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Wednesday, December 19, 2018
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Quarterly newsletter from Photonics Media highlighting the latest photonics news, features and products from Europe. Manage your Photonics Media membership at Photonics.com/subscribe.
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Atomic Clock Determines Absolute Timing of Photoelectric Effect
According to scientists at the University of Vienna (TU Wien), it is now possible to measure the photoelectric effect. The TU Wien team, together with research groups from Garching, Munich, and Berlin, determined the duration of the photoelectric effect using a tungsten surface. When light falls on certain materials, electrons are released from their surface. In attoseconds, an electron from the material will absorb a photon, “jump” into another state, and leave the surface. This phenomenon, or photoelectric effect, is so fast that until now it has mostly been regarded as instantaneous.
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Fiber Optics Crucial to Future Datacom Transmission
Fiber optics technology plays a critical role within the telecommunications sector, thanks to the wide-scale and growing adoption of the technology in communication and data transmission services. Optical fibers are used in high-speed data transfer services, in both short- and long-range communications. Combined with the added surge in cloud-based applications, audio-video services, and video-on-demand technology, the market shows no signs of slowing.
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Display Manufacturing Enriches High-Tech Products
Cutting-edge technologies are creating opportunities for companies to produce increasingly higher-quality displays for consumer electronics — from big-screen TVs to smartphones. A highly visible example is the ever-increasing picture clarity in large-screen TVs, and in the evolution of smartphone products that have become essential social and productivity mobile companions to consumers in their everyday lives. High-tech display technology enables the development of these advanced products.
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EuroPhotonics - Winter 2018
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Piezo-electric Fiber Stretcher
Evanescent Optics Inc.
Model 915B Piezo-electric fiber stretcher provides up to 16um stretch for 9m of fiber from DC to 10kHz falling off to 0 @ 100kHz. Fiber is stretched and compressed by piezo wafers elastically mounted on the sides of an oval form. The fiber is stretched only on the straight portion of the oval, to prevent bend induced cross coupling in PM fibers.
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FREDMPC
Photon Engineering LLC
Unleash your engineering creativity and inquisitive mind with FREDMPC. Predict performance with higher confidence by tracing orders of magnitude, more rays, through your system. Experiment by varying more parameters to find the optimum hardware configuration. Ask more " What if...?"
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Let's Help Surgeons See More
SCHOTT AG, Lighting and Imaging
It’s not just quantity. It’s also the quality of light that determines endoscopy results. It makes providing surgeons with state-of-the-art equipment a real challenge. A challenge we help our partners rise to with customized fiber optics. Our solutions go beyond hi-res images.
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Alluxa Ultra Series Filters and Coatings
Alluxa
Alluxa Ultra Series Filters, including Narrowband, Dichroic, UV, IR, and Notch filters, provide the highest performance optical thin film solutions available today. For example, the Ultra Series Flat Top Narrowband filters offer the narrowest bandwidths and squarest filter profiles in the industry.
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It Just Keeps Getting Better....
Lumencor Inc.
Lumencor’s new SOLA SE nIR Light Engine with added Cy7 excitation.
- Breadth: UV + visible + nIR light: 350–760 nm
- Brightness: ~ 4.0 W optical output
- Control: Light on/off and graduated intensities
- Ease: No maintenance, no consumables, mercury–free
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Probe for Deep Neuronal Imaging Built Using Holographic Techniques
Using a multimode optical fiber as thin as a human hair, scientists at the Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology have observed at high resolution the neuronal structures inside deep brain areas of living mice. The researchers drew on holographic methods for controlling light to design a fluorescence imaging system compact enough to fit on the tip of a fiber.
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Researchers at the University of Plymouth (UP) have been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to advance nonfuel propulsion for space travel.
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The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and Forschungszentrum Jülich of Germany's Helmholtz Association, along with Canada’s TRIUMF, TRIUMF Innovations, D-Wave Systems Inc., and 1Qbit, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly establish corresponding German and Canadian quantum computing and machine learning networks and to collaborate on applied quantum computing and machine learning initiatives of mutual interest.
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Coming in the Next Issue...
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Features
CMOS Imaging for Machine Vision; Spectroscopy, Optical Components for Defense and Security; EPIC Insights
Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazine EuroPhotonics. Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Senior Editor Justine Murphy at [email protected], or use our online submission form www.photonics.com/submitfeature.aspx.
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