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MEMS Features
Programmable Photonic Chips Adapt PICs to Multiple Futures
While electronics are perfect for performing fast calculations, photonics are ideal for moving information around. A major drawback of the latter, however, is the slow and costly development process for new photonic integrated chips, hampering their...
Photonics Spectra, April 2023
Digital Micromirrors Reveal New Opportunities for Near-IR Spectroscopy
Since its emergence in the 1990s, digital micromirror device (DMD) technology has been used extensively in display applications for conference rooms and cinemas. The technology has also supported dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM)...
Photonics Spectra, February 2021
The New Technologies Shaping Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is the branch of vibrational spectroscopy related to the molecular absorption of light between ~750 to 2500 nm, which has a variety of industrial and medical applications. This region of the electromagnetic spectrum...
Photonics Spectra, February 2020
Wafer-Level Optics Enable Small-Form Photonic Sensors
For many years, innovations in sensors for mass markets such as automotive, gaming, and consumer electronics have been driven by the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) industry. MEMS-based sensors are well known to provide solutions for a...
Photonics.com, March 2020
With Innovations, Lasers Boost Performance
With their performance rising, semiconductor lasers may be able to best their fiber-based counterparts in a wide variety of applications. On the horizon are potential game changers, such as high-power blue laser diodes and organic laser diodes. But...
Photonics Spectra, January 2020
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Trends in Industrial Laser Solutions
The demands on lasers grow as the need for precision in manufacturing and other applications increases. In general, lasers enable processes that cannot be performed economically in any other way — such as drilling holes, selectively removing...
Photonics Spectra, January 2019
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For Small MOEMS, Big Opportunities Lie Ahead
Following the path of semiconductors and mechanical devices, optical systems are shrinking in size and growing in capabilities, thanks to micro-optoelectromechanical systems (MOEMS). These combine electronics with mechanical and optical components....
Photonics Spectra, June 2018
Breakthrough in Fabricating Active-Matrix GaN Microdisplays
The growing interest in wearable devices has highlighted the need for high-performance microdisplays. Such displays are based on technologies that include reflective or transmissive liquid crystal displays (LCDs), organic LEDs (OLEDs) or MEMS-based...
Photonics Spectra, January 2018
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Optical Techniques Tackle Nanoscale Measurements
Materials at the nanoscale can behave in surprising ways. While the properties of macro materials can often be predicted, the behaviors of a material invisible to the naked eye can differ greatly. Providing insight into this nanospace is essential...
Photonics Spectra, December 2017
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Shrinking FT-NIR Spectrometers Empower Consumers, Businesses
Chip-scale sensor integration has brought us to the edge of new market opportunities that are poised to transform business practices and consumer lifestyles. The ability to incorporate miniaturized sensors into small devices and broad networks means...
Photonics Spectra, October 2017
3D Displays Get Closer but Face Hurdles
For viewers, a trip into the third dimension is getting cheaper and more satisfying. It also could be getting a lot nearer, driven by changes in photonics, optics and the market. Further out lies the possibility of 3D displays that mimic what is...
Photonics Spectra, October 2016
Trends in The Economy
Advancing technologies, broader applications and societal trends are impacting both the industry and the economy. No trends issue would be complete without a discussion about the global economy and its impact on the photonics industry – as...
Photonics Spectra, January 2015
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
3-D Printing Readies for Takeoff
Advances in laser sintering 3-D printing speed up production of parts with complex geometries, all while cutting costs. If it can overcome challenges including a lack of standards, training and design tools, it could be unstoppable. From fabricating...
Photonics Spectra, June 2014
Consumers Dominate MEMS Market
The microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) market is expected to surpass a staggering $11 billion by 2012, according to Yole Développement, a French market research and strategy consulting company specializing in the MEMS, compound...
Photonics.com, August 2010
Dual-Mirror Adaptive Optics Systems
Researchers worldwide have leveraged advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirror technology by using adaptive optics to correct for wavefront aberrations caused by distortion. Now, the next generation of adaptive optics systems is using...
Photonics Spectra, June 2010
Adaptive Optics in Biological Imaging with Two-Photon Microscopy
Cutting-edge biological microscopy has enabled researchers to explore tissue at the subcellular level in vivo. Having the ability to observe physiological processes in vivo has led to breakthroughs in our understanding of cancer, eye disease and...
Photonics Spectra, December 2009
Flat Screens Go Deep – and More
The Duchess of Windsor was half right, at least as far as displays are concerned: They really never can be too thin, as evidenced by the rise of flat screens of all varieties and of displays that can be virtually anywhere. But as for being too rich,...
Photonics Spectra, September 2009
It’s Two, Two, Two Tools in One
If a surgeon is about to use a probe in the brain, the patient is sure to want that probe to be as small as possible. And three University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), researchers have developed technology that could lead to tinier probes that...
Photonics Spectra, September 2009
Sensors on the Frontiers of Physics
Computer chips based on light as opposed to electricity have only been theorized, but now researchers are actually developing computer chips that will use light for computer functions. At Yale University in New Haven, Conn., members of Hong...
Photonics Spectra, September 2009
Fatal Attraction
Since their advent in the 1980s, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micro-size machines with moving parts, have promised to revolutionize all aspects of industry by putting small, less power-hungry compact systems on a chip. But integrating MEMS...
Photonics Spectra, November 2008
Veeco Instruments Wins Circle of Excellence Award
Responding to the needs of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturers for an effective and dynamic measurement technique, Veeco Instruments Inc. of Tucson, Ariz., has developed the Wyko Dynamic MEMS measurement system to control the...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004
MEMS Are on the Move in Europe
Nanotechnology may be the latest buzzword, but its predecessor — microtechnology — has yet to reach its full potential. Although much hype is being made of the idea of nanomachines, researchers around the world are still trying to make micromachines...
Photonics Spectra, December 2003
Micromachining Medical Devices: Finding the Right Remedy
Emerging challenges in micromachining include the need to process materials at faster speeds, in a wider range of materials and with greater precision and repeatability, and to micromachine features of increasingly smaller dimensions with...
Photonics Spectra, December 2003
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