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Photonics Spectra - March 2018


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Innovations in Lens Measurement Automobile cameras, telescopes, head-mounted displays, laser-focusing heads and other modern photonic devices incorporate high-grade optics that can perform under extreme environmental conditions. The demand for such lenses means they must be reproduced with the utmost accuracy, placing stringent requirements on lens measurement. While the industry has a mature toolset for evaluating rotationally...
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Getting More Out of Telecom Fiber The rising amount of data generated by people and machines around the world travels largely by fiber, with some of it moving thousands of miles in a hop. For some long jumps, new ultralow-loss, large...
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Nano-FTIR Spectroscopy Reveals Material’s True Nature Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) from about 2 to 20 µm is a common analytical tool for characterizing material and useful in a range of applications in analytical chemistry,...
Sensor Balancing Act for UAVs Commercial applications such as crop disease detection, environmental monitoring, geological exploration and infrastructure inspection are prime examples of how the confluence of drones and sensing...
Ytterbium Fiber Amplifiers Set the Mark for Speed and Power Ytterbium fiber laser amplifiers encompass one of the most dynamic areas in femtosecond lasers. Recent advances in power and speed are opening doors in scientific research and materials processing,...
Editorial
An Answer to The Bandwidth Dilemma? Artificial intelligence. Data analytics. Machine Learning. IoT. These megatrends are transforming how we live. And thanks to better fiber, smaller cables and more efficient transceivers, the industry has been able to keep pace with the increasing amount of data flowing through the global fiber optic infrastructure. But these improvements may not be enough. We’re “now approaching...
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Fiber OLEDs Developed For Wearable Displays Researchers have fabricated highly efficient OLEDs on an ultra-thin fiber for use in wearable displays. The weavable OLEDs, which are based on a simple, low-temperature solution process, achieved performance values comparable to OLEDs fabricated on planar substrates. The values obtained for the fiber OLEDs in the areas of efficiency and lifetime indicate that these solution-processed planar OLEDs...
Optically Imaging the Fourth Dimension A visual representation of the fourth dimension has been observed in two independent experiments. The theoretical groundwork for these experiments was laid by researchers at ETH Zürich. In both...
Iridescent Spiders Provide Inspiration for Optics Design Could the courtship habits of a tiny spider provide the basis for a novel design for miniature optics? An international research team studied the unique iridescent signal produced by miniature...
Spectroscopy Instrument to Aid in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Could life exist outside of Earth? All we know for sure is that scientists will keep exploring this question until they have a definitive answer. To that end, a compact spectroscopy instrument has...
Next-Gen Image Sensor Delivers High-Quality, Low-Light Imaging ; A new imaging technology has been developed that can capture and count single photons with resolution as high as one megapixel and as fast as thousands of frames per second. Called the Quanta Image...
Transparent Materials Absorb Light Researchers have demonstrated an optical paradox — they have made a completely transparent material appear perfectly absorbing. The results of their research contradict the idea that materials...
Quantum Optics Lead to Spectroscopy Method for Measuring on FS Timescale Scientists have demonstrated a time-resolved spectroscopy technique that enables the study of very fast processes in samples on the femtosecond (fs) time scale without the need for an fs laser or a...
Doping Quantum Dots Helps Lasers Release Light More Efficiently Doping quantum dots (QDs) with additional electrons has been found to cause the specially designed QDs to produce laser light with less stimulation and less energy loss. By adding extra charge...
Complex States of Light Generated via Metasurface Researchers have designed a method for converting arbitrary spin angular momentum (SAM) states of light into total angular momentum states. This method is characterized by the superposition of...
Optical Solution Addresses Interconnect Bottleneck on Silicon Chips A combination light emitter and detector device that is compatible with silicon could help mitigate communications delays resulting from signal leakage between microchip components. The device is...
2D Material’s High Tunability Could Augment Optoelectronics Applications Research into a 2D material has revealed information about its tunability and band gap, that could help scientists to isolate, enhance and manipulate its most desirable qualities. Potential...
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Luminate Welcomes Inaugural Cohort Having secured $100,0000 each in funding through a rigorous competition held in November by Luminate NY, 10 winners and three runners-up have joined together in downtown Rochester to begin the 6-month accelerator program. Luminate NY, the world’s largest accelerator for optics, photonics and imaging (OPI), is administered by High Tech Rochester and funded by New York State through the...
