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    In this episode: An optical system noninvasively measures blood samples, the latest business news headlines, and simulations provide a better grasp of quantum effects.
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    The team’s experimental device under a microscope.
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    FIGURE 1. Laser welding cylindrical Li-ion module setup.
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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
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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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    Unlock expert insights into laser welding for Li-ion battery modules! Join our webinar to explore critical techniques, from pulse shaping to intermetallic control with WonderBOARD...
    Aug. 21, 2025
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    Project Background A customer urgently needed two custom silicon lenses, one featuring a highly specialized diffractive surface. Their original supplier had failed to...
    July 3, 2025

    Lasers/Sources

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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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    The Class 80 OMFT dual-polarization IQ reference transmitter achieves data rates beyond 1.6 Tbit/s with baud rates >170 GBaud.
    July 10, 2025
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    The X-Cite TETREM four-channel, switchable LED light source streamlines fluorescence microscopy workflows.
    July 8, 2025
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    Sandia Physicist Raktim Sarma in the lab where they’re exploring chilling chips via light. Credit: Craig Fritz/Sandia
    Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico are working with startup Maxwell Labs to pursue laser cooling of graphic processing unit (GPU) chips at the nanophotonic...
    July 4, 2025

    Optics

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    Off-the shelf Omega Optical DUV transmission gratings are designed for deep-UV wavelengths between 190 and 400 nm.
    July 14, 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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    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

    Quantum

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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
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    For the photonics community, quantum networking is an opportunity to provide the critical infrastructure that transforms quantum computing into a world-changing technology.
    July 3, 2025
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    NIST researchers (left to right in back: Oliver Slattery, Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, and Thomas Gerrits, and Anouar Rahmouni in front) involved in the breakthrough.
    First chipscale entangled photon source on silicon carbide (SiC) creates a robust and scalable method for generating entangled photon pairs within photonic circuits.
    July 1, 2025
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    Doing optics/photonics/quantum work you're proud of? Show it off! Go ahead and "wow" us.
    June 25, 2025

    Test/Measurement

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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
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    TFLN external cavity chip on a penny. Credit: Shixin Xue
    Tiny lithium niobate laser provides fast and accurate optical measurements—which optical metrology and LiDAR both need to take their performance to the next level.
    June 23, 2025
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    The C16511-01 compact Fourier transform near-infrared (FT-NIR) spectrometer engine offers a spectral response ranging from 1100 to 2500 nm.
    June 12, 2025
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    Dasom Kim in the lab with the team’s setup at Rice. Credit: Jorge Vidal/Rice University
    A superradiant phase transition (SRPT) occurs when two groups of quantum particles start to fluctuate in a coordinated manner—without an external trigger—and end up forming a ...
    June 11, 2025

    Detectors/Imaging

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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
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    The shr811CCX12 machine vision camera has uses in wafer, solar panel, and display inspection applications.
    July 2, 2025
    FIGURE 1. L-arabinose isomerase structure at 1.52-Å resolution, determined via the Krios 5 Cryo-TEM. Data courtesy of University of BRIN, Indonesia. Protein is used for the development of sugar substitutes as well as the synthesis of antiviral drugs and other potential therapeutics.
    Advances in direct electron detectors, cryo-preparation techniques, and image processing software are dramatically enhancing the resolution and versatility of cryo-electron microscopy...
    July 2, 2025

    Executive Forum

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    June 30, 2025
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    Meet the Qunnect team.
    June 24, 2025
    Pim Kat, CEO of Amazec Photonics (left), and Eelko Brinkhoff, CEO of PhotonDelta (right).
    June 20, 2025