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Photonics Spectra: May 2019

Photonics Spectra
 May 2019


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Custom Optical Coatings for Cinema, Avionics, and LIGO Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) optical components such as filters, beamsplitters, prisms, and mirrors are used in numerous applications, including machine vision, microscopy, and optical test and...
Advanced Imaging for Quantum Materials Research Quantum theory seeks to explain the nature and behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic levels. Such phenomena are elucidated via research that aims to manipulate the state of this...
Single-Beam Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy (MDCS) is a set of laser techniques that nondestructively measures how evolving matter absorbs and emits light. It was first proposed in 1993 to excite...
Photoluminescence Spectroscopy Optimizes Perovskite Quantum Dots Perovskite semiconductors have attracted tremendous attention in recent years because of the rapid rise of perovskite solar cell efficiencies — from less than 10% to more than 20% in less than...
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Consumer AR/VR Headsets Focus on Nontraditional Optics The promise of commercial augmen-ted and virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies seems always to be just around the corner. Nearly three decades have passed since the Sega Corporation announced its Sega...
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Holographic Combiners Improve Head-Up Displays Combiners are semitransparent surfaces used in head-up display (HUD) and augmented reality (AR) systems to overlay an image presented by a projector on top of the viewer’s physical world. The...
EDITORIAL
Everything is in the headset 1838. That was the year when, according to a fascinating AR/VR infographic from History degree.net and reposted to Techrepublic.com, AR got started. In 1838, Charles Wheatstone, a professor of experimental philosophy, invented the stereoscope, a device for viewing images in 3D. Since then, there has been a range of ocular devices for education, entertainment, and business — the kinetoscope,...
TECH PULSE
Microscopic Robots Powered by Light Could Aid Medical Diagnostics Using novel nanofabrication techniques, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University have built micro-robots made from silicon and powered by solar cells. One million...
Light Pulses Transform Mott Insulators Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used light pulses to transform Mott insulators into materials that can conduct electricity without energy loss. Through numerical...
Research Team Discovers How to Create and Control Structural Color Researchers from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have shown how a clear surface covered in transparent droplets and lit with a single...
Visible-Telecom Entangled Photon Pairs Could Support Quantum Communication A photon pair source that can bridge the visible and telecom bands could be useful for transporting quantum communications over optical fibers. However, the optical components that store and process...
Thermally Painted Metasurfaces Yield Perfect Light Absorbers A 3000-year-old metallurgy technique of heating metal to create vibrant colors creates a nanostructured surface that acts as a perfect light absorber, researchers from Case Western Reserve University...
Strain Engineering Enables Precise Placement of Single-Photon Emitters Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have developed a way to directly write quantum light sources, which emit a single photon of light...
With a Few Tweaks, a Near-Perfect Absorber Can Become a Time-Reversed Laser With small adjustments, a near-perfect absorber of electromagnetic waves can be changed into a coherent perfect absorber (CPA), a device that absorbs coherent light and shows near-zero reflectance...
Improving the Stability and Optical Properties of Perovskite Films A new approach to producing all-inorganic perovskite films — the result of a joint research effort by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Shanghai University — could further the development of...
For Quantum Computing, New Hardware Platform Based on 2D Materials To harness the capability of quantum computing, hardware must be developed that can access, measure, and manipulate individual quantum states. In response to this need, researchers at the University...
Collaborators Develop an Ultra Quiet Laser, with Chip-scale Applications Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara and their collaborators at Honeywell, Yale, and Northern Arizona University have developed a chip-scale laser capable of emitting light with a...
INDUSTRY INSIGHT
Collaboration Yields Better Manufacturing Outcomes David Rasmussen is general manager at Palomar Technologies Assembly Services and has more than 30 years of experience in the photonics and microelectronics industries. He holds two patents in the telecommunications industry. The value of light-enabled products and services is estimated to be between $7 and $10 trillion annually, which means the science of light represents roughly 13 percent of...
LIGHT SPEED
Sensuron to Distribute Technobis WDM Systems in North America Sensuron is now the North American distributor of Technobis’ WDM (wavelength-division multiplexing) technology, including the Gator, a state-of-the-art fiber Bragg grating (FBG) measurement system. WDM products are best used for dynamic applications such as strain, temperature, vibration, shape impact, and damage sensing in the aerospace, medical, energy, and automotive sectors. The Gator line of...
Fulham Appoints Industry Expert Antony Corrie President and CEO Commercial specialty lighting and electronics provider Fulham Co. has named Antony Corrie as its new president and CEO and brings with him 25 years of experience in the field of lighting technology.
MACOM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Enter Strategic Collaboration MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. and GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) have entered into a strategic collaboration to ramp MACOM’s innovative Laser Photonic Integrated Circuit (L-PIC) platform using GF’s...
