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Photonics Spectra: November 2019

Photonics Spectra
 November 2019


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From IR to THz, Space Telescopes Get Detector Array Upgrades August 25 marked the Spitzer Space Telescope’s “sweet 16.” Launched in 2003 with a planned primary mission of 2.5 to 5 years, the infrared observatory — the last of NASA’s Great Observatories to take flight — far outlasted its initial mandate, depleting its store of liquid helium coolant and transitioning into a “warm mission” in 2009. In their...
Motion Control Solutions for High-Precision, Large-Field Laser Micromachining High-precision, high-throughput laser micromachining typically requires galvo scan heads with a short focal length, which in turn produces a small image field, or field of view (FOV). However, a...
High-Speed 3D Inspection with Liquid Lenses The concept of liquid lenses, which involves controlling the shape of a liquid to alter the properties of a lens, is not new. The human eye uses this concept every day as it focuses on objects near...
EDITORIAL
Dream in a bottle 10th February 1989 Dear Amy, I must write a special letter and thank you for the dream in a bottle. You are the first person in the world who has sent me one of these and it intrigued me very much. I also liked the dream. Tonight I shall go down to the village and blow it through the window of some sleeping child and see if it works. With love from, Roald Dahl Shaun Usher, the curator of the...
LIDAR SPECIAL SECTION
Lidar and Optical V2V: On the Road to Autonomous Vehicles Two different optical technologies — one already deployed, the other still on the drawing board — promise to ease autonomous vehicle integration. Lidar, the optical analog to radar, is deployed in Waymo and Uber vehicles and acts as the eyes, helping autonomous processors “see” the surrounding environment. Optical vehicle-to-vehicle (OV2V) communication is still in the design phase and can...
3 Questions with Marta Hall Photonics Media recently got in touch with Velodyne Lidar Inc. regarding its World Safety Summit on Autonomous Technology that took place Oct. 2. Marta Hall, Velodyne’s president and chief...
Lidar Emitter and Detector Technologies For many decades, lidar has been a successful technology for traffic monitoring and speed control. Self-driving transport vehicles in factory halls even use it for navigation. During all this time,...
Lidar: The Long and Winding Road to AV Adoption Tech advancements, especially in disruptive technologies, often drive down crooked, poorly mapped roads. AT&T’s Picturephone was introduced to huge fanfare at New York’s 1964...
High-Tech Lidar: The Future Looks Fly Over 50 years ago, light detection and ranging technology (lidar) found its earliest applications in military targeting and meteorology research, and famously, in mapping the surface of the moon in...
TECH PULSE
Sensor Detects Buried Objects from Moving Vehicle A new laser-based sensor, developed by a team at the University of Mississippi, can detect buried objects such as land mines even while the detector is in motion. The new device, called a Laser Multi Beam Differential Interferometric Sensor (LAMBDIS), provides detection capabilities comparable to laser Doppler vibrometers (LDVs), but is less sensitive to motion, allowing it to be used aboard a...
Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy Approach Improves Precision An interferometric, single-molecule localization method for superresolution fluorescence microscopy, developed by scientists at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, could...
Ultrablack Coating Is 10× Darker Than Other Very Black Materials MIT engineers have developed a material that they say is 10× blacker than anything that has previously been reported. The material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes that the team grew...
Researchers Remove Obstruction to Single-Photon Emission in Quantum Dots Quantum dots (QDs) are an efficient interface between matter and light and could potentially form the basis of quantum communications. However, their signal can be obstructed by structures that form...
Device Generates Renewable Electricity from Cold Night Sky An inexpensive thermoelectric device demonstrated the ability to power an LED at night by harnessing the cold of space to generate electricity. Such a device could be used for power generation in...
2-Level Optogenetic Device Could Broaden Options for Large-Mammal Studies An implantable optrode array, developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Utah, is capable of exciting below-surface neurons in large mammal brains both by...
