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Printed Optics Usher in New Era of Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing techniques are set to revolutionize fabrication and integration of optical products for a variety of applications, from lighting to imaging and beyond. Additive manufacturing techniques are creating a new awakening in optics and photonics, and two factors that will expand this reawakening are digital computing and a new fabrication method for functional optics. Industry experts have a clear vision of 3-D printing’s role in the optical market. They also have a
Photonics.com, December 2014
Automated Fiber Aligners Improve Packaging
Computer-controlled fiber alignment engines help process engineers achieve higher throughput in photonics packaging applications. Fiber alignment used to be a tedious manual task, back before the telecom boom. But automated fiber aligners have...
Photonics Spectra, December 2014
OPO-Based Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Speeds Up Gas Analysis
High mid-IR output power from an optical parametric oscillator teams up with novel cantilever-enhanced photoacoustic measurement technology to offer extreme sensitivity and selectivity in industrial gas analysis and monitoring. The ultimate...
Photonics Spectra, December 2014
'Internet of Lights' Meets Industrial Internet of Things
A network of LED lights can be controlled with new levels of ease and precision using commercially available intelligent lighting modules and control networking solutions. The initial promise of LED lighting was to deliver more efficient lighting...
Photonics Spectra, November 2014
Short-Pulse Lasers Enable Transparent Materials Processing
In several industries, an increasing need exists to cut, drill and mark glass, sapphire and diamond – materials that are difficult to machine using traditional mechanical methods due to their brittleness and hardness. Their transparency at...
Photonics.com, October 2014
Shorter Wavelengths, Pulses Power Laser Manufacturing
Recent laser advances are bringing benefits to manufacturing applications involving drilling, cutting and welding. More powerful diode lasers could, in the future, do more of these jobs directly, instead of being used to pump another material. The...
Photonics.com, October 2014
Gas Purging Keeps UV Systems Healthy
Photochemical deposition of organic films is a significant cause of performance loss in ultraviolet systems; when feasible, it can be reduced or eliminated with inert gas purging. Ultraviolet photons are highly energetic – enough to break...
Photonics Spectra, October 2014
Micro Thermal Camera Opens Applications to Consumers
Personal thermal imaging just got affordable – but the technology can be used in various industries, too. Thermal imaging is hardly new, but most of us don’t carry thermal imagers in our pockets. Not yet. But it could happen soon, thanks...
Photonics Spectra, October 2014
Diode Lasers Break into New Wavelengths, New Applications
New wavelengths, new production technologies and microassembly are all expected to help extend the reach of diode lasers in the future. The field of diode lasers is a dynamic, fast-developing area, enabling new applications to emerge continuously....
Photonics.com, September 2014
Lens-Free Microscopes Offer Real-Time Bio Imaging
A totally different type of microscope will be much smaller and less complex than traditional microscopes, but more powerful. Two years ago, a customer handed Richard Stahl and the imec team a challenge: one year to develop a microscope that could...
Photonics.com, September 2014
SWIR Applications and Challenges: A Primer
Infrared imaging opens endless possibilities for industrial, scientific and security image-processing applications. But short-wave infrared cameras must overcome the limitations of InGaAs sensor technology to provide high-quality images....
Photonics.com, September 2014
Dual-Band Monitoring Keeps Trains Running in Winter
Keeping critical parts of the railroad infrastructure free of snow, sleet, hail and ice – and even detecting unauthorized persons walking the rails – is essential for a safe and uninterrupted transportation service. Dual-band monitoring...
Photonics Spectra, September 2014
Laser Technology Enhances Experience for Sports Fans, Refs
A laser device helps spectators and officials to better visualize important markers, so that people in the stadium have the demarcation information offered to TV viewers at home. Science and technology are inextricably linked with sports. Over the...
Photonics Spectra, September 2014
QDs Generate Light for Next-Generation Displays
Large color gamut and better color reproducibility will be highly desired features of displays in the near future. Quantum dots will be the down-conversion technology of choice, allowing LCD makers to cost-effectively reach and exceed 100 percent of...
Photonics Spectra, September 2014
Solar Cell Materials: Finding a Happy Medium
Marrying the low cost of thin-film and the efficiency of crystalline silicon helps to improve solar cells. The solar industry is at another inflection point in its development. Costs have come down as a result of a significant increase in capacity,...
Photonics Spectra, September 2014
Understanding Actively Q-Switched Solid-State Lasers
With an increased quantitative understanding of the operation of Q-switched lasers come huge benefits for laser design. This first article in a two-part series focuses on actively Q-switched lasers; the second part, in a later issue, will cover...
Photonics Spectra, September 2014
Vehicle Vision Puts the 'Auto' in 'Automobile'
Vision systems are increasingly enabling self-driving cars to automatically park, maintain speed and prevent collisions. Can a world of ubiquitous self-driving cars be far off? Whether it’s a flying, automatically driven car like the...
Photonics Spectra, September 2014
Laser-Power Measurement Solves Challenges for Materials Processing
The days of finicky, unstable, high-maintenance laser systems are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Legacy laser systems are being replaced with better sources, components and total systems, bringing more robust laser processes to production...
Photonics.com, July 2014
Lasers Power Improved Materials Processing
For lasers, materials can present a manufacturing challenge. Polymers may be best processed with light of a particular wavelength, while metals may respond best to a specific power density. No matter the material, manufacturing fine features can...
Photonics.com, July 2014
Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers Take the Heat Out of Materials Processing
Ultrashort-pulse (USP) lasers have, since the late 1990s, been an exciting technology looking for opportunities to gain mass market application in industrial materials processing. In recent years, a wide range of new products offering innovative...
Photonics.com, July 2014
A Better Small View Can Yield a Big Impact
Microscopy is a key tool in materials science, especially in the development of new and better materials, and microscopy methods keep advancing. As things get smaller, faster and cheaper, the stakes get higher – especially for the materials...
Photonics Spectra, July 2014
Novel Laser-Power Sensor Improves Process Control
A new type of laser-power detector delivers fast speed and high laser-damage resistance, enabling real-time process control in embedded systems. Lasers process a wide range of materials in an extraordinarily diverse array of applications that often...
Photonics Spectra, July 2014
Optical Filters Open Up New Uses for MWIR, LWIR Systems
The future for photonics imaging is bright in a previously dark wavelength regime: The ability to image ‘invisible’ features such as thermal profiles, gases and other environmental constituents in a commercially viable manner has begun...
Photonics Spectra, July 2014
Slow Light: Moving Out of the Lab
When put into practical use, slow-light-enhanced technologies will improve the performance of photonic networks and optical sensors. Photonic crystals will play a key role in the transition, as they hold promise for integration into nanophotonic...
Photonics Spectra, July 2014
Next-Gen LED Lamps Bring Costs Down
LEDs top almost every other illuminant in lifetime and performance, but – unfortunately – also in production costs. This is where molded interconnect devices come in, offering considerable freedom for the arrangement of LEDs and much...
Photonics.com, June 2014
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