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Photonics.com - January 2019
Business
Photodigm Names Bob Davis VP of Sales
Photodigm Inc., manufacturer of monolithic DBR laser diodes for instrumentation, metrology, and medical diagnostics, recently announced the appointment of Bob Davis as vice president of sales. Davis...
InPulse to Accelerate PIC Development in Europe
InPulse is a pilot project that will offer access to the latest production technology for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on indium phosphide to startups with promising ideas, but no access...
Max Planck Florida Institute Becomes ZEISS 'Labs@Location' Partner
The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) and the Germany-based microscopy company ZEISS announced a “labs@location” partnership agreement on Jan. 17. As a “labs@location” partner...
Millimeter Wave Imager 'Sees' Through Solid Objects
A camera-like device that generates and detects millimeter waves that “see” through solid objects has been built by a University of Delaware (UD) student engineering team. These high-frequency waves,...
Research & Technology
Researchers Demonstrate Fractal Light from Lasers
A team from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the University of Glasgow has demonstrated that fractal light can be created from a laser, verifying a prediction made roughly two decades...
UA Project to Provide Interdisciplinary Access to Quantum Resources
University of Arizona (UA) researchers are building a shared research and training instrument to help scientists in diverse fields benefit from quantum resources, including those with no expertise in...
Optical Microscopy System Observes, Stimulates Multiple Living Cells
A new optical microscope uses holographic techniques to stimulate multiple cells simultaneously and monitor cell activity after stimulation. Developed by researchers at Kobe University and called...
All-Photonic Quantum Repeaters Could Lead to Faster, More Secure Quantum Internet
Researchers at the University of Toronto are working to address the challenges of transmitting quantum information securely over great distances using optical fiber communication. They have developed...
InPulse to Accelerate PIC Development in Europe
InPulse is a pilot project that will offer access to the latest production technology for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on indium phosphide to startups with promising ideas, but no access...
Robotic-Assisted Lung Surgery Could Improve Patient Outcomes
Complete robotic-assisted lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) to remove emphysematous tissue was performed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital using the da Vinci Xi Surgical System. During the robotic...
Lens-Free, Multicolor Holography Technique Could Enable Compact 3D Displays
A holography technique based on computer-generated holograms (CHGs), developed by a team at Duke University, produces complex, multicolor holographic images without any bulky optical components. The...
Photomultiplier Tubes from Brown Team Will Be the 'Eyes' of New Dark Matter Detector
Brown University researchers have assembled two arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to serve as the “eyes” for the LUX-ZEPLIN (L-Z) dark matter detector, which will begin its search for dark...
Photoacoustic Approach Uses Lasers to Send Messages
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory have demonstrated two laser-based methods to transmit various audio tones and recorded speech at a conversational...
Hyperspectral Imaging Could Automate, Improve Plastics Recycling
A new method using NIR hyperspectral imaging (HSI) and chemometrics could make it possible to sort between different types of plastic and between different flame retardants added to plastic, a...
New Free-Space Enhancement Cavities Developed for Optical Solitons
Physicists based at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics have generated temporal, dissipative, optical solitons in passive, free-space resonators. The...
UV-Powered Fluid Pump Could Move Pollutants, Deliver Drugs
A highly controllable method that uses UV light to control particle motion and assembly within liquids could be used in drug delivery, chemical sensors, and fluid pumps. Developed by the Sen Lab at...
Sensor Uses AI to Obtain Real-Time Images from Satellite Orbit
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed a low-cost star tracker and Earth sensor. The star tracker will be used with microsatellites to handle calibration...
Artificial Photosynthesis Could Help Limit Carbon Emissions
If CO2 emissions do not fall fast enough, then CO2 will have to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming. New technologies for artificial photosynthesis could contribute to negative...
Max Planck Florida Institute Becomes ZEISS 'Labs@Location' Partner
The Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) and the Germany-based microscopy company ZEISS announced a “labs@location” partnership agreement on Jan. 17. As a “labs@location” partner...
Microscopy Techniques Combine for Nanoscale Brain-Wide Imaging
Scientists from the Eric Betzig lab at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Campus and the Ed Boyden Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) collaborated to develop an imaging...
ARL Explores Benefits of Immersive Technology for Soldiers
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), in collaboration with the University of Minnesota and the U.S. Army’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), have investigated methods for...
