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Vision-Guided Systems Bring Precision to Fluid Dispensing Jul 30, 2019 — Robotic fluid dispensing is essential for applications that require extremely accurate and repeatable fluid deposit placement, complex dispensing patterns, and/or high-volume throughput. The precise positioning and quantity of these fluids deposited on a substrate is vital to the assembly, function, quality, appearance, and viability of products. Such precision repeatability also optimizes fluid usage, reducing waste and production costs. Critical to this performance is the robot’s...
Vision Spectra, Sep 2019
OLED Modules for Textile Integration Jul 25, 2019 — Flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) elements are destined for integration into textiles, and they promise to be an optimal technology for integrating light into clothing and other cloth surfaces. The demand for flexible OLED integration...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2019
Photoluminescence Spectroscopy Optimizes Perovskite Quantum Dots Jul 25, 2019 — Perovskite semiconductors have attracted tremendous attention in recent years because of the rapid rise of perovskite solar cell efficiencies — from less than 10% to more than 20% in less than five years — and the potential for the...
EuroPhotonics, Sep 2019
Innovative Design of Optical Systems Boosts Industrial Metrology Jul 22, 2019 — Image sensor evolution has been extremely expansive since the first digital camera was created in 1975. In more recent years, increasing use of image sensors has rapidly driven camera chip evolution in many aspects: resolution, sensitivity,...
EuroPhotonics, Sep 2019
Display Manufacturing Enriches Consumer Products Jul 16, 2019 — Consumer electronics are growing more sophisticated, at breakneck speed and with remarkable advancements in technology and refinement. A highly visible example is the ever-increasing picture clarity in large-screen TVs, and in the evolution of...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2019
Demand for Versatile CMOS Sensors Continues to Grow Jul 12, 2019 — Twenty-five years ago, physicist and engineer Eric Fossum predicted the end of the charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging sensor. Fossum, a Dartmouth University professor who was then at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab just north of Pasadena, Calif.,...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2019
For Carmakers, Inspection Flexibility Makes the Difference Jul 11, 2019 — Building a car is a complex process, and it’s getting more complex every year. There are thousands of parts to inspect for quality and conformance to ever tighter specifications. What’s more, these parts must be tracked, and variations...
Vision Spectra, Sep 2019
Fiber Optic Sensors Compete in Environmental Monitoring Market Jul 10, 2019 — Modern societies are facing rising concerns about global environmental issues, including an alarming rise in pollution of our seas, waterways, land, and air. As we bear witness to widespread industrialization along with mass consumption trends,...
EuroPhotonics, Sep 2019
Fixing Image Warping Caused by Heat-Induced Turbulence Jul 5, 2019 — It is well known from astronomical imaging that numerous atmospheric conditions and weather effects have an impact on image quality. This is caused by local changes in the refractive index of the air in the optical path. These changes are...
Vision Spectra, Sep 2019
Data Centers and More for Silicon Photonics Jul 2, 2019 — Decades of research and development are finally paying off for silicon nanophotonics. The silicon optical transceiver market, for example, is projected to grow nearly twentyfold in volume over the next five years, much of it driven by the needs of...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2019
Robust Optical Materials for Aerospace and Laser Applications Jun 27, 2019 — While single-crystal materials and ceramics are not as widely used for optical applications as glass, there are niche applications, such as aerospace, submarine optronic, and high-energy laser windows, for which these materials are favored. The...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2019
Protecting Photonic Quantum States Using Topology Jun 25, 2019 — The use of topology to protect quantum information is well known to the condensed-matter community and, indeed, topological quantum computing is a burgeoning field of research. It is one of the competing avenues to demonstrate that quantum computers...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2019
Visible Entangled Photons from an Ultrafast Fiber Laser Source Jun 24, 2019 — Entangled photons are key to the development of optical quantum technologies such as enhanced metrology, computing, and communication. It is projected that the global quantum communications market will reach $1.53 billion by 2023, with an estimated...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2019
Long-Lifetime Laser Diodes for Space Jun 20, 2019 — There has been a flurry of announcements in the news recently about low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations, which are primarily expected to be able to provide wideband internet anywhere in the world. Many of these satellite networks will require...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2019
Optical Advancements Enable High-Precision 3D Imaging Jun 19, 2019 — As robotics and automation change the face of manufacturing, demands on industrial inspection have increased. Advancements in engineered point spread function (E-PSF) technology are now allowing manufacturers to incorporate high-resolution 3D...
Vision Spectra, Jun 2019
Laser Triangulation Tackles Imaging Tasks Big and Small Jun 16, 2019 — Spurred by technological advancements, 3D vision has in recent years moved into the mainstream of automation. The benefits of 3D are increasingly in demand and, as a consequence, the number of vendors offering it has grown dramatically, while the...
Vision Spectra, Jun 2019
Great Expectations for Vision-Guided Robotics Jun 15, 2019 — As the manufacturing world considers the potential for Industry 4.0, machine vision for industrial robotic guidance continues to be a critical enabling technology for realizing the diverse needs of flexible automation and smart manufacturing,...
Vision Spectra, Jun 2019
Coherent Diffraction Imaging Expands Researcher Tool Set Jun 13, 2019 — Both optical and x-ray microscopy are well-established tools, but nanoscale imaging with light in the intermediate range — specifically the extreme UV (λ ~8 to 80 nm) — has been neglected. This has been primarily because of a gap...
BioPhotonics, Aug 2019
Innovations in Flow Cytometry Expand Its Use in Clinical Diagnostics Jun 12, 2019 — The outstanding achievements of immunologists James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo — winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation — are at the forefront of an...
BioPhotonics, Aug 2019
NIRS Surpasses Conventional Diagnostics for Orthopedics Jun 11, 2019 — As the aging population continues to grow, the number of people suffering from musculoskeletal diseases, such as osteoarthritis (OA), is expected to drastically increase. The symptoms of OA are diverse and include pain, soreness, and stiffness of...
BioPhotonics, Aug 2019
Multispectral Imaging Aids Wound Healing, Pathology Research Jun 11, 2019 — From airborne mapping to astronomical imaging to manufacturing inspection, multispectral imaging (MSI) has long been the go-to tool for extracting crucial details, often from distant views. Today, MSI is making promising inroads in biomedical...
BioPhotonics, Aug 2019
Integrated Photonics Looks to Advance Safety for Lidar Jun 6, 2019 — The history of radar (radio detection and ranging) dates back to the 1880s when renowned German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects. Based on the principles demonstrated by Hertz, Christian...
Photonics Spectra, Jul 2019
On the Shoulders of Giants Jun 6, 2019 — For millennia, scholars in the old and new worlds have realized that their efforts depend largely on the works of those who came before. The “eureka!” moments experienced by scientists and other observers of nature do arise, but there...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2019
A History of the Laser: 1960 - 2019 Jun 6, 2019 — In 2020, the laser turns 60. This is a timeline of some of the more notable scientific accomplishments related to light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (laser). An interactive version of the laser timeline is available, as well as...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2019
Laser Pioneers Jun 4, 2019 — Listed here are many breakthroughs that followed the first ruby laser demonstration. Nearly all of the devices mentioned have played major roles in science or everyday life, and continue to today. This brief list of pioneers — not exhaustive...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2019
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