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 February 2019


BUSINESS
Lumicell Expands New Headquarters for Molecular Imaging Lumicell Inc., a technology leader in the field of image-guided cancer surgery, has expanded its new headquarters in Newton, Mass., into a contemporary workspace where the company’s molecular imaging technology will be developed. The new office space at One Newton Place, 275 Washington St., has a footprint of more than 20,000 square feet and has been completely renovated to meet Lumicell’s needs....
Osram Launches Human-Centric Lighting System Leading global lighting and technology company Osram is launching a digital tunable white (TW) system based on DALI-2 designed for human-centric lighting (HCL) applications in educational, commercial...
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...
High-Performance Endoscope Developed for Monitoring Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Resolve Optics has developed and supplied an infrared endoscope to enable safe monitoring of the glass vitrification process within a radioactive waste processing plant using a thermal camera. The...
XSurgical Opens International Headquarters in US XSurgical, developer of a remotely controlled surgical robot, has established new international headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The new headquarters houses a laboratory for engineers to bring the...
OFC 2019: A High-Powered Interchange Over the last 40 years, OFC (Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition) — to be held March 3-7 at the San Diego Convention Center — has become, globally, the...
Smart Glass Sets Sights on Smart Homes Integrated, invisible microstructured optics developed by ZEISS GmbH have made it possible to utilize transparent glass or plastic in never-before-seen applications. The technology enables...
VI Systems Awarded Two Optoelectronic Patents The U.S. Patent Office has awarded two critical patents to VI Systems GmbH for applications in advanced data communications, sensing, and high-power vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)...
German Companies Partner for Macroscopic Polymer Production LightFab GmbH, Bartels Mikrotechnik GmbH, Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, and Fraunhofer ILT are jointly executing the HoPro-3D project, a plan to create a new machine for producing macroscopic polymer...
CEA-Leti Develops AR Retinal Projection Technology CEA-Leti, a French research institute for electronics and information technologies, has developed a novel retinal-projection concept for augmented reality (AR) uses based on a combination of...
Cisco Acquires Luxtera Cisco has announced that it completed the acquisition of privately-held Luxtera, Inc., a semiconductor company headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif. that uses silicon photonics to build integrated optics...
Swansea University, Crown Holdings Enter Smart Factory Project Collaboration Next-generation smart factories, which use advanced digital technology to improve efficiency, are the focus of a collaboration between packaging manufacturer Crown Holdings Inc. and Swansea...
OSA, Coherent Create Couillaud Ultrafast Photonics Award The Optical Society Foundation (OSAF) and laser developer Coherent Inc. recently created the Bernard J. Couillaud Prize, a merit-based award to support early-career OSA members who are engaged in...
NASA Team Experimenting with Femtosecond Lasers An ultrafast laser that fires pulses of light 100 millionths of a nanosecond in duration could potentially revolutionize the way that NASA technicians manufacture and ultimately assemble instrument...
Prism Award Winners Take Center Stage Amid the bustle of Photonics West, some of the industry’s top innovators gathered on Feb. 6 to honor the best products and advancements at the “Oscars of the photonics industry”...
RoboSense Named a 2019 CES Innovation Honoree for Lidar Advancement RoboSense has been named a CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree for its RS-IPLS Intelligent Perception lidar system. An annual program that celebrates outstanding design, the CES Innovation Awards...
RIT’s Bhattacharya Building Nanoparticle Laser Framework Mishkat Bhattacharya, an associate professor of physics at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and a member of the Future Photon Initiative, is collaborating on a multi-university project...
EMVA’s Berndt Elected to Photonics21 Board As a member of the European Machine Vision Association’s board of directors, Dirk Berndt was recently elected to the Photonics21 board of stakeholders. The board of stakeholders is the main...
Corning, WaveOptics Enter AR Partnership Glass supplier Corning Inc. and diffractive waveguide manufacturer WaveOptics Ltd. have entered into a long-term supply agreement for augmented reality (AR) optics. Corning will provide ultra-flat,...
UC Santa Barbara’s Lubin Describes Interstellar Laser Travel Experimental cosmologist Philip Lubin recently presented interstellar space travel scenarios at the Optical Society’s Laser Congress in Boston, informed by his direction of the NASA Starlight and...