Terahertz Heterodyne Detection with Graphene Could Power Space Telescopes Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have demonstrated a terahertz (THz) detector made from graphene for use in next-generation astronomy detectors. A near zero-electron scenario, called...
Perfect Soliton Crystals Boost Performance of Microresonators École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) scientists have bypassed light-bending losses that can occur when light pulses exit an optical microresonator, and have uncoupled the pulse repetition...
Single-Nanowire Spectrometer Works Separately from Components Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a microspectrometer based on a single, compositionally engineered nanowire that is independent of the complex optical components or cavities...
MWIR Laser Enables Study of High-Explosive Detonations Scientists at the University of Arizona and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories used a broadly tunable swept-wavelength external cavity quantum cascade laser (swept-ECQCL) operating in the...
Quantum Entanglement Sent Over 50 Km of Optical Fiber A team from the University of Innsbruck and the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has achieved what could be a record for the transfer of quantum...
All-Optical Neural Network Uses Parallel Computation to Speed Problem-Solving In a step toward making large-scale optical neural networks practical, researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have demonstrated a multilayer all-optical artificial neural...
Welding with Pulsed Lasers Protects Temperature-Sensitive Materials A new ceramic welding technology developed by engineers at the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, Riverside uses a series of short, ultrafast laser pulses to melt...
LIGHT SPEED
Photon Etc. Receives Award for Innovation at WMIC Photon etc. received the fifth annual Commercial Innovation of the Year Award at the 2019 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) for its IR VIVO NIR-II imaging system. The winner was chosen based on votes from WMIC attendees for IR VIVO’s unique capability to obtain in vivo images at wavelengths over 900 nm.
II-VI Completes Finisar Acquisition II-VI Inc. has completed the acquisition of Finisar Corp., which was first announced Nov. 9, 2018. The transaction was made with a combination of term loans and $1.1 billion of the company’s stock....
NKT Photonics Opens Facility and Office in Boston NKT Photonics will celebrate the grand opening of their Boston office on Oct. 30. The facility, announced earlier in the year, will not only serve as a headquarters for U.S. sales and support, but...
NASA to Monitor Ionosphere with Jenoptik Optics' and Navy's MIGHT! NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite (ICON) is scheduled to launch next month for a two-year mission to gather information on weather and other physical processes within the...
II-VI and LITE-ON Partner on Lidar II-VI Inc. has signed a strategic partnership agreement with optoelectronic specialist LITE-ON Technology Corp. The partnership will enable the volume manufacturing and commercialization of packaged...
DOE Awards $60.7M Funding for Quantum Computing, Communications Projects The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $60.7 million in funding to advance the development of quantum computing and networking. Funding of $47 million will be provided for three 5-year...
EV Group Partners with SCHOTT on Lithography EV Group (EVG) has partnered with SCHOTT to demonstrate the readiness of 300-mm nanoimprint lithography (NIL) for high-volume patterning of high-refractive index glass wafers used in the manufacture...
HÜBNER Photonics Cuts Ribbon on New Facility The HÜBNER Group has opened a new facility to support research, development, and manufacturing of laser technology for HÜBNER Photonics. The new facility, the HÜBNER Photonics HUB...
Brookhaven Completes LSST’s Digital Sensor Array Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have completed a 3.2 gigapixel sensor array for the camera that will be used in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope...
LIGHTER SIDE
Lime in the coconut Sales of pirated, counterfeit, knockoff, and fake goods may comprise, according to recent statistics, more than 3% of world trade. Customs seizure data from 2016 estimates the value of imported nongenuine goods to be around $500 billion, according to a 2019 report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Among popular counterfeited objects are luxury...
PRODUCTS
Laser Spectrum Analyzer The ZOOM UHR ultrahigh-resolution laser spectrum analyzer from RESOLUTION Spectra Systems SAS features up to 1.6 GHz spectral resolution. With a wavelength range of 950 to 1080 nm, an optical...