Lumentum and Cambridge Industries Group Form Partnership Lumentum and Cambridge Industries Group have entered into an agreement on a joint venture that will put both companies in the position to compete commercially in the datacom transceiver market....
Microsoft, Facebook Form Co-Packaged Optics Collaborative Two Silicon Valley giants have joined forces to promote open standards that will spur manufacturing and adoption of co-packaged optics.
National Healthcare Photonics Centre Opens in UK The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) in the U.K. has officially opened its state-of-the-art facility that will help develop next-generation light-based health care treatments. Based at NETPark in...
Light Conversion Names New CEO Martynas Barkauskas has been named Light Conversion’s new CEO, succeeding Algirdas Juozapavicius, who has been at the helm of the company since its inception in 1994.
Source Photonics Secures $100M in Funding and Expands Fabs Source Photonics has secured $100 million in funding to support its growing data center and 5G business and to increase the scale of its operations. Planned developments include the creation of a new...
Gooch & Housego Partner on New European Mini Lasercom Transceivers Project The European project ORIONAS (lasercom-on-chip for next-generation, high-speed satellite constellation interconnectivity) has welcomed Gooch & Housego as a partner in the three-year, Horizon 2020...
The Optical Society Awards Prize to Eli Yablonovitch The Optical Society (OSA), the leading global professional association in optics and photonics, has announced Eli Yablonovitch as the winner of its 2019 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize, the...
Sheaumann Laser Receives Manufacturing Grant Sheaumann Laser was recently awarded a $2.35 million grant from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) to grow its production capacity. Sheaumann Laser specializes in the design...
Optoscribe, Sumitomo Electric Pair to Deliver Multicore Fiber Optoscribe, a supplier of 3D glass-based integrated photonics components, and Sumitomo Electric, an optical fiber cable and component manufacturing technology supplier, have formed a strategic...
UTA Engineer Earns NSF CAREER Grant to Develop Bioinspired 3D materials Kyungsuk Yum, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development Program grant to design...
LIGHTER SIDE
Airglow An obscure nocturnal phenomenon prevents the night sky from becoming completely dark. Even if the moon, all artificial lights, and auroras were blotted out, the sky would still emit a soft luminosity all over the globe. This is “airglow,” and it is created by the light of atoms excited by solar UV radiation. Airglow is contained within Earth’s extremely variable ionosphere and...
PRODUCTS
Ultrastable Laser The ORS-Cubic Ultrastable Laser from Menlo Systems GmbH is a compact device based on the rigidly mounted 5-cm cubic cavity developed in cooperation with the National Physical Laboratory with low...
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Explosive Detection Raman Platform The Pendar X10 Raman platform from Pendar Technologies LLC allows for the rapid identification of hazardous chemicals in homemade explosives laboratories or during explosive ordnance disposal (EOD)...
Pendar Technologies LLC
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Onboard Optical Engine The Samtec 56-Gbps PAM4/channel FireFly onboard optical engine from II-VI Inc. features an embedded high-speed, vertical-cavity, surface-emitting laser within the system’s architecture. ...
Coherent Corp.
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Microplate Spectrophotometer The Epoch 2 Microplate Spectrophotometer from BioTek Instruments Inc. features multiple conveniences for performing absorbance measurements. The Epoch 2 includes monochromator-based individual...
BioTek Instruments Inc.
Inertial Measurement Unit The Photonic Gyro Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) from KVH Industries Inc. provides cost and performance advantages for the emerging driverless car market. The photonic chip technology is...
KVH Industries Inc.
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Metal-Coated Substrates Metal-coated substrates for characterizing self-assembled monolayers have been announced by AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO). Gold, silver, and platinum surfaces offer a clean, near atomically flat...
AMS Biotechnology Ltd.
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UV LED The OD-265-001 UV LED from Opto Diode Corp. is a narrow spectral output device designed for robust, long-lifetime use. The device features a total power output of 0.53 to 0.68 mW, with peak...
Opto Diode Corporation
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USB Active Optical Cables USB Active Optical Cables from Cosemi Technologies Inc. are redesigned to support full 10-G bidirectional data for USB 3.1 Gen 2 and backward compatibility to USB 2.0. Reaching any length up to...
Cosemi Technologies Inc.
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Camera Inspection System The Ricoh SC-10 camera inspection system from Stemmer Imaging AG is a human assistance system that improves manual assembly in manufacturing environments. The camera is designed to both provide...
Stemmer Imaging AG
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Narrow Linewidth Lasers 633- and 785-nm wavelength models have been added to the 08-01 Series of narrow linewidth lasers from Cobolt AB for the high-resolution Raman market. The Cobolt 08-NLD 633 nm is a...