Plessey to Market Monolithic GaN-on-Silicon MicroLED Display Plessey Semiconductors Ltd., a developer of optoelectronic technology solutions, has announced its commitment to being the first to market with a monolithic microLED-based display based on...
RadTech Announces 2018 Board of Directors RadTech, the association for UV and electron beam (UV+EB) technologies, has announced its new board members. Todd Fayne at Pepsico Inc.; Sunny Ye at the 3M Co.; and Mike Bonner at Saint Clair Systems...
ISP Optics Awarded $5M Lens Contract Optical and IR component manufacturer LightPath Technologies Inc. has announced that its subsidiary ISP Optics Corp. has been awarded a $5 million purchase contract for a variety of IR optical lens...
II-VI, USF Complete First Phase of Thin-Film Partnership Materials and optoelectronic component manufacturer II-VI Inc. has completed the first phase of a joint research program with the University of South Florida (USF) to develop a new technology...
L3 Awarded $150M Night Vision Contract L3 Technologies Inc. has been awarded a $150 million contract from an international country to provide night vision equipment with next-generation accuracy such as L3’s Binocular Night Vision...
Quanergy Opens Dedicated Lidar Production Facility Solid-state lidar sensor developer Quanergy Systems Inc. has opened a new production factory in Sunnyvale, California. The cutting-edge facility produces Quanergy’s patented S3 solid-state...
WPI, Quinsigamond CC to Share $4M Grant for Joint Integrated Photonics Lab Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) have been awarded a $4 million grant by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to create a comprehensive joint photonics...
Zeiss Acquires Majority Stake in Bosello The Zeiss Group will acquire a majority stake in Bosello High Technology SRL, a provider of industrial x-ray solutions, to strengthen its research and quality technology segment. For Zeiss,...
ARPA-E Announces $20M in Funding for 15 Projects The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $20 million in funding for 15 projects that will develop a new class of sensor systems to enable...
Toptica Provides Lasers for Telescope's Adaptive Optics System The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with Toptica Photonics AG for the production of lasers to be used in the observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) adaptive...
Keck Observatory to Update Adaptive Optics on Keck II Telescope The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii for a significant enhancement of the performance of the adaptive optics (AO) system on the...
USF’s Killinger, Keck Made NAI Fellows University of South Florida Physics professor emeritus Dennis Killinger and USF Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation professor Donald Keck have been named by the National Academy of...
Gov. Cuomo Proposes Photonics Attraction Fund During his State of the State address, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a $30 million fund to help the photonics cluster in Rochester. He also endorsed a plan to expand the city's development...
Elbit Awarded $46M NATO Contract Defense technology company Elbit Systems Ltd. has been awarded a follow-on $46 million contract to supply its J-Music Direct Infrared Countermeasures self-protection systems to the North Atlantic...
Comtec to Distribute Anritsu Products Test and measurement solutions provider Anritsu Corp. has signed a distribution agreement with Comtec Cable Accessories Ltd., a provider of components, equipment and services for the...
Yelo Opens 25,000-sq-ft Northern Ireland Facility Yelo Ltd., a photonics equipment manufacturer, has opened its new 25,000-sq-ft facility in Northern Ireland. Invest Northern Ireland, the regional’s economic development agency, offered Yelo...
Fiber Optics Special Section
Expert Commentary: Fiber Optics at the Core of Connectivity In the last 10 years, the combination of ever-increasing computational power and readily available bandwidth has stimulated advances in data science that have greatly increased the value of data, leading to a data revolution. The ubiquity of concepts such as artificial intelligence, big data, data analytics, machine learning and the Internet of Things are enabled by the vast computational...
Fiber Optic Cables Find Use as Seismic Sensors The decade that gave us the Sony PlayStation also gave us dark fiber — an excess of optical fiber cables installed underground, mostly in the 1990s, before advances in data transmission reduced...
Southampton's ORC to Lead £6.1M Fiber Optic Program The University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC) is set to lead a £6.1 million ($7.3 million) Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)-funded...
Lighter Side
Image Sensor Imperfection Thwarts Cybercriminals’ Best Efforts The digital cameras in smartphones are built to be identical for each model of phone. However, manufacturing imperfections create tiny variations in each camera’s image sensors. These imperfections could prevent identity theft more safely than Face ID and other biometrics. Because of the inhomogeneity of silicon wafers and pixel dimensional imperfections, image sensors have nonuniform...