Resolution Spectra Systems
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3D Transparent LCD Displays 3D transparent LCD displays from Crystal Display Systems Ltd. use a high-brightness display component at the rear of the transparent, eliminating the potential for backlighting in design and project...
Crystal Display Systems Ltd.
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Fiber Optic Inspection Probe The DI-2000 Autofocus Fiber Optic Inspection Probe from Lightel Technologies Inc. provides ergonomic ease-of-use and versatile inspection of the endfaces for fiber optic male and female, single, and...
Lightel Technologies Inc.
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Optical Trigger The OT-3 Optical Trigger from Specialised Imaging Ltd. is both a flash detector to trigger cameras or tracker systems and a projectile movement detector when measuring velocity. The OT-3...
Specialised Imaging Ltd.
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Focusing Objectives The LMUL-10X-UVB, LMUL-20X-UVB, and LMUL-50X-UVB Focusing Objectives from Thorlabs Inc. are high-power UV devices designed for use with UV excimer lasers and other UV sources. The objectives...
Thorlabs Inc.
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Cooled Thermal Camera The microCORE 250HD cooled thermal camera from RP Optical Lab Ltd. features a resolution designed for various defense and homeland security applications. The lightweight camera has a 16×...
RP Optical Lab Ltd.
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Hexapod The Hybrid Hexapod from ALIO Industries offers five- and six-axis motion performance. Being orders of magnitude more precise than traditional hexapods, the Hybrid Hexapod is 100× stiffer,...
ALIO Industries Inc.
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Fiber Transceivers 32-G Fiber Channel Transceivers from Smartoptics AS are supported for embedded use in fiber-channel-capable switches. The simplicity of the embedded solution enables a compact building...
Smartoptics
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Infrared Laser Slider The Infrared Slider from Spectrolight Inc. is a bolt-on accessory for the Light Aligner beam alignment tool. A screw can be tightened to fix the location of the IR slider based on the required...
SPECTROLIGHT Inc.
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PCB Repair Microscope The QianLi LC-IRP01 Thermal/Visible Microscope from Saelig Co. Inc. is a diagnostic tool for printed circuit board (PCB) repair. The microscope displays heat images to help identify damaged or...
Saelig Co. Inc.
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Static Ceramic Converters Static ceramic converters from Schott AG accelerate compact laser light applications without moving parts. For laser-pumped phosphor light sources, the phosphor ceramic converter components...
SCHOTT AG
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Spectral Light Meter The MSC15 Spectral Light Meter from Gigahertz-Optik GmbH measures LED-based light sources by illuminance, spectrum, color, CRI, PAR, and human-centric metrics. Internal memory for local storage...
Gigahertz-Optik GmbH
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Laser Lens The E²L Extreme Environment Lens from BEA Lasers is a laser lens designed for use with the MIL Series of devices. The E²L Extreme Environment Lens incorporates a quartz glass lens...
BEA Lasers
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Full-Frame Lens The Anamorphic/i 135-mm Full Frame Plus T2.3 lens from Cooke Optics Ltd. is a prime lens for large format productions. The device features anamorphic characteristics including flare and oval...
Cooke Optics Ltd.
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Optical Inspection System The portable optical inspection system from Math & Tech Engineering GmbH uses an integrated USB uEye 3.0 camera from IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH to automatically detect and evaluate...
Math & Tech Engineering GmbH
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UV Imaging Camera The SceneScope RUVIS 29MP Full Spectrum Imaging Camera from SPEX Forensics, division of Horiba Instruments Inc., is a reflective UV imaging system. The short-wave device captures 29 MP in a...
HORIBA Scientific
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SWIR Imaging Camera The A6260 SWIR imaging camera from FLIR Systems Inc. is a research-grade device with fully customizable features. The A6260 offers improved sensitivity and linearity across the full dynamic...
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Pockels Cell Driver The T850 Pockels Cell Driver from Highland Technology Inc. increases electrical efficiency and reduces driver size, cost, and cooling requirements. The T850 can drive Pockels cells from 250 to...
Highland Technology Inc.
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