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Positioning Technology Proves to Be Pivotal in High-Precision Manufacturing
As it relates to semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, miniaturization seems to have no limits. A simple examination of the components and even many of the finished devices fabricated in today’s manufacturing environments makes it easy to perceive this trend. Yet despite the ubiquity of miniaturization in modern manufacturing, the processes and technologies necessary to fabricate nanostructures present dynamic challenges. Manufacturers supporting the semiconductor and consumer...
Photonics Spectra, January 2025
A Small Photon Source Promises to Enhance Quantum Communication
In recent years, quantum computers have made headlines, while quantum communication solutions have made it to markets. Simple solutions, such as quantum random number generators, have been transferred into smartphones. Similar quantum encryption...
Photonics Spectra, January 2025
Illuminating the Future: Navigating the Integrated Photonics Industry and Supply Chain
The integration of photonic devices at the wafer scale has emerged as a transformative force, offering a reliable and scalable pathway to implement complex photonic functions cost-effectively on a chip. While integrated photonics has long been...
Photonics Spectra, January 2025
Charting the Path Toward 1.6T and 3.2T Optical Module Solutions
The relentless expansion of data communication, propelled by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workloads, as well as cloud computing, cloud storage, AR/VR, video on demand, 5G technology, the Internet of Things, and...
Photonics Spectra, January 2025
Nonvisible Imaging Streamlines Nano and Advanced Manufacturing Applications
To produce faux marble kitchen countertops, a manufacturer places a piece of solarized polypropylene — a thermoplastic polymer material — on top of white stone. To ensure that a successful bond is created, the stone must contact the nonsolarized...
Photonics Spectra, January 2025
Microprocessing Is Ready for More
Laser microprocessing has been on the rise for decades. While technological roadblocks have influenced this progression, a close look at these roadblocks reveals that each has advanced to maturity. Productivity is key, and laser sources, scanners,...
Photonics Spectra, January 2025
Ready for Takeoff: Drone-Based Sensing Takes Flight
Mines are inherently challenging places to work, but even within such an environment, certain tasks are considered particularly risky. In the aftermath of a blasting operation, for example, miners must assess the resulting opening in the rock and...
Photonics Spectra, January 2025
Shrinking Optics Heighten a Focus on Manufacturing and Metrology
The transition of micro-optics from an emerging field into a cornerstone of modern optical systems offers considerable evidence in support of the commercial potential of light manipulated at microscopic scales. And, as the micro-optics technology...
Photonics Spectra, January 2025
A Quantum Tool Set Could Reshape Laser Beam Profiling
With applications for lasers constantly expanding, the need to precisely monitor the lasing process to ensure optimal and repeatable performance places stringent requirements on beam-profiling mechanisms. Industry widely agrees on many of the...
Photonics Spectra, December 2024
Adapting Metallic Coatings for Dynamic Applications
As with all products for which a variety of options is available to consumers, and for which application ultimately determines consumer selection, each type of metallic coating offers its own unique set of benefits and shortcomings. By carefully...
Photonics Spectra, December 2024
Laser-Textured Components Pervade Consumer and Industrial Markets
The range of benefits that laser texturing technologies offer, which span those in the critical areas of precision, performance, and efficiency, are direct drivers to the expansion of laser texturing’s application into multiple industries. At...
Photonics Spectra, December 2024
Advancing Spectroscopy Solutions Help Clear the Air
Ensuring that air quality is safe for humans and other forms of life is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. The average person will inhale ~79,250,000 gallons of air in their lifetime. Simply walking a city street, a person...
Photonics Spectra, December 2024
Advancements in High-Power Laser Diodes Fuel Essential Applications
More than 30 years ago, acclaimed physicist Edward Teller said, “No one should use a laser unless it’s a diode laser.” Although those of us engaged in the manufacture of laser diodes will perhaps be forgiven for our uncritical...
Photonics Spectra, November 2024
Embedded Vision Systems Usher Deep Learning into the Imaging Domain
How would one decide which potato to select out of a group? Most people have an intuitive sense that guides them when selecting a spud, for example, at the market or from the garden, but it becomes difficult to pen an authoritative description of...
Photonics Spectra, November 2024
Optoelectronic Solutions Give Rise to Terahertz Sensing
The terahertz portion of the electromagnetic spectrum refers to the frequencies between ~100 GHz and ~10 THz. This corresponds to wavelengths between 3 mm and 30 µm. Lying between the electronic realm at lower frequencies and the optical...
Photonics Spectra, November 2024
Fourth-Generation Optics Surmount the Limitations of Planar Optics
A micrometer-thin film coated over a flat glass substrate can deflect a light beam in the same way as a prism. This film can be fabricated to be structurally smooth, at a molecular level, and as clear and haze-free as a polished window of fused...
Photonics Spectra, November 2024
Electric Vehicles Drive the Need for Advancement in Laser Welding
Propelled by legislation that aims to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), automakers around the world are facing growing pressures to ramp up production. Japan, Canada, and the U.K. are among the world powers that have already...
Photonics Spectra, October 2024
LEDs and Multi-Bandpass Filters Work in Tandem to Transform Fluorescence Instrumentation
Fluorescence stands as a cornerstone technology in the realm of bioanalysis. Fluorescence is one of the most sensitive spectroscopic quantification techniques, and fluorescence microscopy methods, including wide-field and confocal microscopy, enable...
Photonics Spectra, October 2024
Motion Control Upholds Micromachining’s Dynamic Role in Complex Manufacturing
Laser micromachining has proved to be revolutionary in modern manufacturing, enabling the creation of intricate features at the micro- and nanoscale. Laser micromachining and microprocessing envelop various similar, yet distinct, processes. These...
Photonics Spectra, October 2024
Test Design Kits Accelerate a ‘Fab-less to Lab-less’ Transition
Increased demand for datacom transceivers and a surge of applications that rely on AI and quantum technology have combined to drive significant growth in integrated photonics. Market research published this spring by IDTechX now values the photonic...
Photonics Spectra, September 2024
Lessons from the Past Shape the Future of Large Optics
In the 1990s, several daunting technological challenges converged, redefining both the perception and parameters of large optics. With the unprecedented demands of initiatives, such as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National...
Photonics Spectra, September 2024
Polymers and Liquid Crystals Harness the Power of Polarization Control
In his early works on polarization, luminary physicist William Shurcliff offered a powerful sentiment: “If light is man’s most useful tool, then polarized light is the quintessence of utility.” Considerable evidence, both in the...
Photonics Spectra, September 2024
Meta-Optical Metrology Clears a Path for New Characterization Methods and Products
Meta- and nano-optics are on a fast track to a wide array of photonics systems and commercial solutions, enabling advancements that extend beyond the capabilities of more common and traditional optics. At the same time, owing to metaoptics’...
Photonics Spectra, September 2024
Lasers Accelerate the Application of Secondary Sources, Among Others
For many years, secondary sources were just a vision held by scientists. Eventually, their progress was driven by the goal to build a particle accelerator, such as the Large Hadron Collider in a laser lab at the European Council for Nuclear Research...
Photonics Spectra, August 2024
Visualizing Brilliance: Exploring Optical Design Through Simulation
From medical devices to precision instruments used for industrial manufacturing, innovative optical technologies are being increasingly integrated into products across numerous industries. The micro- and macroscopic optical components constructed...
Photonics Spectra, August 2024
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