Laser Focus World Webcasts

Upcoming Webcasts

Low light NIR imaging and spectroscopy - A primer on InGaAs cameras

The webinar explains the basics of InGaAs focal plane array based NIR detection and detector performance criteria needed to achieve high signal-to-noise ratio.

Photon-Counting Detectors

This webcast delves into the technology behind the different types of single-photon detectors and the optimum applications for each of them.

On Demand Webcasts

Designing with Aspheres

Aspheres can be used to reduce complexity, cost and weight of optical assemblies-but how?  Learn from Christopher Cotton, GM and optical engineer for ASE Optics.  Where and how to use aspheres for best performance imp...

Optical Asphere Metrology

This webinar will explain specifying and tolerancing aspheric forms, today’s options for measuring aspheric form error, and how aspheric form determines manufacturing methods as well as influences metrology selection.

Laser Focus World White Papers

High-power diode laser pumps for alkali lasers (DPALs)

We present performance data of recent high-power laser diodes emitting at typical pump wavelengths for alkali vapor lasers: 852 nm for cesium, 780 nm for rubidium, 766 nm for potassium, and 670 nm for lithium atoms. Due to diff...

Filters for Laser Based Microscopes

Due to many desirable properties such as high brightness, stability, longevity, and narrow spectral bandwidth, lasers have been advantageously replacing conventional broadband light sources for fluorescence imaging application...

Multimodal Nonlinear Optical Imaging

Nonlinear optical (NLO) imaging is a powerful microscopy technique that has found increasing use in the field of biomedical optics. Ultrafast laser excitation is used to exploit several nonlinear optical effects that can provid...

Laser, Optics and Photonics Resource Center

Laser Focus World's laser, fiber optics and optics resource center provides the latest information for the photonics industry. Search white papers, webcasts, e-newsletters such as the Optoelectronics Report and Medical Laser Report, product and services guide and more.


Enewsletters

     Enewsletters

The Laser Focus World email newsletter covers business and technology news from the world of optoelectronics. Compiled by the Editors of Laser Focus World, for delivery on the first and third Tuesday of each month.

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Buyers Buide


   Buyers Guide

The Laser Focus World Buyers Guide provides a comprehensive listing of products and services from the major photonic companies in the industry, including detailed laser specification tables and dot charts that compare the attributes of photonic products from different suppliers. In addition to the product listings, The Laser Focus World Buyers Guide is available in print and online and includes advertising opportunities to highlight your company's product offerings.


Laser Focus World China

Launched in 2004, Laser Focus World China is tailored specifically for our readers in China, including the best international coverage of applications and technology from translated Laser Focus World editorial, as well as commercial and R&D developments for lasers in the local Chinese community. Circulation for Laser Focus World China reaches more than 8,000 readers in each issue. The magazine is typically published six times per year.


Laser Focus World Japan


Laser Focus World Japan represents an extension of the Laser Focus World brand and enables LFW to better serve an important element of the global marketplace. Laser Focus World Japan builds a bridge between global optoelectronics and photonics activities and those of the Japanese market.

Written in simplified Japanese and delivered every month to 12,0001 engineers and engineering managers throughout the country, LFW Japan is the first and only Japanese controlled-circulation magazine in the industry.


BioOptics World

BioOptics World is a bi-monthly magazine that provides news, analysis and explanation of applications involving lasers, optics and imaging systems in the life sciences. The magazine is dedicated to giving readers a firsthand look at cutting-edge research related to the design, development and utilization of optical technologies in the study, diagnosis and treatment of disease and disease processes.

BioOptics World is available by FREE subscription as an electronic (PDF) download. Subscribers must log in to download electronic issues.