Next-Gen Semi Materials Could Be a Boost for Photovoltaics, Lighting
Next-generation semiconducting materials have the potential to transform lighting technology and photovoltaics, suggest researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), in a study...
Engineers Perform Computational Logic with Optical and Electrical Signals
In work that could help advance low-power, high-performance computer chips, researchers at the University of Tokyo and RIKEN have employed UV light and electric fields to perform logic operations...
Directed Currents Generated at THz Frequencies Are Higher Than Current Clock Rates
Researchers at the Max Born Institute (MBI) generated directed electric currents at terahertz (THz) frequencies from light absorbed in semiconductor crystals. According to the researchers, this is a...
Three-Photon Microscope Reveals Cortical Layers of Mouse Brain
A new three-photon microscope developed at the Picower Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) can deliver rapid, short, low-power pulses of light capable of reaching deep...
Strain Engineering Produces Highly Stable Light From Individual QDs
New research at Los Alamos National Laboratory suggests that asymmetrically strained colloidal quantum dots (QDs) can provide stable, blink-free light emission comparable with the light produced by...
New Additive Manufacturing Method Uses Light to Prevent Resin From Curing Against Vat
A new approach to 3D printing uses two-color irradiation of resin formulations that contain a photoinitiator and a photoinhibitor to perform vat-printing up to 100 times faster than conventional 3D...
Engineered Light Could Improve Health, Boost Food Production
According to researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, lighting based on LEDs is not only more energy efficient can be used both as a signal for specific physiological responses in humans and...
Second Harmonic Generation Imaging Reveals Existence of Second Bandgap in a 2D Structure
Using time-resolved second harmonic generation (TSHG) microscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) have...
Gravitational Lensing Magnifies Light of Quasar from Extremely Distant Space and Time
Observations from Gemini Observatory have identified a key fingerprint of an extremely distant quasar, allowing astronomers to sample light emitted from the beginning of time. Astronomers happened...
Imaging Physical Properties of Tumors Could Aid Precision Medicine
A team at the University of Lyon has developed a light-scattering method that maps out the mechanical properties of a tumor’s cellular structure as well as its internal fluids, revealing changes due...
Holographic Color Prints Combine Phase and Amplitude Control of Light for Better Optical Security
A new optical anticounterfeiting device, called “holographic color prints” by its developers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), provides a dual function to increase security...
Top SPIE Optics Award Goes to RMIT Physicist
The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) has announced Min Gu as the 2019 recipient of the Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics, an award named in honor of the Nobel-winning...
RIT Team Is Developing Computer Vision Technology to Improve Aerial Tracking
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) are developing a visual tracking system to more accurately locate and follow moving objects under surveillance. Using deep learning, the system...
Light Is Dynamically Controlled in a Programmable Electro-Optic System
An integrated photonics platform that can store light and electrically control its frequency in an integrated circuit is the newest development from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering...
Stevens Researcher Receives NSF CAREER Award to Develop Portable Solar Panels
Stephanie Lee, an assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, was awarded a 2019 CAREER Award by the National Science Foundation to fund her research in engineering green, portable,...
Pure Graphene Generates Photocurrent Over Great Distances
An international research team has discovered a new mechanism for ultra-efficient charge and energy flow in pristine graphene. The team was co-led by professor Nathaniel Gabor from the University of...
Optogenetics Device Offers Stable Way to Treat Bladder Problems
A tiny, implantable device has been created that can detect overactivity in the bladder and use light from biointegrated LEDs to tamp down the urge to urinate. The device has been demonstrated in...
Nanosatellite System Could Lower Cost of High-Resolution Space Imagery
A new nanosatellite imaging system developed by Ben-Gurion University (BGU) researchers is able to capture images that match the resolution of full-frame, lens-based, or concave mirror systems used...
Researchers Use Light Waves to Study Topological Materials
The laws of quantum physics tell us that electrons behave like waves; and in some materials, these electron waves can take on complicated shapes. So-called “topological materials” produce electron...
Tunable, Nonlinear Metamaterials Could Facilitate Optical Communication
Scientists from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell, King’s College London, Paris Diderot University, and the University of Hartford have found that several materials with poor nonlinear...
Millimeter Wave Imager 'Sees' Through Solid Objects
A camera-like device that generates and detects millimeter waves that “see” through solid objects has been built by a University of Delaware (UD) student engineering team. These high-frequency waves,...
