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Neuromorphic Processing Set to Propel Growth in AI Mar 19, 2021 — Increasing volumes of data required for smart devices are prompting a reevaluation of computing performance, inspired by the human brain’s capabilities for processing and efficiency. Smart devices must respond quickly, yet efficiently, thereby relying on processor cores that optimize energy consumption, memory access, and thermal performance. Central processing units (CPUs) address computing tasks sequentially, whereas the artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm for deep learning is based...
Vision Spectra, Mar 2021
ASLMS 2021 Examines Laser-Based Treatments, Diagnosis in Online Setting Mar 18, 2021 — Following the cancellation of last year’s event, this year’s conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) will rebound with a virtual presentation of the latest in laser-based science and research. Registration is open...
BioPhotonics, Apr 2021
Thermal Imaging Takes the Temperature of New Applications Mar 5, 2021 — While thermal infrared imaging technology was once limited to defense and government-funded applications, it has become more mainstream over the past few decades. The growing awareness of the technology’s industrial benefits has primarily been...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2021
Freeform Micro-Optics Reel Off New Applications Mar 5, 2021 — Much attention is given to freeform optics fabrication, which has improved the performance of traditional micro-optic imaging systems1. But replicated freeform micro-optics are also fostering advancements across a broad spectrum of applications...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2021
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High-Energy Lasers Advance Defense and Industry Mar 3, 2021 — Ever since the laser first appeared in the public consciousness, popular culture has reframed it as a prospective weapon of infinite range and power. This is largely because popular culture is unshackled from the concerns of engineering and physics....
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2021
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Worsening Wildfires Spark Photonics Demand and Innovations Mar 2, 2021 — In October 2016, a downed powerline sparked a wildfire that raged for two weeks and destroyed more than 18,000 acres in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests west of Pueblo, Colo. The so-called Junkins fire ended up destroying nine homes and 17...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2021
Photonics Reduces Size, Weight, and Power for Defense Systems Mar 1, 2021 — Many modern troops go to battle carrying up to 80 lbs of gear per soldier. Approximately 20 lbs of this weight can come from batteries for radios and electro-optics. Reducing a soldier’s burden improves mobility and mission effectiveness and reduces...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2021
Microscopy Technique Enhances 3D Imaging Capability Feb 11, 2021 — Optical microscopes use light to visualize detailed structures of small samples. The most popular microscopy technique for biological or biomedical studies by far is wide-field microscopy, in which a sample, such as tissue, is imaged through a...
BioPhotonics, Apr 2021
Evaluating Illumination Options for Telecentric Imaging Feb 5, 2021 — For machine vision applications requiring telecentric lenses, the proper illumination can be critical to the success of the imaging system. Achieving properly angled, even illumination can greatly affect the contrast of the image and the accuracy of...
Vision Spectra, Mar 2021
3D Vision Bolsters Robotic Bin Picking Feb 2, 2021 — For robots, unstructured bin picking has traditionally been challenging, if not effectively impossible. Part of the reason is mechanical, since getting a robotic arm into a bin and securing its grip on a part to pick can be difficult. Another...
Vision Spectra, Mar 2021
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...
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
Diode Array Spectrometers Augment Fluorescence-Based Research Jan 25, 2021 — Fluorescence spectroscopy is an established method for detecting concentrations of biological material in medicine or in environmental analysis. The key benefit of using fluorescence over other techniques of spectral analysis such as UV absorbance...
BioPhotonics, Apr 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
Spectroscopy Takes Root in Agricultural Analysis Dec 29, 2020 — Technical advancements have dramatically changed the processes that people use when farming. For example, to ensure optimal crop placement and fertilization, optical sensing techniques provide finely detailed analysis of local soil characteristics...
BioPhotonics, Apr 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
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