Acquisition of Aeryon Labs Expands FLIR’s UAS Offerings FLIR Systems Inc. has acquired Aeryon Labs Inc., a developer of high-performance unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for the global military, public safety, and critical infrastructure markets for $200...
RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
UH Chemist Earns CAREER Award for Work in Luminescence University of Houston assistant professor Thomas Teets has received a five-year, $589,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to explore synthetic strategies for producing photoactive...
Laser ‘Drill’ Sets a New Record in Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration Using a laser pulse to heat up and “drill” through a plasma, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have nearly doubled the previous record for laser-driven particle acceleration. The...
UA Names College of Optical Sciences After Founding Dean University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins announced Feb. 25 that its College of Optical Sciences will be renamed in honor of Professor Emeritus and founding dean James C. Wyant, who has...
ICFO Showcases Graphene-Based Wearables at MWC 2019 A new device from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) will allow users to monitor their level of exposure to sunlight through a UV sensor. Designed as a flexible, transparent, disposable patch,...
Perovskite Quantum Dots Deliver Coherent Single-Photon Emission In an advancement toward a single photon source for use in quantum computing and communications devices, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and ETH Zurich showed that...
Funding Aims to Improve Global Gravitational Wave Network U.S. and U.K. science funding agencies have earmarked $30 million in additional funding aimed at significantly increasing the sensitivity of gravitational wave observatories around the globe....
Defects in Perovskites Could Have Positive Impact on Optoelectronic Devices In a quest to design more efficient solar cells and LEDs, an engineering team from the University of Washington in St. Louis analyzed different types of defects in the semiconductor material that...
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...
Control of Nanowire Growth Advances Silicon Photonics Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Luasanne (EPFL) Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, together with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the...
‘Crystal Ball’ VR System Supports Collaborative Tasks Researchers at the University of British Columbia and University of Saskatchewan have developed a ball-shaped VR display that supports up to two users at a time, using advanced calibration and...
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...
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...
New Use for Quantum Dots: Tracking the Pollination Process A pollination biologist from Stellenbosch University is breaking new ground in his field by using quantum dots to track and label individual pollen grains. His novel, low-cost method could enable...
Fluorogenic Method Detects Two-Protein Aggregation in Live Cells A new method uses fluorescence to detect potentially disease-causing forms of proteins as they misfold and unravel due to stress or mutations. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University (Penn...
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...
Scientists to Test Light Therapy as Relief from Side Effects of Cancer Treatment University at Buffalo (UB) researchers have received part of a $1.5 million grant to investigate light therapy as a replacement for prescription opioids in treating oral mucositis, painful ulcers,...
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...
Researchers Find New Method for Fabricating Optical Metasurfaces A way to produce glass metasurfaces that can be either rigid or flexible, developed by engineers from the EPFL Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices, could be used to fabricate...
DBR Suppresses Spectral Crosstalk for Improved IR Imaging Performance Northwestern University engineers discovered a way to suppress spectral crosstalk between dual-band long-wavelength photodetectors. Their findings could reduce image distortion and improve IR imaging...
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...
Prism Award Winners Take Center Stage Amid the bustle of Photonics West, some of the industry’s top innovators gathered on Feb. 6 to honor the best products and advancements at the “Oscars of the photonics industry”...
Data-Driven Spectroscopy Has Potential to Speed Development Artificial Intelligence for Spectroscopy (ARTIST) is a new approach to spectroscopy that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the spectroscopic analysis of materials and discovery of new...
Combination of SPECT, Cardiac MRI Helps Guide VT Ablation Adding functional imaging to structural imaging of patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) has the potential to improve current VT ablation strategies, according to new research from the...
ACQUISITIONS
Cisco Acquires Luxtera Cisco has announced that it completed the acquisition of privately-held Luxtera, Inc., a semiconductor company headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif. that uses silicon photonics to build integrated optics...
Acquisition of Aeryon Labs Expands FLIR’s UAS Offerings FLIR Systems Inc. has acquired Aeryon Labs Inc., a developer of high-performance unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for the global military, public safety, and critical infrastructure markets for $200...
PRODUCTS
Ultra-Narrow Bandpass Filters SANTA ROSA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2019 — 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...
