Blue Lasers Meet Tough Commercial Requirements

The development of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting has been a great success story of our times. LEDs are nearly ideal light sources that have largely replaced other lighting technologies, except...

A research team from imec has developed perovskite-based LEDs that emit light 1000× brighter than OLEDs. According to the researchers, the advancement is a pivotal milestone toward a perovskite...

Photoacoustic (PA) technologies offer a noninvasive approach to probing biological tissues, but have seen limited use in clinical applications, partially due to bulky, expensive laser sources. A...

Courtesy of iStock.com/MotoEd. After years of investment and research, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are cheaper and brighter than ever before, and they consume less power. With reliability...

The LX02 KW VCSEL Line Beam Transmitter Module from Focuslight Technologies Inc. is designed for lidar applications. The laser transmitter uses 5-J, high-power VCSEL chips and beam-shaping...

The TUBELED_40 II from LED2WORK is a slim LED light family for machines and systems applications. Offered in both a standalone and cascading variant, the LEDs are safeguarded by thick safety glass...

The HCS-150-ZEB from Advanced Illumination is an LED lighting controller developed specifically for Zebra Iris GTX smart cameras. The controller is capable of directly powering the camera connected...

The series of colored LEDs from ams OSRAM are RGB versions of the previously released OSTAR® Projection Compact LEDs. Using a 2-mm² chip, the LEDs have a high luminous output, with the...

An interferometer is an instrument that compares the position or surface structure of two objects. The basic two-beam division of amplitude interferometer components consists of a light source, a...

The wavelength range of commercially available LEDs with single-element output power of at least 5 mW is 275 to 950 nm. Each wavelength range is made from a specific semiconductor material family,...

An integrating sphere’s function is to spatially integrate radiant flux (light). However, before one can optimize a sphere design for a particular application, it is important to understand how...

In the beginning, automated inspection focused on the camera and optics, the algorithms, the interface hardware and the processor. Only rarely was attention paid to the lighting system or lighting...

The optoelectronic properties of an OLED device are mapped using an RMS1000 Confocal Raman Microscope in spectral and time-resolved photoluminescence and electroluminescence imaging modes. These...

We started developing FACs more than 15 years ago. The result is highly automated in-house processes which allow for competitive prices – even with high volumes. Diode lasers are efficient, compact,...

3m.i.k.r.o.n.™ is the technology platform for compact, efficient, fast and reliable lasers for a wide range of potential applications in the field of medical engineering and industry.

3m.i.k.r.o.n.™ is the technology platform for compact, efficient, fast and reliable lasers for a wide range of potential applications in the field of medical engineering and industry.

Konstantin Birngruber and Max Eisele introduce TOPTICA's next-generation laser technology by highlighting multicolor light engines for standard fluorescence microscopy, as well as TOPTICA's...

High-power diode lasers have progressed significantly since their first appearance in the market. Today, these lasers are able to utilize high power levels and high-percentage electro-optical...

FREE WEBINAR Dr. Hamid Hemmati Supervisor, Optical Communications Group Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology In this talk, Dr. Hemmati will cover...

Every photonics application aims toward quality, precision, and speed. The latter improves performance and reduces costs for market advantage. This improvement in speed requires the efficient use of...

A diode laser is a type of laser that uses a semiconductor diode as the active medium to generate coherent light. Semiconductor diodes are electronic devices that conduct electricity primarily in one...

A helium-neon (HeNe) laser is a type of gas laser that emits visible red light at a wavelength of 632.8 nm. It operates based on the principle of stimulated emission of photons from excited helium...

Chip-on-board (COB) lights refer to a type of LED lighting technology where multiple LED chips are directly mounted onto a substrate, typically a printed circuit board (PCB), without the need for...

An LED, or light emitting diode, is a semiconductor device that emits light when an electric current passes through it. LEDs are widely used in various applications due to their energy efficiency,...

Edinburgh Instruments is a world-leader in both single photon counting and time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) based fluorescence spectrometers. Our product range includes: FLS1000...

In this month’s Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Springfield Technical Community College campus and introduce you to Professor Nick Massa, who has been teaching Optics and Photonics there for...

Tune into this month’s edition of Light Matters for the complete list of Photonics Media’s Industry Beacon award winners. We’ll also introduce you to an Industry Beacon in the Educator category, and...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we give you an in-depth look at the relationship between researchers and scientists at the University of California Davis, and surgeons and clinicians at nearby...

An infrared light-emitting diode (IR LED) is a semiconductor device that emits infrared light when an electric current passes through it. Similar to standard LEDs that emit visible light, IR LEDs are...

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. is a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic,...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

We are a manufacturer of Diffraction Limited Fiber Coupled Laser Systems, Optical Systems, and Fiber Optic Systems from 240 nm to 6000 nm. Unique products include various sizes of Fiber Collimators,...

AKELA Laser Corporation is a leading manufacturer of high-powered diode lasers specializing in custom laser diode products with wavelengths in any combination from 375 nm to 12 µm and output...