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Fiber Optics: Fiber Optic Amplifiers Jan 1, 2000 — Optical amplifiers will soon become smarter. To meet dense wavelength division multiplexing needs, erbium-doped fiber amplifiers boost optical signals across multiple wavelengths. As communications systems add more wavelengths, however, erbium-doped fiber’s challenges are becoming increasingly apparent. Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers are assemblies of devices, including pump lasers, passive components, erbium fiber and a microprocessor. As such, their manufacture represents an...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2000
Imaging/Detectors: CMOS Detectors Jan 1, 2000 — Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) active-pixel image sensors have found application in areas such as videoconferencing, security surveillance and machine vision. Active-pixel CMOS devices use less power and cost less than traditional...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2000
Instrumentation & Accessories: Positioning Jan 1, 2000 — Decades ago, few people believed that industry would ever need to move macroscopic bodies by nanometers. Today it is a necessity. One example is in data storage. With the constant need for more storage capacity in smaller packages, drive components...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2000
Instrumentation & Accessories: Test Equipment Jan 1, 2000 — During this decade, the telecommunications industry has been making a transition from a slowly growing network optimized for voice traffic to one whose bandwidth needs are exploding to keep pace with data exchange between computers. Fiber optic...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2000
Lasers and Light Sources: High-Power Diode Lasers Jan 1, 2000 — During the last several years, high-power diode lasers based on bars have developed rapidly both in optical output and in lifetime. In only five years, the typical output from a single commercially available diode laser jumped from 20 to 50 W...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2000
Lasers and Light Sources: Industrial Lasers Jan 1, 2000 — The market for industrial lasers has largely been dominated by high-power CO2 and lamp-pumped Nd:YAG lasers. These devices have provided cost-effective access to high-power infrared and visible laser emission for applications that include cutting,...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2000
Lasers and Light Sources: Making Photons Jan 1, 2000 — By valuing reliability, efficiency and economy above gadgetry and engineering elegance, the communications, medical and manufacturing markets are changing the laser business. These customers are generously rewarding laser manufacturers who can share...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2000
Lasers and Light Sources: UV Lasers Jan 1, 2000 — One application trend vital to the future of UV laser makers has been the miniaturization of electronic devices brought on by an explosive demand for communications and information technology. As demand increases for portable gadgets such as...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2000
Optics, Materials & Coatings: Micro-Optics Jan 1, 2000 — The telecommunications industry was one of the first users of micro-optics, back in the 1980s. The integration of semiconductor lasers, micro-optics and fibers into small packages was the economic basis of efficient optical networks. Today...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2000
From Earth to Space, Lasers Take on Pollution Oct 1, 1999 — Recent advances in solid-state-laser and nonlinear optics technology are increasing the performance, versatility and reliability of the lasers that we can design into sensing systems. The monitoring and management of air quality is of direct concern...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 1999
Plastics Learn to Love Lasers Oct 1, 1999 — For many years, Nd:YAG, CO2 and high-power semiconductor lasers have been successfully cutting, welding and marking on metals, ceramics and other materials. You need look no further than your computer keyboard or the buttons on your automobile radio...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 1999
Virtual Rays Enlighten Lamp Designs Sep 1, 1999 — To most engineers, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) seem rather simple, comprising a chip inside a plastic envelope with leads sticking out. When you apply current to one end, light comes out the other end. In fact, LEDs are quite a bit more...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 1999
Photonics Rolls Up Its Sleeves Aug 1, 1999 — As might be expected, photonics plays a major role in manufacturing. But the story is bigger than that. Thanks to the application of photonics in such critical areas as semiconductors, electronics and transportation, much of modern manufacturing is...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 1999
Photonics Under the Microscope Aug 1, 1999 — Predicting funding trends for laboratory research is more of an art than a science. Science at least follows some semblance of fixed natural laws that under repeatable conditions produce repeatable results. These natural laws, unfortunately, do not...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 1999
Framing the Future: Jul 1, 1999 — Electronics and semiconductor manufacturing are the two top markets for machine vision products, accounting for an estimated $620.4 million in North American machine vision revenues in 1998, according to the Automated Imaging Association. Because...
Photonics Spectra, Jul 1999
Optical Old-Timer Finds a New Niche Jul 1, 1999 — Calcium fluoride springs out of the IR to open a window for deep-UV semiconductor lithography. Calcium fluoride (CaF2) is something of a prima donna in the world of optical lens materials. Even where it occurs naturally as the mineral fluorite, the...
Photonics Spectra, Jul 1999
PhotoICs: Jul 1, 1999 — The engineers who design and develop new office and computer equipment, consumer products and industrial machinery are facing increasing end-user pressures to reduce costs, increase reliability, add functionality, miniaturize the package and deliver...
Photonics Spectra, Jul 1999
Metal Fabricators Pack a Photonic Punch Jun 1, 1999 — In the mid-1980s, the laser emerged from the laboratory as a commercial tool for industrial applications in cutting, drilling, welding, marking, etc. Wary machinists found plenty of reasons to dislike the finicky, expensive tools. In 15 years, much...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 1999
Oozing Into the Breach Jun 1, 1999 — Synthetic optical gels fill in the gaps in photonic devices, offering a no-leak alternative to optical liquids and a viscous alternative to traditional epoxies. Since the mid-1980s, manufacturers have been filling their fiber optic splices with a...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 1999
Photonics Makes Connections in Space May 1, 1999 — The first round-trip space mission to Mars would to bring back rock and soil samples for laboratory study on Earth. A critical aspect of such a mission will be the automated separation of a surface lander from an orbiting mother ship, and its...
Photonics Spectra, May 1999
Progressive-Scan Gives You the Big Picture, Quickly May 1, 1999 — Global manufacturing competition and the ever-increasing requirements for improved product quality have placed greater demands on vision systems to acquire and process more visual information in shorter time periods. These demands have prompted the...
Photonics Spectra, May 1999
Ultrafast Lasers - Power Isn’t Everything May 1, 1999 — Ultrafast lasers are about to enable a variety of new scientific, engineering and industrial applications. These applications range from the technical, such as high-speed circuit testing and biological imaging, to more everyday applications such as...
Photonics Spectra, May 1999
(Emerging Technologies) Lasers: Apr 1, 1999 — Industrial and consumer applications in abrasives and machine tooling have used man-made diamond -- the hardest known material -- for more than 40 years. More recent research using lasers to create faster, more efficient methods for making superhard...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 1999
Night Vision: Apr 1, 1999 — General Motors is including a night-vision system with its newest Cadillacs, a breakthrough in mass consumer applications for a technology that has been under development for more than 50 years -- primarily for military use. From the introduction of...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 1999
Making it Bigger: Mar 1, 1999 — Many manufacturing processes utilize on-line microscopy. Microscopes (optical systems with magnification greater than one) align, inspect and guide robotic assembly of precision parts. Microscopes are quite different from cameras with smaller...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 1999
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