Cobolt AB
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Imaging and Visual Measurement System The VideometerLab 4 from Analytik Ltd. is a multispectral imaging and automated visual measurement system designed for fast and accurate determination of surface color, texture, shape, size, and...
Analytik Ltd.
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Time-to-Digital Converter The AS6500 high-resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) from ams AG features CMOS inputs and a compact packaging for use in space- and cost-constrained applications. The device can measure...
ams OSRAM
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Laser-Based Swept Light Source OCTLIGHT APS has developed a laser-based swept light source technology that provides full 3D optical coherence tomography images of the eye. The device produces a full 3D image of every retina...
Octlight ApS
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MWIR Camera Cores FLIR Systems Inc. has announced three Neutrino midwave-IR (MWIR) camera cores, expanding its cooled camera core family for commercial, industrial, and defense OEM and system integrators. The...
Teledyne FLIR Systems Inc.
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Aluminum XY Stage The AU200-100x100 aluminum XY stage from Optimal Engineering Systems Inc. (OES) is a low-profile stage measuring 80 mm high with a compact footprint of 348 × 348 mm. The linear travel of...
Optimal Engineering Systems Inc.
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Polarization Machine Vision Camera The PL-D755MU-POL polarization machine vision camera from Pixelink is built around the Sony IMX250MZR Pregius global shutter CMOS sensor. The 5.1-MP camera takes advantage of on-chip polarizing...
Pixelink
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Touch Flicker Spectrometer The GL Spectis 1.0 Touch Flicker Spectrometer from Saelig Co. Inc. can measure the parameter of light flicker and the range of standard photometric and colorimetric values. The Spectis 1.0...
Saelig Co. Inc.
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Femtosecond Fiber Laser The SOPRANO laser from Cycle GmbH is a fiber laser solution with up to three color outputs for deep tissue imaging in neuroscience. The system can be used as the optimal engine for three-photon...
Cycle GmbH
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Pulsed Laser Diodes The CVN 63-90ECL 905-nm pulsed lasers from OSI Laser Diode Inc. feature enhanced far-field beam patterns and an integrated macro lens in a 9-mm package. Its beam pattern features equivalent...
OSI Laser Diode Inc.
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Micro-Via Drilling System The Geode laser-based micro-via drilling system from Electro Scientific Industries Inc. is designed for high-density interconnects on rigid printed circuit boards. The system combines a...
ESI - Electro Scientific Industries
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Fast-Axis Collimator Lenses Fast-axis collimator (FAC) lenses from LIMO GmbH are designed for all types of diode-pumped laser sources. The devices feature acylindrical surfaces and are manufactured from high-grade glass....
LIMO GmbH
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Microplates The Krystal 2000 microplate range from Porvair Sciences Ltd. obtains luminescence and fluorescence assay readings with high accuracy, repeatability, and sensitivity. Designed to the standard...
Porvair Sciences Ltd.
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OCT Imaging Systems Thorlabs Inc. has expanded its Telesto OCT line to include two complete imaging systems that offer polarization-sensitive detection. The TEL210PSC2 and TEL220PSC2 are polarization-sensitive...
Thorlabs Inc.
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Terahertz Imager The T-SENSE terahertz imager from HÜBNER Photonics is a security solution for postal inspection. The imager uses high-frequency technology to quickly and simply detect concealed objects...
HUBNER Photonics GmbH
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UV-NIR Neutral Density Filters Princeton Instruments Inc. has announced the ND series of UV-NIR neutral density filters from Acton Optics & Coatings. Through a patented UV coating process, broadband performance is...
Teledyne Acton Optics
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Low-Viscosity Epoxy For use in optoelectronic applications, the EB-177 low-viscosity epoxy from EpoxySet Inc. is capable of performing in high temperatures. The EB-177 is rated for continuous use at 250 °C and...
EpoxySet Inc.
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Gas Detection Camera The FLIR GF77 Gas Find IR uncooled thermal camera from FLIR Systems Inc. is designed to detect methane. The hand-held camera offers inspection professionals the features they need to find...
Teledyne FLIR
Laser Material Processing Lens The F-Theta-Ronar 160-mm lens from Qioptiq features a focal length of 160 mm at 515 to 540 nm and 163 mm at 1030 to 1080 nm. The lens offers the shortest focal length of all the Qioptiq...
Qioptiq
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Ultra-Narrow Bandpass Filters Alluxa Inc. has announced 532-nm multicavity ultra-narrow bandpass filters with 0.1-nm bandwidths and OD6 blocking. The filters feature a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 0.1 nm while...
Alluxa
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Machine Vision Lenses FUJIFILM Optical Devices Europe GmbH has announced the CF-ZA-1S series of all-in-one machine vision lenses designed for 1.1-in. sensors and 2.5-µm pixels. The CF-ZA-1S lens series is...
Fujifilm Optical Devices Europe GmbH
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