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Telescope Design Optimization for Performance and Manufacturability
Case Study: Telescope Design Optimization for Performance and Manufacturability Key Takeaways Design optimizations enhanced telescope manufacturability and performance. ...
July 28, 2025
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Key Takeaways: The 50X long working distance microscope objective lens offers high magnification for clear visualization in biomedical and precision testing applications. ...
July 21, 2025
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Discover how Dr. Chanda’s groundbreaking approach to uncooled, tunable infrared detection using graphene could revolutionize everything from night vision to space exploration....
Sept. 25, 2025
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Explore imec’s cutting-edge photonics technologies—including silicon photonics and hybrid platforms—for optical interconnects, sensing, and quantum. Learn about key challenges...
Sept. 23, 2025

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Episode 62 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features some never-before-heard excerpts from a few of our past interviews.
July 29, 2025
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FIGURE 1. Hairpin welding for electric motors.
Laser welding innovations in sources and components are improving efficiency.
July 28, 2025
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In Hutzler's laboratory at Caltech, the Matisse Ti:sapphire laser, coupled with the Mixtrain SFG system, performs spectroscopy and laser control of cold atoms and molecules used to search for new fundamental particles and forces. Above, a graduate student adjusts locking electronics on the IR Ti:sapphire seed to excite an optical transition to a metastable triplet state of neutral radium-226 atoms, which induces accelerated formation of new radium-containing molecules.
Case study: MKS Inc. shares how some of its gear is used by three different quantum research labs within the U.S., and expert advice to avoid lab pitfalls.
July 23, 2025
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Photon PRO laser diode modules feature an IP67 stainless steel threaded housing, near-end-of-life monitoring, and are waterproof and dustproof for use in harsh environments.
July 22, 2025

Optics

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The TA Series of Sunfort dry film photoresist is designed for advanced semiconductor packages used in applications such as artificial intelligence (AI) servers.
July 28, 2025
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The in-line multimode fiber speckle homogenizer significantly reduces modal noise within multimode fibers.
July 26, 2025
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The L-511 linear micropositioning stage provides minimum incremental motion down to 20 nm.
July 24, 2025
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Episode 61 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Hamed Sattari, CEO of CCRAFT, a Switzerland-based photonic chip foundry.
July 22, 2025

Quantum

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The team’s experimental device under a microscope.
Stamp-sized microcavity devices filled with triplet acceptor molecules have been used for the first time to prevent fast radiative emission of Dicke quantum batteries, while retaining...
July 16, 2025
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Photon-photon scattering effects within the lab: When two green petawatt lasers’ beams collide at the focus of a third red beam to polarize the quantum vacuum, it enables a fourth blue laser beam to be generated—with a unique direction and color. Credit: Zixin “Lily” Zhang
Simulations via advanced computational modeling recreate vacuum four-wave mixing—a quirky quantum phenomenon—and now this “solver” is poised to unleash new physics at extremely...
July 9, 2025
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Episode 59 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Matthew E. L. Jungwirth, manager of technical content & scientific publishing at SPIE.
July 8, 2025
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The 2024–2030 Quantum Technologies Market Forecast in US$M.
Photonics enables qubit platforms to function and scale toward practical machines—and demand for specialized lasers will grow as quantum computing scales.
July 8, 2025

Test/Measurement

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The SpectralLED RS-9 Series tunable light source platform offers an expanded spectral range from 360 to 1000 nm.
July 16, 2025
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FIGURE 1. Tunoptix computational meta-optics.
Meta-optical spectral imaging is transforming hyperspectral imaging from bulky lab systems into scalable, real-world solutions.
July 7, 2025
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The QCA Series high-speed communication analyzer supports optical and electrical signals up to 58 GBaud.
July 4, 2025
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A 30-mm double-sided electro-optical wafer tester works with existing semiconductor automated test equipment (ATE) architectures.
June 24, 2025

Detectors/Imaging

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PL-D USB 3.0 cameras use a Gpixel GMAX4002 sensor with a 1/1.7 in. optical format.
July 30, 2025
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First-look imagery captured by the world's largest astronomical camera reveals over 2,000 never-before-seen asteroids.
July 21, 2025
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The compact MX1276 high-resolution cameras offer 127.6 Mpixels, with an effective resolution of 13,400 × 9,528 pixels.
July 18, 2025
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Lynred ToolBox (LTB) is a software solution designed to evaluate the company’s infrared (IR) modules and sensors.
July 6, 2025

Executive Forum

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