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Fiber optics connects the world, carrying calls and data. With bandwidth demand growing, manufacturers are working to up transmission rates, cut costs and otherwise improve product performance. However, achieving these goals may require changing long- and short-haul fiber, while at the same time overcoming manufacturing-related challenges.
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Using 3-D printing to make components to specification requires fine control of laser beam power, spot size and focal point.
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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 tools to treat cancer, its applications are numerous and expanding.
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Thermal imaging is hardly new, but most of us don’t carry thermal imagers in our pockets. Not yet. But it could happen soon, thanks to a new thermal infrared camera so tiny, low-power and inexpensive that it can fit in a cellphone or other mobile device.
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Laser Diode Driver
IXYS Colorado
The PIM-Mini from IXYS in an air-cooled pulsed current source designed to drive laser diodes, bars and arrays.
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Polarizing Beamsplitters
Precision Glass & Optics
New polarizing beamsplitter cubes from Precision Glass & Optics split up the s and p polarization of light with an extinction ratio of Tp/Ts 200:1 and higher.
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Sapphire Wafer Carriers
Meller Optics, Inc.
Sapphire wafer carriers from Meller Optics Inc. are more durable than quartz and are impervious to polishing abrasives and solvents.
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Positioning System
PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., Piezo Nano Posiioning
A new hexapod system from Physik Instrumente is a 6-axis positioning system with a 1000-lb load capacity.
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Photonex 2014 - October 15-16, 2014 · Ricoh Arena, Coventry, England
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The UK’s showcase event dedicated to photonics and light technologies now incorporates Vision UK and highlights for 2014 include industrial vision, machine vision, scientific and hyperspectral imaging.
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Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazines (Photonics Spectra, Industrial Photonics, BioPhotonics and EuroPhotonics). Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Managing Editor Laura Marshall at laura.marshall@photonics.com
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