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Photonics Spectra - October 2014
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Gas Purging Keeps UV Systems Healthy
Photochemical deposition of organic films is a significant cause of performance loss in ultraviolet systems; when feasible, it can be reduced or eliminated with inert gas purging. Ultraviolet photons...
Micro Thermal Camera Opens Applications to Consumers
Personal thermal imaging just got affordable – but the technology can be used in various industries, too. Thermal imaging is hardly new, but most of us don’t carry thermal imagers in our...
Bandwidth Demands Drive Fiber Optics Advances
Data centers and other applications are pushing changes in long-haul and short-haul fibers. Fiber optics connects the world, carrying calls and data. With bandwidth demand growing, manufacturers are...
Additive Manufacturing: The Laser Source Is Critical
Laser beam power, spot size and focal point must be measured and controlled to produce parts to specification through 3-D printing. Laser-based additive manufacturing (AM) involves the deposition of...
Applications Expand for Photon Counting
The prospects of photon-counting imaging are as diverse as they are promising. From space-debris monitoring, to telecommunication satellites and shuttle missions, to the advent of powerful surgical...
Keeping Optical Tables Steady
Experimental results from a scanning laser Doppler vibrometer elucidate the effects of active vibration damping. Vibration presents a major challenge for precision experiments and manufacturing...
Editorial
To a Great Future
There’s a Great Future in Photonics. Let’s do something about it. Of course, it was plastics that had a great future and gave us such a memorable line from the 1967 film “The Graduate.” But before we know it, the word photonics will be on everyone’s lips. I call your attention to the open letter from John Dudley, opposite this Editorial Comment, about the important...
Tech Pulse
Meta-Atoms Alter Light Polarization
A new metamaterial that is deformed by light while altering its polarization could become a tool for developing photonic circuits. A team from Australian National University’s Research School of Physics and Engineering (RSPE) made this new finding while developing metamaterials. These were formed from a pattern of tiny metal shapes called meta-atoms, which were then used to achieve optical...
Army Develops Multiwavelength Laser, Countermeasure
A new optical system aims to protect soldiers using magnification optics against eye-damaging multiwavelength lasers. Developed by a team from the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and...
Technique Could Simplify Photonic Crystal Formation
A new method could allow scientists to custom-grow defect-free photonic crystals. A team from Princeton University and Columbia University created computer models demonstrating the technique, adding...
Image Processing Method Offers Enhanced Underwater Views
New image-enhancing software for cameras allows scientists to more easily observe life under water. A team from the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research and the Royal Netherlands...
Novel Laser Could Transmit Quantum Data
A laser made from a superconducting artificial atom could aid information transfer in quantum computing. To create the laser, a team from Dartmouth College embedded a pair of electrons called a...
'Air Waveguides' Function Like Optical Fibers
A new technique could allow scientists to run optical fiber to nearly any place on earth — and possibly even into space. A team from the University of Maryland has discovered how to make air...
Nanosensor Enhances Bomb Detection
A new sensor could potentially detect explosives that traditional recognition devices cannot. The new light-based plasmon laser sensor, developed by a team from the University of California,...
Nanopixels Drive Flexible, Extremely Hi-Res Displays
A recent study that delves into the electrical and optical properties of phase-change materials has unveiled a new way to develop flexible, thin-film displays with extremely high resolution and low...
‘Metamirror’ Doubles Incident Light Frequency
A nanostructure produces nonlinear effects a million times greater than traditional, macro-scale nonlinear crystals, according to a team of researchers from Texas and Germany. This...
Hollow Core Protects Optical Fibers from UV Light
A new type of optical fiber can guide UV laser light without sustaining damage, as often happens with conventional fibers. Developed by a team from the Max Planck Institute and the Centre for Quantum...
Metamaterial a One-Way Street for Visible Light
A structure based on hyperbolic metamaterials allows visible light to pass in only one direction, creating new possibilities for optical circuits and biosensing. Developed at the National Institute...
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3 Questions Interview
The General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted the value of 299,792.458 km/s for the speed of light on Oct. 21, 1983. In honor of that event, the first international Day of Photonics will take place this Oct. 21 to help “bring to light” the impact of photonics on our day-to-day lives. Photo courtesy of Epic. More than 100 activities in more than 20 countries are planned,...
Photonics West Grows With 3-D Printing, Brain Research
New technologies for global health care, molecular-guided surgery, 3-D printing and additive manufacturing, brain research and cloud technologies are just some of the new topics to be featured at...
An Open Letter to the Photonics Industry
Join with us in 2015 to raise international awareness of how photonic technologies can solve global challenges. It is a tremendous honor for us that photonics has been recognized by the United...
Forecast: VCSEL Market to Grow to $2.1B by 2018
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) will be a $2.1 billion market, growing 33.1 percent from 2013 to 2018, BCC Research predicts. Optical fiber data transmission is expected to record...
Fiber Optic Sensors Market to Reach $2.2B by 2018
The global market for fiber optic sensors is expected to reach $2.2 billion by 2018, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.5 percent since 2013, according to a BCC Research analysis....
Logos Technologies to Provide High-Energy Laser
Logos Technologies has been selected to design, build and install a high-energy laser at Washington State University. The laser will be used at WSU’s Dynamic Compression Sector (DCS) at the...
Quantum Dots Market Could Hit $8,246.8M by 2023
The global quantum dots market is growing and experts project it could reach $8,246.8 million by 2023. A recently released Transparency Market Research report focuses on the analysis, size, share,...
Conexant a Finalist for 21st High-Tech Innovation Awards
Conexant Systems Inc. has been named a finalist in the semiconductor category of the Orange County Technology Alliance annual High-Tech Innovation Awards for its CX20921 voice-processing chip. The...
3-D Scanning Market to Reach $4.9B by 2020
The global 3-D scanning market will reach $4.9 billion by 2020, growing at an annual rate of 12.4 percent, according to a new report from Allied Market Research. The report states, “3-D...
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SRS Probes Inner Workings of Solar Panels
Using femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (SRS), scientists have now probed the inner workings of plastic solar panels. The findings could further efforts to improve solar panels and broaden their use, according to a team at the University of Montreal, in conjunction with England’s Science and Technology Facilities Council, Imperial College London and the University of Cyprus....
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Smile and Say, ‘Drone!’
Any photographer will tell you that if it were possible to grow an extra set of hands, he would. As simultaneous scientists, artists and packhorses, photographers must know their equipment inside and out, but they must also be prepared to change shutter speed and aperture at a moment’s notice – even prophetically. Lenses need to be changed, equipment needs to be carried, and an...
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