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Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
With advanced tech, mirrors can be made with high accuracy.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
The main Photonics West exhibition opens on Tuesday, January 25.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Fiber laser machinery, polishing pitch, beam collimators, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
At 3 p.m. on March 5, a gigantic furnace slowly started spinning underneath the stands of Arizona Stadium at the University of Arizona. Fire-engine red, massive in size...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
On isolated mountaintops across the planet, scientists await word that tonight is the night. The complex coordination between dozens...
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Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
Silicon Carbide (SiC) optics are becoming more and more prevalent in high-energy laser (HEL) designs, and manufacturers must be aware of the potential risks
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Growing large-area graphene on optical substrates enables use in photonics devices.
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Briefs: Energy
Fano Resonance Optical Coatings (FROCs) can both transmit and reflect the same color simultaneously.
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Twelve years ago, physicists turned on the first x-ray laser, and since then it and several others around the world have proved themselves revolutionary probes of...
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INSIDER: Aerospace
Labsphere, Inc. announced plans to locate a Field Line of sight Automated Radiance Exposure (FLARE) testing site at Arizona State University's (ASU) Polytechnic campus as part...
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NASA Spinoff: Robotics, Automation & Control
With a clever design by NASA, waiting for hot water could be a thing of the past.
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Q&A: Electronics & Computers
Professor Qiaoqiang Gan of the University at Buffalo (NY) and his team developed a unique two-in-one system that uses solar energy for simultaneously cooling and heating — without electricity.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
The virtual event offers a mix of live plenary talks, on-demand technical presentations and discussions, online networking and special events.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This device fits on a computer chip but can analyze infrared light in the same way as a conventional spectrometer.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Compared to a LED, the omnidirectional laser light is much brighter and better defined.
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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Optics & Photonics Innovations - January 2021
An ultrafast camera that takes up to one trillion pictures per second...using light alone to levitate objects and propel spacecraft...the groundbreaking optics enabling the world's most powerful...

Briefs: Data Acquisition
The camera collects the spatial and spectral information required for self-driving cars, machine vision, corrosion detection, and other applications.
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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Once installed at Las Campanas Observatory in the Chilean Andes, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will introduce incredible opportunities for astrophysics.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Multi-sensor imaging systems, eyesafe laser finders, machine vision algorithms, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Traditional spark plugs are replaced by an optical pumping source.
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Products: Imaging
High-temp infrared emitter, single-frequency SWIR lasers, hazard testing systems, and more.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Flat-panel technology could transform antennas, wireless, and cellphone communications.
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Technology Leaders: Photonics/Optics
Make sure the polished optic meets the requirement of a particular application.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
In-line testing of certain LEDs, using nanosecond pulses, will become more and more relevant with time-of-flight applications.
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Technology Leaders: Nanotechnology
Highly technical glass-ceramic delivers optical precision at nanometer scale.
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Products: Imaging
High-speed cameras, ultra-stable mounts, automated inspection systems, and more...
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Application Briefs: Wearables
Learn abut Bosch Sensortec's “Light Drive” system.
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Briefs: Defense
The process provides a cost-effective solution for applications in space-based imaging systems, military reconnaissance, and satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Since 1998, almost 2,000 shoebox-sized satellites known as CubeSats have been launched into space. Due to their small frame and the fact that they can be made from off-the-shelf parts,...
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