CLEO 2013 Moves to June, Stays in San Jose

Featuring a program of more than 2000 technical sessions across 29 topic categories, plus plenary sessions, special symposia, and short courses, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)...

The membership of Optica elected James Kafka as the society’s 2023 vice president; Kafka is CTO at Spectra-Physics and an MKS fellow. Julie Sheridan Eng, CTO at Coherent Corp., and Ulrike...

Cepton has won a multimillion-dollar sales contract from one of the largest highway tolling system operators in the U.S., the lidar technology company said. Under the terms of the contract,...

Lumentum Holdings named Caroline Pan senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Pan will be responsible for leading strategic and corporate marketing and communications, and Lumentum...

The GVCM-019-022-02 Linear Voice Coil Servo Motor from Moticont is a 19-mm diameter drive with a 12.7-mm stroke. The small linear actuator features 2.3 N of continuous force and 7.4 N of peak...

The AccuFiz® D on-axis dynamic interferometer from 4D Technology Corp. features a 600-mm aperture beam expander, measuring remote cavities, optical thickness, and homogeneity, even in challenging...

The miniature GVCM-016-019-01M linear voice coil servo motor from Moticont features a 15.9-mm diameter with a force-to-size ratio of 1.5 N and peak force of 4.6 N. The compact housing is 19.1...

The PAVOS kW Ultra from Coherent Corp. is an optical isolator designed for high-energy ultrashort-pulse (USP) lasers. The device is specifically designed for applications involving USP lasers...

When purchasing an industrial laser system, the astute buyer will look for a Class 1 laser product — a system where the laser beam hazard is completely enclosed and there is no potential laser...

One of the most critical elements of any time-resolved spectroscopy and dynamics experiment is the optical delay line. A typical optical delay line consists of a retroreflector or folding mirrors on...

Given the pace at which technology advances, there always seems to be a learning curve. With the abundance of consumer electronics available, there typically is no right or wrong way to use these...

Aspheric surfaces are powerful tools that combine the optical corrections of multiple lenses into a single element (Figure 1) and affect performance in ways that spherical optics cannot. For example,...

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,...

OPTOMAN takes innovation very seriously and makes sure that optical components are able to resist the ongoing increase of laser power and decrease in pulse duration, thus high LIDT is OPTOMAN‘s bread...

Despite the rapid development of modern lasers, the Gaussian intensity distribution often leads to problems, especially in laser material processing. When welding wide weld seams, a top-hat profile...

Answering some common questions new users of optical design and analysis software have are “How accurate are the results?” or “Can I trust the results I get?” and discussing the importance of...

The Technology Transfer Program, part of the annual Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, is a chance for researchers to learn about turning their discoveries into marketable products. This...

This free webinar, sponsored by the Technology Transfer program of CLEO: Market Focus and Photonics Media, complements the live event, which will be held on Thursday, June 13, in the CLEO:2013...

The Technology Transfer Program, part of the annual Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, is a chance for researchers to learn about turning their discoveries into marketable products. This...

Metasurfaces based on subwavelength patterning have major potential for realizing arbitrary control of the wavefront of diffracted light by achieving local control of the phase amplitude and...

Free-space optics (FSO), also known as optical wireless communication or optical wireless networking, refers to the transmission of data using modulated beams of light through free space (air or a...

Cold atoms refer to atoms that have been cooled to extremely low temperatures, typically in the microkelvin (µK) to nanokelvin (nK) range, close to absolute zero (0 Kelvin or -273.15°C). At...

Nanophotonics is a branch of science and technology that explores the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, typically at dimensions smaller than the wavelength of light. It involves the study and...

A blue diode laser is a type of semiconductor laser that emits light in the blue wavelength range of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically between 400 and 500 nanometers. Diode lasers are compact,...

Millions of unexploded landmines and ordnance from World War II are still buried in countries around the world, injuring hundreds of thousands of people every year. Now, efforts to detect and remove...

On this week’s show, a new imaging technique targets tumors, a laser mirror counteracts deformation, photodynamic therapy pushes deeper into body tissue, and we talk with Toptica Photonics President...

Photonics and dance may seem to have nothing in common but, in fact, they do: The study of each involves energy and motion. And study them we do. But have you ever wondered what would happen… …if you...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

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

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...

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

CASTECH is a recognized leading supplier of nonlinear optical crystals, laser crystals and precision optical components for laser, telecom, medical, analysis and detector markets. Products...