Previously, this was only possible with...
ASU Spectrometer to Fly on NASA Asteroid Mission
A spectrometer developed by Arizona State University will fly onboard a NASA mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission has been chosen under the agency's Discovery Program, a...
Robot with a Human Touch
A soft robot has been created that can feel its surroundings internally, much like humans do. Using stretchable optical waveguides as curvature, elongation and force sensors in a soft robotic hand,...
Tunneling Could Be Key to Modulating Bandwidth of Transistor Laser
Two recent studies could impact the fundamental modulation bandwidth of the transistor laser and increase its capacity for data transfer in optical and 5G wireless communications. Electrical...
Hyperspectral Imaging System Could Advance Remote Sensing
Advances in spectroscopy imaging will be applied to the development of a hyperspectral/ultraspectral imaging system that will be used for remote sensing. The imaging system incorporates a novel...
Optical Circulator Could Route Quantum Data in Integrated Optical Circuits
An advance in optical signal processing uses a fiber-integrated quantum optical circulator, operated by a single atom, to control the direction of light. The nonreciprocal behavior of the circulator...
Nanocrystal can Transform Light to Visible Spectrum
A novel nanocrystal, 500 times smaller than a human hair, is capable of changing the intensity, shape and color of light. Developed by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU), the...
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Renishaw Expands, Moves Into New U.S. Facility
Precision measurement technology developer Renishaw Inc. is readying for growth as it begins to move into its new 133,000-ft2 office, warehouse and U.S. headquarters. The two-story facility will include space for product development, testing, warehousing and distribution. It will also house the new U.S. Additive Manufacturing Solutions Center, part of Renishaw’s network of global solutions...
MKS' Ophir Business Unit Named Utah Manufacturer of the Year
The Ophir Business Unit, part of the Light and Motion Division of MKS Instruments, has been named the 2016 Utah Manufacturer of the Year for "Outstanding Performance in Operational Excellence,...
OPIE, OPIC Advance Photonics in Japan
Japan’s largest trade show for Optics and Photonics International Exhibition 2017(OPIE2017) — including the Optics and Photonics International Congress 2017(OPIC2017) — brings together academia and...
Laser Zentrum Hannover, Apodius Laser Repair Fiber-Reinforced Plastics
Laser Zentrum Hannover EV and Apodius GmbH are collaborating on a project to repair fiber-reinforced plastics by combining a measuring device for fiber layer orientation with a laser-based repair...
ADB Safegate Sweden Wins Photonics Prize
Airport safety technology developer ADB Safegate Sweden AB has been awarded the optics and photonics prize presented annually by PhotonicSweden to the best Swedish company in the industry. ADB...
DARPA’s TUNA Program Enters Final Phase of Development
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has completed the initial phase of its Tactical Undersea Network Architecture (TUNA) program, intended to...
NYS Bolsters Photonics Start-Ups
New York State is establishing a $10 million, multi-year Photonics Venture Challenge in Rochester. The business competition aims to support start-up companies that commercialize these technologies...
Invenios Acquires Varioptic
Micro-fabrication foundry Invenios LLC has acquired Varioptic, a liquid-lens developing business unit of Parrot Drones SAS, for an undisclosed amount. “We are very happy to have completed the...
RhySearch to Receive Ion Beam Sputtering System with Optical Monitor System
RhySearch, the Center for Research and Innovation in the Alpine Rhine Valley, will receive its first SPECTOR Ion Beam Sputtering system coupled with the Quest Optical Monitor System from Veeco...
Space Photonics Receives Patent for Free Space Laser Communications
Space-qualified optics developer Space Photonics Inc. has received its seventh patent in the technology sector that includes free space laser communications. The new patent, titled...
Univ. of Pitt, Ansys Receive NASA Grant
Additive manufacturing (AM) researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering and simulation software company Ansys Inc. are among 13 university-led proposals to capture an...
Luster LightTech Named Chinese Distributor of nLight Fibers
Semiconductor, laser and fiber manufacturer nLight Corp. has appointed Luster LightTech Group as its distributor in China. Luster LightTech will provide sales and support for nLight’s active...
Federal Reserve Security Places LaserMax Order
Laser gun sight manufacturer LaserMax Inc. has received an order from the U.S. 4th District Federal Reserve Security Force for its Guide Rod Lasers used in the security-force-issued Glock G17 and G19...
