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A New Wavefront of Adaptive Optics Promises Improvements Oct 4, 2021 — Adaptive optics (AO) technology enables Earth-based telescopes to take the twinkle out of the stars. The technology also helps in detecting and reversing eye disease, it improves the throughput of laser-driven manufacturing, and it has enabled the world’s most powerful lasers to achieve peak power. AO achieves these improvements by removing distortions endemic to optical wavefronts, thereby ensuring the clearest possible imaging, the highest laser power, and maximum manufacturing efficiency....
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2021
Novel CMOS Technology Reboots Vision-Guided Robotics Sep 30, 2021 — A vision-guided robot (VGR) system can be defined as a robot equipped with one or multiple vision sensors that effectively give the machine a sense of sight. While “blind” robots may suffice for certain simple applications, they quickly...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2021
Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers Power Options for Precise Machining Aug 31, 2021 — Laser technology has had a positive impact on a wide range of industrial manufacturing applications, from consumer electronics and clean energy to automotive and medical devices. Lasers have contributed to these applications by enabling the...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 2021
Laser Micromachining Fires Up the Next Little Thing Aug 3, 2021 — Driven by demand from automotive, electronics, medical devices, and other end markets, the micromachining market is on track to grow at a 6.9% compound annual growth rate over the next six years to reach a market value of $4 billion, according to a...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2021
Spot Cooling Helps Industrial Lasers and Optics Stay on Point Jul 30, 2021 — The increasing demand in many end markets for advanced manufacturing systems that are able to increase production and cut costs have positioned laser systems as an important fabrication tool. High-powered lasers, such as CO2 sources, are used for...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2021
Optical Glass Selection Is Not Always So Transparent a Choice Jul 28, 2021 — Optical designers have many glass types to choose from when developing assemblies for imaging applications. Typically, a variety of these material options is available to meet the desired design specifications of a partic­ular system. The challenge...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2021
Ruggedization Future-Proofs Lens Designs Jul 13, 2021 — As machine vision applications have expanded rapidly beyond the controlled environments of the factory, so too has the need for ruggedized lens designs that are able to meet more diverse and nuanced requirements. This is not to say that no demand...
Vision Spectra, Sep 2021
Technique Scales Up High-Volume Manufacturing of Micro-Optics Jun 30, 2021 — The market for smartphones, tablets, wearables, and other mobile devices continues to drive many advancements in optical sensors. More than a dozen types of sensors are being designed for next-generation smartphones, including 3D sensing cameras,...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2021
The Vision Spectra Conference Jun 2, 2021 — The first-ever Vision Spectra Conference, set for July 20-22, will feature dynamic speakers ranging from upand- coming entrepreneurs to recognized technology innovators. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and the Association for...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2021
Why SWIR Imaging? Insights on Its Practical Implementations May 28, 2021 — Originally developed for applications in defense, infrared scanning technology targeting the shortwave infrared (SWIR) band has become more widely adopted in many other applications over the last decade. From predicting water stress or detecting...
Photonics Spectra, Jul 2021
Beam Profiling: What Is Your Laser Not Telling You? May 4, 2021 — While it may seem intuitive that turning up the power on a laser will produce faster results in a materials processing operation, beam measurement tools often reveal that this only distributes the laser’s energy over a larger area, resulting...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 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
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
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
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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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
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
How Vision Systems Can Deliver More than the Sum of Their Parts Aug 25, 2020 — The use of both 3D-imaging technology and smart cameras is expanding the flexibility and capabilities of machine vision systems. Integrating these elements with advanced image preprocessing and intelligent software can further enable automated...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 2020
Vision Systems Perform Vital Checks on Medical Devices Jul 30, 2020 — Medical device manufacturing encompasses products that go inside the body, such as catheters and artificial joints. Other manufactured goods in this category include external devices that measure vital signs and other medically important parameters,...
Vision Spectra, Sep 2020
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
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
Lasers for Micromachining: Shorter Pulses, More Power Jun 5, 2018 — Smaller devices, tighter tolerances, and higher performance demand finer and finer features — hence the increasing need for micromachining. For lasers, this often translates into a requirement for shorter pulse widths. However, these must be at the...
Photonics.com, Jun 2018
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