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Wide Incidence Angle Mirror The wide incidence angle mirror from II-VI Inc. is designed for lidar applications. The mirrors enable reflected laser beams within lidar systems to maintain optical powers with a very high...
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Professional LEDs The 5630X series of LEDs from Everlight Electronics Co. Ltd. features a luminous efficiency up to 228 lm/W that meets the high-luminance requirements of professional commercial and industrial...
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Robotic Perception System The AE100 robotic perception system from AEye Inc. is designed for autonomous vehicle, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and mobility markets. The AE100 is a solid-state, cost-optimized...
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Illumination Sources LaserLight illumination sources from SLD Laser deliver >10× the luminance of LEDs for use in automotive lighting performance, safety and styling. LaserLight sources provide safe,...
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Fuel Analyzer The MINISCAN IR Vision high-speed, compact mid-Fourier transform IR spectroscopy (FTIR) fuel analyzer from Grabner Instruments Messtechnik GmbH and Ametek Inc. is designed for comprehensive,...
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Scan Camera The Apex AP-3200T-USB scan camera from JAI AS is a three-CMOS prism-based industrial RGB area scan camera providing high color fidelity and spatial precision. The camera is built around three...
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Silicone Immersion Objectives Olympus Super Apochromatic Objectives from Edmund Optics Inc. are silicone immersion objectives for use in a wide variety of digital imaging applications. Olympus Super Apochromatic Objectives...
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UAV Imager The FireflEYE S185 imager from Bodkin Design & Engineering LLC is designed for unmanned aerial vehicles for precision agriculture. Snapshot hyperspectral technology allows spectral and...
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Positioning Stages The V-551 family of ultraprecision positioning stages from Physik Instrumente LP are available with 0.2-nm resolution linear encoders, ideal for high-end alignment, scanning and automation...
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Triple Monochromators The triple monochromator from McPherson Inc. is ideal for Raman, photoluminescence and Thomson-scattering measurements. The triple configuration allows users to create a bandpass notch of...
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SWIR Camera The A6260sc SWIR camera from Flir Systems Inc. incorporates a proprietary high-resolution detector to offer improved sensitivity and linearity across the full dynamic range, making it ideal for...
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Optomechanical Software The TracePro 7.8.3 optomechanical software from Lambda Research Corp. enhances optical analysis and streamline the prototype-to-manufacturing process by combining an intuitive 3D CAD interface,...
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Eddy Current Measurement The Digital Differential Impedance Transducer (DDT) from Kaman Precision Products Inc. is an eddy current measurement system. The DDIT is designed to provide a digital interface for high-speed...
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Red Laser Diodes The Optoelectronics Co. has announced two new red laser diodes from Ushio Opto Semiconductors Inc. that focus on laser projection and laser television. The HL63283HD is a visible wavelength...
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Compact Smart Spectrometers The SP series of compact smart spectrometers with integrated CCD linear array detectors from Spectrolight Inc. provide a turnkey solution for measurement of light source behavior, analytical samples...
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Tunable Lasers The TiSon GSB Titan Sapphire laser line from Power Technology Inc. are high-energy, broadly tunable lasers for the biosciences industries including photoacoustic imaging. The lasers are...
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OLED Microdisplay The Sony ECX335B Organic Light-Emitting Diode Microdisplay from Framos Technologies Inc. is a small-sized, high-resolution solution well-suited for head-mounted devices enabling virtual and augmented...
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Ultrafast Laser The Chameleon Discovery laser with total power control from Coherent Inc. is a one-box turnkey laser for multiphoton excitation microscopy to include built-in, high-speed power modulation. The...
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Visible Wavelength Cameras New Imaging Technologies (NIT) has announced the NSC1003 MC1003-1GB or C and the WVGA NSC1104 MC1104-PGB, two new 1.3-MP Smart Magic camera products in the visible wavelength range. The...
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Miniature Spectrometer The Ocean FX miniature spectrometer from Ocean Optics Inc. offers high-sensitivity CMOS detector performance, acquisition speed of up to 4500 scans/s and integration times as low as 10 µs. ...
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2.1-MP Sensor The STARVIS IMX327 sensor from Sony Semiconductors and announced by Framos GmbH is a 2.1-MP sensor with a ½.8-in. optical format. With a 1920 × 1080-pixel array utilizing a...
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