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Breaking Ground Now: Next-Gen Giant Telescopes
The largest telescope on Earth is currently the Gran Telescopio Canarias in the Canary Islands of Spain, which was built in 2009 with an aperture of 10.4 m. This 10-m design will hold the record for another four to eight years, but a new crop of next-generation telescopes now under construction will make a technological leap in instrumentation and size – some to 30 and 40 m. And that will change everything. Upon its scheduled completion in 2022, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will
Photonics Spectra, November 2014
MWIR for Remote Sniffing and Locating of Gases
A mid-wave infrared camera visualizes methane gas cloud leaking from a drilling platform. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is significantly more damaging than carbon dioxide. When it leaks uncontrolled from industrial plants, it can easily escape...
Photonics Spectra, November 2014
Understanding Passively Q-Switched Solid-State Lasers
The operation of Q-switched lasers can be quantitatively understood – with huge benefits for laser design. In the September issue, we covered the operation and design of actively Q-switched lasers; this second part covers passively Q-switched...
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
Additive Manufacturing: The Laser Source Is Critical
Laser beam power, spot size and focal point must be measured and controlled to produce parts to specification through 3-D printing. Laser-based additive manufacturing (AM) involves the deposition of a precise amount of material in a layer- by-layer...
Photonics Spectra, October 2014
Bandwidth Demands Drive Fiber Optics Advances
Data centers and other applications are pushing changes in long-haul and short-haul fibers. Fiber optics connects the world, carrying calls and data. With bandwidth demand growing, manufacturers are working to up transmission rates, cut costs and...
Photonics Spectra, October 2014
Keeping Optical Tables Steady
Experimental results from a scanning laser Doppler vibrometer elucidate the effects of active vibration damping. Vibration presents a major challenge for precision experiments and manufacturing processes in optoelectronics. Optical tables and...
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
Lasers Help Carmakers Chase Fuel Efficiency
Laser-based technologies and techniques including drilling, welding and measurement allow auto manufacturers to keep pace with the demand for lower emissions. For car manufacturers, the number 54.5 looms large. That’s the mile-per-gallon...
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
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
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