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Interface Board IVER, England, Feb. 12, 2019 — The Harrier interface board from Active Silicon Ltd. is available in 75- and 50-Ω variations, offering long-reach, real-time HD digital and analog video transmission for the Tamron MP1010M-VC...
Active Silicon Ltd.
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Scanner Controller PITTSBURGH, Feb. 12, 2019 — The GL4 scanner controller from Aerotech Inc. is optimized for the company’s AGV scanners to provide leading settling times, long-term thermal stability, and μm-level tracking accuracy due...
Aerotech Inc.
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Embedded Controller ROCHESTER, England, Feb. 12, 2019 — The T36X0 embedded controller from Crystal Display Systems is built for the industrial automation and machine vision market. The fully equipped controller features a suite of I/O, designed with...
Crystal Display Systems Ltd.
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IR Camera QUEBEC CITY, Feb. 11, 2019 — The MICROXCAM-384i-MLWIR IR camera from the National Optics Institute (INO) is based on a sensitive 384- × 288-pixel uncooled microbolometer focal plane array, fabricated using 35-μm pixel...
INO
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Square-Core Laser Fiber STIRLING, N.J., Feb. 11, 2019 — The Square Core Fiber from Fiberguide Industries Inc. is designed to improve the optical performance of various laser manufacturing processes and medical applications. With its linear and...
Molex, Fiberguide
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InP Technology Platform BERLIN, Feb. 11, 2019 — Luceda Photonics and VPIphotonics GmbH have announced the SMART Photonics Indium Phosphide (InP) technology platform, combining Luceda’s IPKISS design platform with the VPIcomponentMaker...
VPIphotonics GmbH
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Flat-Field Spectrometer CHELMSFORD, Mass., Feb. 11, 2019 — The Model 251MX aberration-corrected flat-field spectrometer from McPherson Inc. delivers results over the 0.5- to 150-nm range by indexing diffraction gratings. The system is optimized for...
McPHERSON
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Industrial Femtosecond Laser BIRKERØD, Denmark, Feb. 11, 2019 — The ORIGAMI XP-S industrial femtosecond laser from NKT Photonics is designed for easy and cost-effective system integration. The device provides up to 75 μJ/pulse in the NIR range or 35...
NKT Photonics A/S
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Circular Photodiode CAMARILLO, Calif., Feb. 11, 2019 — The AXUV20HS1 circular photodiode from Opto Diode Corp. is designed for radiation detection. The high-speed photodetector features a circular active area of 5 mm in diameter and electron...
Opto Diode Corporation
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CMOS Image Sensors PREMSTAETTEN, Austria, Feb. 11, 2019 — The NanEyeM and NanEyeXS CMOS image sensors from ams AG enable the production of high-performance, single-use endoscopes for use in minimally invasive surgery. The new 1-sq-m NanEyeM offers a...
ams OSRAM
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3D Endoscope Visualization System TAICHUNG, Taiwan, Feb. 8, 2019 — The MonoStereo 3D endoscope visualization system from MedicalTek Co. features 3D technology with easy-set, easy-alter adjustable effects. The software-based system gives surgeons the freedom to...
MedicalTek Co. Ltd.
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3-CMOS Prism Color Cameras SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2019 — Six new models in JAI Inc.’s Apex series of high-performance 3-CMOS prism color cameras have been announced. Three of the camera models are variations of the AP-3200T-USB, a 3.2-MP,...
JAI Inc.
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Industrial Manufacturing Cameras KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 8, 2019 — The Iris M and Iris MX cameras from RDI Technologies are high-speed solutions for industrial manufacturing facilities. The Iris M utilizes the millions of pixels in today’s modern cameras...
RDI Technologies Inc.
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Imaging System SHEFFIELD, England, Feb. 1, 2019 — The Livecyte 2 imaging system from Phasefocus exploits ptychographic phase imaging to generate quantitative, high-contrast images without the need for perturbing labels. The system provides...
Phase Focus Ltd.
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High-Speed Video Camera PITSTONE, England, Feb. 1, 2019 — The Kirana high-speed video camera from Specialised Imaging Ltd. incorporates a unique hybrid sensor that is able to capture high-resolution video data at up to 5 million fps. Kirana’s...
Specialised Imaging Ltd.
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