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SOI Technology Lights Up the Next Wave of Photonics Solutions Feb 1, 2021 — Silicon has been the mainstay of micro-nanoelectronics since the late 1950s, being widely adopted for electronic devices and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technologies. In the early years of the semiconductor industry, germanium was the favored material for electronic applications due to its higher carrier mobility; however, innovations at Bell Labs in surface passivation by thermal oxidation processing enabled a breakthrough in silicon semiconductor technology in the second...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2021
Embedded Vision Is Streamlined for Application on a Massive Scale Jan 28, 2021 — Compact, efficient, and highly application specific, embedded vision technology increasingly offers performance and price points that would have been impossible to achieve only a few years ago. The steady advancement in capabilities has been driven...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2021
Multiband Optical Filters Are Telecom Networks' Multitaskers Jan 27, 2021 — Multiband optical filters have long been used in applications such as fluorescence spectroscopy, astronomy, and 3D cinema, to name a few. The ability to combine more than one spectral band into a single optical filter can enable flexibility of...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2021
Flow Cytometry Channels Photonics to Advance Immunology Jan 27, 2021 — The COVID-19 pandemic has put the field of immunology under an international spotlight. Researchers in the field have been rigorously studying our immune system’s response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus to understand how we combat infection....
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2021
Spectroscopy Becomes a Potent Part of Pharmaceutical Production Jan 26, 2021 — Fallout from the outbreak of COVID-19 continues to ripple across all sectors, and the photonics industry is no exception. But while the virus has raised challenges for many businesses, it has created opportunities for others. Innovative treatments...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2021
Eye Care, Laser Technology, and Imaging Modules Among 2021 Prism Award Finalists Jan 14, 2021 — Six biophotonics technologies that enhance retinal imaging, disease diagnosis, and surgical precision are among the 30 finalists SPIE has selected for this year’s Prism Awards. Winners in 10 categories will be announced as part of the SPIE...
BioPhotonics, Feb 2021
Fiber Lasers Continue to Power Growth Jan 12, 2021 — Early fiber lasers were inefficient and limited to low powers, until more effective methods emerged to deliver the pump light into the cladding. Valentin Gapontsev, founder and CEO of IPG Photonics, is credited with pioneering the use of distributed...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2021
Nonvisible Imaging Expands Resolution, Range, Applications Jan 5, 2021 — The ability to image beyond the visible spectrum offers more than a quantitative expansion of our perceptions. It also provides qualitative improvements with applicable value to public health, manufacturing, and the safety and quality of food. These...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2021
3D Imaging Sees Growth in Multiple Dimensions Jan 4, 2021 — From time to time, we all find ourselves forced to rummage through the cluttered jumble of our home “junk drawer” to dig out a screwdriver, battery, paper clip, or other much-needed object. For humans, this is merely cause for fleeting...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2021
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Lasers and LEDs Layer on New Capabilities for Additive Manufacturing Dec 31, 2020 — Additive manufacturing, aka 3D printing, offers an alternative to conventional manufacturing and assembly methods by building products layer by layer. In addition to enabling heretofore impossible part geometries, the technology also hints at a...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2021
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Growth in OLED Lighting Demands New Metrological Traceability Dec 31, 2020 — The increasingly broad transi­tion from incandescent light bulbs to OLEDs for general lighting poses new challenges to light measurement. OLEDs exhibit completely different and far greater variations in their spectral distribution. This variability...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2021
Digital Micromirrors Reveal New Opportunities for Near-IR Spectroscopy THOMAS P. RASMUSSEN, IBSEN PHOTONICS A/S Since its emergence in the 1990s, digital micromirror device (DMD) technology has been used extensively in display applications for conference rooms and cinemas. The technology has also supported dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM)...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2021
Pulsed Lasers Pierce the Diffraction Limit in Medicine Dec 17, 2020 — Optical imaging of tissues in diagnostics is a burgeoning field of research, and related technology has shown the ability to provide rapid, sensitive, and specific data that discriminates disease-related characteristics. However, the depth at which...
BioPhotonics, Feb 2021
Chip-on-Tip Technology Expands Endoscopy’s Use in Localized Procedures Dec 15, 2020 — Many patients would prefer to undergo surgery in which tools enter their bodies through a natural opening or small incision, over an operation involving the opening of their chests or abdominal cavities. Improvements in medical imaging over the past...
BioPhotonics, Feb 2021
Photoacoustic Imaging Identifies Transplantable Kidneys Dec 14, 2020 — Chronic kidney disease is a condition that causes the gradual loss of kidney function over a period of months to years. The prevalence of the disease is worsened by the alarming rise of diabetes and hypertension, two of the most common causes of...
BioPhotonics, Feb 2021
Mobile Spectroscopy Enables Noninvasive Blood Hemoglobin Assessments Dec 14, 2020 — As one of the most routinely performed laboratory tests, a blood hemoglobin test is used to measure levels of the oxygen-carrying protein in the blood. Potentially reduced levels are commonly associated with certain conditions. Clinics order the...
BioPhotonics, Feb 2021
High-Speed Imaging Capabilities and Applications Expand Dec 8, 2020 — Fast and efficient delivery of product into the customer’s hands is the endgame in manufacturing. Any defect that occurs as products progress along the manufacturing line may be magnified, which can cause bottlenecks in production or require...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2021
Packing Light: Spectroscopy Goes Mobile Dec 7, 2020 — Portable spectroscopic instruments have dramatically expanded their capabilities and detection limits over the past 20 years, while becoming smaller, lighter, and faster. The examples of this today are legion. Portable laser-induced breakdown...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2021
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As Science Advances Lasers, So Lasers Advance Research Dec 6, 2020 — Lasers have been used to conduct academic research nearly since their invention in 1960, and these sources of coherent light quickly found diverse, if not precisely directed, applications. “Some of the earliest research was simply zapping anything...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2021
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An Essential Exchange of Ideas Would Benefit the Optics Industry Dec 3, 2020 — Highly dispersive mirrors, nanostructured coatings, and freeform optics are the vanguard in optics, and they are well positioned to expand performance and open up new applications. But there’s a caveat: Without better cooperation among...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2021
Emerging Applications Signal New Opportunities for Spectroscopy JOHN GILMORE, HAMAMATSU Advancements in spectrometer components and modules are converging with system-level designs to enable more compact, cost-efficient, and robust instruments that are extending the benefits of spectroscopy to current and new end markets. From inline...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2021
Laser Processing Tools Introduce Flexible Options for Brittle Glass Dec 1, 2020 — On Feb. 6, 2016, researchers from the University of Southampton Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) presented UNESCO with a small glass disc during the closing ceremony of the Year of Light. At the center of the disc was a dot measuring 1 mm in...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2021
For Smart Factories, a Vision of Success Nov 20, 2020 — Smart factories require collecting information about products, processes, and people to achieve highly automated manufacturing. In this undertaking, machine vision will supply key data. Traditionally, vision technology has performed parts...
Vision Spectra, Dec 2020
Spectroscopy Guides Precision Medicine Nov 19, 2020 — Raman spectroscopy captures the effect when light partially scatters inelastically as it interacts with matter. The amounts of energy transferred between photons and molecules during this process correspond to specific molecular vibrations....
BioPhotonics, Dec 2020
AI + 3D Machine Vision Transforms Depalletization Nov 5, 2020 — Manually offloading pallets requires scores of employees to work nonstop. Extensive job and safety training is required, and because the task is physically demanding, injuries often result, leading to increased absenteeism. These are a few of the...
Vision Spectra, Dec 2020
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