Optogenetics Device Offers Targeted Control of Light to Neurons
University of Arizona researchers have developed a wireless, battery-free method for controlling the intensity and frequency of light that is delivered to neurons in the brain. The miniature device...
Microwaveguides Could Speed Control of Light Flux in PICs
In order to increase the speed with which photonic integrated circuits (PICs) control light flux, researchers are for new materials with high optical nonlinearity. Among the promising materials are...
Nobel Prize Winner Glauber Dies at 93
Roy J. Glauber, Nobel laureate, passed away Dec. 26, 2018, at the age of 93. Glauber was awarded one-half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical...
System Uses QD Array to Tackle Scalability Issues in Quantum Computing
A research team led by the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) has constructed a hybrid device for quantum computing, made from two different types of qubits. According to the team, the...
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Machine Vision Lenses
KLEVE, Germany, Jan. 31, 2019 — 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 designed for use with all standard machine vision cameras that use a C-mount, image sensors with an optical format up to 1.1 in., and pixel pitches from 2.5 µm, which equal up to 23 MP. The minimum...
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Industry 4.0 Technologies
MANNHEIM, Germany, Jan. 31, 2019 — Industry 4.0 technologies from Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH are designed to work within Internet of Things and smart industry infrastructure. Connected Customization uses a multisensor system of lidar...
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Silver Sintering Epoxy Die Attach
CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 30, 2019 — Palomar Technologies Inc. has announced epoxy die attach capabilities for silver sintering. Developed to meet growing demands for radio frequency gallium nitride (RF GaN) power amplifiers,...
Palomar Technologies
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Wearable Optoelectronics
LATHAM, N.Y., Jan. 30, 2019 — Dedicated offerings for wearables from Marktech Optoelectronics Inc. include multiwavelength emitters, detectors, and LEDs. For wearable designs requiring more advanced onboard monitoring and...
Marktech Optoelectronics Inc.
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3D Printer
KARLSRUHE, Germany, Jan. 29, 2019 — The Photonic Professional GT2 3D printer from Nanoscribe GmbH is designed for high-resolution 3D microfabrication. Depending on the desired size and resolution, users can choose from sets of...
Nanoscribe GmbH & Co. KG
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LED Recessed Troffer Lights
TORRANCE, Calif., Jan. 29, 2019 — The CLT series of tunable LED recessed troffer lights from LEDtronics Inc. are ideal replacements for standard drop-ceiling troffer and parabolic fixtures in recessed luminaires. Their slim...
LEDtronics Inc.
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Spectrograph
TRENTON, N.J., Jan. 16, 2019 — The SpectraPro HRS-750 from Princeton Instruments Inc. is a 750-mm focal length spectrograph and scanning monochromator, featuring an astigmatism-corrected optical design. With a mechanical...
Teledyne Princeton Instruments
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Embedded Vision Line
TAUFKIRCHEN, Germany, Jan. 15, 2019 — The Embedded Vision (EV) Ecosystem product line from Framos GmbH is designed to ease imaging development. Providing a modularized approach to embedded vision, the series includes sensor...
FRAMOS GmbH
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Distance Sensors
OWEN, Germany, Jan. 14, 2019 — The ODS 110/HT 110 and HRT 25B L distance sensors from Leuze electronic GmbH + Co. KG offer an array of different designs with extra-large operating ranges and several switching points. With a...
Leuze electronic GmbH & Co. KG
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Patch Camera
NEUCHATEL, Switzerland, Jan. 14, 2019 — CSEM SA has developed the Witness camera, a fully autonomous device that can be deployed like a sticker, opening up new possibilities for surveillance and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. The...
CSEM SA
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Quantum Computing Control System
ZURICH, Jan. 10, 2019 — The Quantum Computing Control System from Zurich Instruments consists of the UHFQA Quantum Analyzer and the PQSC Programmable Quantum System Controller. QCCS is an integrated and comprehensive...
Zurich Instruments AG
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Vision Adapter Card
DORVAL, Canada, Jan. 10, 2019 — The Matrox Concord Power over Ethernet (PoE) vision adapter card with TCO offload engine (ToW) from Matrox Imaging is designed for use with GigE Vision cameras. The Matrox Concord PoE with ToE...
Matrox Imaging
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Zoom Collimator
BERLIN, Jan. 10, 2019 — The trioFokus zoom collimator from AdlOptica GmbH is designed for multi-kW fiber or fiber-coupled lasers. The optical design of the trioFokus provides continuous variation of the...
AdlOptica GmbH
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