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Force/Torque Sensors Expand Robotic Capabilities Mar 19, 2018 — The sense of touch is in high demand during automation, especially in the automotive industry, where tolerances are often very tight. As they work more closely with humans, robots need to sense their surroundings accurately and precisely and accomplish many tasks requiring the dexterity of the human hand. Pin insertion is a standard technique in the automotive industry that demands sensitivity and submillimeter tolerances. Force/torque sensors can feel very small counterforces and make the
Industrial Photonics, Apr 2018
Improving Automation with 3D Vision Mar 7, 2018 — If a traditional picture is worth a thousand words, what’s the value of a 3D image? Quite a bit when it comes to automation. Consider a robot picking a part out of a bin in an automated assembly line. “If you want to accurately grab a...
Industrial Photonics, Apr 2018
Remote Noninvasive Sensor Monitors Multiple Bioparameters Mar 6, 2018 — Photonic-based sensing is an evolving field that provides a large variety of possible biomedical applications for home care diagnosis. Various aspects of light and photons can grant us the ability to create smart sensors based on imaging tools for...
BioPhotonics, Apr 2018
Sensor Balancing Act for UAVs Jan 25, 2018 — Commercial applications such as crop disease detection, environmental monitoring, geological exploration and infrastructure inspection are prime examples of how the confluence of drones and sensing instruments is evolving globally. On-demand data...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2018
Mastering Machine Vision Dec 12, 2017 — As competition increases and customer requirements become more stringent, machine vision technology is becoming imperative for companies in manufacturing. Vision systems provide an automated and repeatable way of performing the quality control and...
Industrial Photonics, Jan 2018
Terahertz Window Offers Untapped Potential Oct 3, 2017 — Sandwiched between the infrared and microwave parts of the electro-magnetic spectrum lies the terahertz window — a valuable and largely untapped portion of energy that can reveal a huge variety of unknowns, from hidden weapons and suspicious...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2017
NIRS and Chemometrics Offer Insights Into Earth’s Surface Sep 29, 2017 — When applied to hyperspectral remote sensing images, the techniques of near-IR spectroscopy (NIRS) and multivariate chemometric calibrations, such as partial least squares regression, enable quantitative mapping of the properties of Earth’s...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2017
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Wearables for Work Sep 21, 2017 — While consumer goods such as smart watches and glasses attract attention, demand for wearable computing devices for enterprise, industrial and professional applications is also growing. Because such devices are connected computers, they enable users...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2017
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Detector Options for Low-Light Applications Aug 31, 2017 — Developed in the early 1990s, the silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is a solid-state photodetector whose sensitivity to light rivals that of a photomultiplier tube (PMT) in a regime where a few hundred photons per second illuminate the detector. A very...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 2017
Shrinking FT-NIR Spectrometers Empower Consumers, Businesses Aug 22, 2017 — 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, Oct 2017
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For Ultrafast Photonics, New Applications Emerge Jul 31, 2017 — Ultrafast lasers can do a lot, including create a room-temperature superconductor. That type of material transformation is just one emerging area of ultrafast photonics. Today, new ultrafast photonics applications found in lasers and sensors enable...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2017
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Sensor Market Set to Soar Jul 28, 2017 — It is no secret that CMOS image sensor technology has undergone a rapid transformation. Driven by the consumer cellphone market’s insatiable demand for fast, high-quality images, there has been substantial investment in CMOS sensor technology,...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2017
Embedded Vision Propels Bead Inspection May 23, 2017 — Automotive designers are more frequently turning to structural adhesives as a solution for strengthening, structurally optimizing and lightweighting automotive bodies. These adhesives enable mixing material types to achieve lightweight structures...
Industrial Photonics, Jul 2017
Demanding Applications Call for Reflective Objectives May 3, 2017 — Laser systems costs are falling, leading to their increased use in a host of demanding applications from machining to hyperspectral imaging. Often in these cases, a small, diffraction-limited spot size is required. When specifying a microscope...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2017
Fast and Sensitive Mid-IR Detectors for Gas Sensing May 2, 2017 — Demands from industrial, petrochemical and new medical diagnostic applications are very wide-ranging — from air quality, emission monitoring and leak detectors, to breath analyzers and explosive material sensors. For many years, mid-IR...
EuroPhotonics, Jun 2017
Designing Lighting Systems Tuned to Circadian Rhythms Apr 25, 2017 — There is a lot of interest these days in the physiological effect of light on the human body. Variously referred to as human-centric lighting, biological lighting, or circadian lighting, all reflect the emerging understanding that light can have a...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2017
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Added Intelligence Transforms Medical Sensors Into Diagnostic Devices Mar 21, 2017 — As sensors shrink in size, they are able to reach places that were previously inaccessible — such as inside the human body. What is more, incorporating such increasingly tiny sensors within a medical device means there is more space left for added...
Photonics Spectra, May 2017
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Superluminescent LEDs Bridge the Gap Mar 10, 2017 — Superluminescent light-emitting diodes are broadband semiconductor devices that are closely related to their more commonly known relatives, laser diodes and light-emitting diodes. All three architectures consist of positively (p)-doped and...
Photonics Spectra, May 2017
Defense Drones Take Sensing to New Heights Mar 3, 2017 — They’re lurking in the air in the trouble spots around the world, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq and Syria, to the disputed waters of the South China Sea. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are acting as the...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2017
High-Speed IR Detectors Aid Ballistic Testing Mar 2, 2017 — For many years, high-speed visible cameras offered the ability to stop motion on fast-moving objects and provided unique insight through slow-motion playback for high-speed applications such as ballistics, munitions and tracking applications....
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2017
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From Crop Science to Space Exploration, Optical Sensing on the Rise Feb 24, 2017 — From smartphones, smart homes and autonomous vehicles to crop science, food inspection and space observations, optical sensors are finding increasing use in the commercial sector. Image sensing evolved from the military arena to commercial...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2017
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Compact UVC Laser Shows Promise for Biomedical and Environmental Sensing Jan 23, 2017 — Advances in sensor technologies and the more widespread deployment of sensors are continually improving safety, quality of life and industrial productivity. Many of the most reliable chemical, biological and gas sensors are in some way based on...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2017
Prism Awards: The Oscars of the Industry Nov 30, 2016 — The industry is primed and ready for Photonics West 2017. It’s a time for networking, sharing products and research, and learning. It’s a time to recognize the world’s top innovators, as well. This largest conference and expo in...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2017
The Revolution Has Just Begun:
Q&A with John Bowers Nov 28, 2016 — One of the foremost names in the world of integrated photonics is John Bowers, Ph.D., who is credited with leading a team that successfully demonstrated an electrically pumped hybrid silicon laser a decade ago. That advance has paved the way for the...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2017
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Medicine and the Life Sciences Nov 21, 2016 — Imagine testing for a host of diseases and conditions in a single sample of blood, saliva, urine or even a few tear drops. Cancers, heart conditions, viruses, food allergies and sepsis are just some of the tests that could be carried out using...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2017
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