Adaptive Reuse Project Transforms With Lasers
A church in Scottsdale is being renovated and turned into commercial office and retail space with help from a 3D laser scanner. The church, located in the heart of Old Town, has high ceilings,...
LightPath Acquires ISP Optics
Optical and infrared component developer LightPath Technologies Inc. has acquired infrared component developer ISP Optics Corp. for $18 million, $12 million of which will be payable in cash....
Asia-Pacific Special Section
Asia-Pacific Eyes Photonics Market Growth
The global photonics market will continue its fervent growth in the coming years, according to a number of reports, as technology advances industrywide. Progressing the most is the telecommunications sector, which is expected to become the largest end-use industry for photonics because of rising demand for fiber optics components and systems. The manufacturing sector is booming, too, as lasers...
Lighter Side
Lidar Yields Clues into Native American History
Archaeologists have been using lidar to advance investigations of the past, primarily in areas where there were known large-scale civilizations in dense forested settings, such as Mayan areas in Central America and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. For smaller archaeological explorations, most surveys are not as sophisticated and the brunt of the work has to be done on foot. In northern Michigan, for...
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Ultra-Black Surface Coating
The Vantablack S-VIS ultra-black surface coating technology from Surrey NanoSystems Ltd. is being offered by Santa Barbara Infrared Inc., improving IR emissivity in the midwave-IR (MWIR) and longwave-IR (LWIR) spectral wavelengths. Vantablack is the world’s blackest surface coating material for the UV to far-IR spectrum. It employs an innovative nanomaterial structure that absorbs...
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Circular Polarizer Filter
American Polarizers Inc. has announced a new circular polarizer filter with a 50 percent transmission level. Whereas most circular polarizers have maximum transmission levels of around 42...
American Polarizers Inc.
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High-Power Laser Modules
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Beamsplitter
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Optical Fault Isolation Tool
The Meridian 7 optical fault isolation tool from Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is designed to provide the resolution needed for nondestructive localization of electrical faults at sub-10-nm nodes. ...
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10-kW Laser Optics
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Photoacoustic Product
The Phocus OEM from Opotek Inc. is the newest addition to the Phocus family line of products designed for photoacoustic applications. The Phocus OEM is a mobile unit that incorporates all the...
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Acrylic Longpass Filters
Midwest Optical Systems Inc. has announced acrylic longpass filters to shield lenses and lighting from damage or to economically control the wavelength emission in large area, broad spectrum light...
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Hexapods
The HXP200 series of hexapods from Newport Corp. can position loads up to 50 kg on six axes with precision, speed and accuracy. The HXP200 features a ±59-mm travel range, an 81-mm/s...
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NIR Spectroradiometer
The SR-6500 NIR spectroradiometer from Spectral Evolution covers the UV/VIS/NIR range from 350 to 2500 nm. The device features ultra-high resolution and very stable performance with three high...
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Dispensing System
The preeflow eco-duo330 from Intertronics is designed for micro-dosing two component systems, providing dosages as small as 0.2 to 32 ml/min with complete repeatability, precisely mixed and with...
Intertronics
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Time-of-Flight Sensor
The ELISA 3DRanger from Heptagon Micro-Optics Pte Ltd. is a 5-m Time-of-Flight smart sensor. When integrated with a smartphone camera, ELISA enables new applications like a virtual measuring...
Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. Ltd.
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Benchtop Laser System
The EasyJewel bench-top laser system from Rofin-Baasel Lasertech GmbH & Co. KG and Coherent Inc. is designed for marking and engraving tasks. The system also cuts metal sheets of up to a...
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Measurement System
The near eye display (NED) Measurement System from Gamma Scientific is intended to aid manufacturers of head-mount and heads-up displays for entertainment, medical, avionics and military applications...
Gamma Scientific
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Thermal Imaging Technique
The UltraMax thermal imaging technique from Flir Systems Inc. combines the information from multiple original thermal images into an image with higher resolution and less noise. UltraMax images...
Teledyne FLIR
Optical to Electrical Converter
The o2e direct-current-coupled optical to electrical converter module from Coherent Solutions has a bandwidth of 25 GHz. The amplified output of o2e makes it a perfect match for real-time...
Quantifi Photonics Ltd.
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Signal Quality Analyzer
The MP1800A Signal Quality Analyzer from Anritsu Corp. supports the newest USB 3.1 Gen2 receiver test standards. The USB 3.1 Receiver Test Solution uses the G0373A Adapter and MX183000A...
Anritsu Co.
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