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Flexible Film Creates Colors from Reflected Light June 2015 A team at the University of Central Florida’s College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) in June developed an ultrathin, color-changing film that reflects rather than emits light. This could potentially change the clothing we wear, in addition to enhancing displays. FIGURE GOES HERE====A National Geographic photograph of an Afghan girl is used to demonstrate the color-changing abilities of the nanostructured reflective
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From the ubiquity of smartphones to an aging population, the modern world offers the optical sector a wealth of opportunities to innovate for the health care sector. Optical technologies have a long history of providing a rapid and noninvasive way...
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CCD Sensors Remain Competitive with Broadening Appeal
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Ultraprecision machines can provide positioning and lathe centering of mounted lenses in high-performance optics production. Integrated software works with high-precision metrology to offer more economical production for small- and medium-sized...
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Nanoparticles: Probing the Plasma Threshold
Laser-induced plasma generation in nanoparticles has potential application in fields as diverse as medicine and materials processing. To fully harness this tool, it is important to understand how nanoparticles behave in strong laser fields and how...
Photonics Spectra, April 2015
Femtosecond Lasers Provide a Gentler Way to Micromachine
From the unbreakably hard to the vulnerably soft – from glass, metals and ceramics to plastics and biological tissue – femtosecond lasers are being increasingly adopted for micromachining a range of materials. Femtosecond lasers are...
Photonics.com, March 2015
Nanoimprint Lithography Enables Cost-Effective Photonics Production
The ability to create wafer-scale stitching-error-free patterns of nanostructures on bowed and warped surfaces and even on topography, as well as direct patterning of 3-D structures, makes nanoimprint lithography ideally suited for the needs of a...
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Trends in Miniaturization
Exploiting the unusual optical properties of very small objects, quantum-based technologies are starting to revolutionize lasers, solar cells, communications and more. Smaller is often better, as it frequently can reduce the size and weight of gear...
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Trends in New Materials
Scientists are developing an entirely new generation of ultrathin materials such as graphene and germanene, whose photonic properties promise a new frontier of components and devices. Graphene is a wonder material: a sheet of pure, stable carbon in...
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Nanotube-Based Solar Cells Make More of the Sun
They’re cheaper, lighter, flexible and easy to dispose – it’s little wonder that carbon nanotubes are grabbing the attention of solar cell specialists in Europe and beyond. Since they were first discovered in 1991, carbon nanotubes...
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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...
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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
Positioning System Advances Could Herald Smart-Factory Era
Optical positioning systems could be at the forefront of carrying factories into the fourth industrial revolution. Positioning systems are essential to ensure precision engineering in a number of manufacturing industries from lithography and...
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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...
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LEDs, Other Optoelectronic Components Merging for Emerging Applications
Advances in on-chip integration, materials and fabrication methods enable smaller, faster components for next-generation applications. The market for optoelectronic (OE) components – parts that make up other parts and connect between...
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Lasers Produce Bio-Inspired Surface Functions
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Market Growing for Laser-Based Machine Vision Technologies
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Nanophotonics Underpins Some Groundbreaking Technologies
Nanophotonics is now a major research theme in optical physics and engineering. Driven by the dream of untapped device functionality, nanophotonics studies the exciting science of the interaction of light with nanostructures, at the size scale where...
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Quantum Computers Appear – and Are Put to Work
Actual quantum computers are likely a decade or more away, but advances today are bringing them closer and closer. You can’t yet buy them online or at a big box store, but the day of quantum computers has drawn closer, thanks to recent...
Photonics Spectra, June 2013
Shorter Pulse Widths Improve Micromachining
Many cutting-edge applications are critically enabled by ultrafast lasers, but other demanding applications can now switch to a new type of subnanosecond solid-state laser. In recent years, Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers and...
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Photonics Industry Undaunted by Uncertainty
Despite lingering economic concerns, the photonics community is looking ahead to a brighter future – even if it means more work in the short term. Ask members of the photonics industry to describe the current state of the market, and the word...
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Prism Awards Finalists Offer Solutions to Big Problems
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