Photonics Spectra: beacons This is the syndication feed for Photonics Spectra: beacons. https://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?Tag=beacons Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:30:48 GMT Mon, 07 Aug 2017 08:58:29 GMT 1800 Beacons of the Photonics Industry
For the second year running, Photonics Media is honoring those in the photonics and optics industry whose outstanding contributions have advanced light-based technologies in the scientific, business, academic and consumer communities. Industry Beacons are nominated by you, our readers, and selected by the editorial staff of Photonics Media.

What follows are short profiles of this year’s 15 winners — three from each of our five categories. This year featured two new categories; honorees in the “leaders” category are outstanding executives who lead companies or divisions and have left their mark by building market share, introducing product lines or leading an expansion in a product category. Our “industry...]]>
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Integrated photonics, infinite possibilities
Disruptive technologies such as self-driving cars, optical computers and ultrafast telecommunication networks all require one thing to come to fruition: more complex integrated photonic circuits. For that to happen, researchers must continue to push the limits of materials used to fabricate waveguides, filters, couplers and modulators found on the circuits.

In our cover story, “For Integrated Photonics, a Tale of Two Materials” (read article), we chronicle efforts to integrate III-V materials onto silicon wafers, and highlight recently commercialized components from the likes of Kaiam and Mellanox, and the potential role of graphene for use in high-speed optical modulators and detectors.

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Applications growing for mid-IR lasers
New military and sensing applications are expected to drive the mid-IR laser market in the next few years. These new segments will grow approximately 30 percent per year, compounded annually through 2014, according to a report titled Mid-Infrared Lasers 2010 from Strategies Unlimited.

The report, published in September 2010, examines the spectrum region from ~1.8 to ~15 μm.

“What is new is the use of new types of lasers for military applications, followed by a wide array of sensing applications, from industrial process controls and environmental monitors to hazardous chemical detection and new medical diagnostics,” said Dr. Tom Hausken, director of photonics and compound semiconductors at Strategies Unlimited.

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