• Top ten photonics posts from September 2017

    10 most viewed business and technical posts on the Laser Focus World website in September 2017.
    Oct. 3, 2017
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    In case you missed them, here are the 10 most viewed business and technical posts on the Laser Focus World website in September 2017. Interesting to see the range of topics and formats, from webcasts to blogs and features.

    Numbers 1-4: A four-way tie among these webcasts:

    - Optical tolerancing, by Richard Youngworth of Riyo

    - A tunable LED light source for camera & image calibration, by Trevor Vogt of Gamma Scientific

    - Raman Spectroscopy Applications /Tips and Tricks, by Sebastian Rémi of Princeton Instruments

    - Industrial ultrafast fiber lasers achieve sub-150 fs pulse duration, by Sterling Backus of KMLabs

    Number 5: DragonflEye backpack turns actual insect into optogenetically steered drone, by Senior Editor Gail Overton

    Number 6: The secret of EUV generation, by Contributing Editor Andreas Thoss

    Number 7: Amorphous diamond could be new optical and photonic material, by Senior Editor John Wallace

    Number 8: Hamamatsu to acquire UV light-source maker Energetiq Technology, by Editor in Chief Conard Holton

    Number 9: Raman Spectroscopy: Spectroscopy system outperforms MRI for invasive cancer detection, by BioOptics World Chief Editor Barbara Gefvert

    Number 10: Multiphoton microscopy pushes the boundaries of biomedical research, Technical Digest by Toptica Photonics

    And P.S., Number 11 was yet another great webcast on Optical Tolerancing:

    A Guide to Tolerancing of Optical Coatings, by Angus Macleod of The Thin Film Center

    About the Author

    Conard Holton

    Conard Holton has 25 years of science and technology editing and writing experience. He was formerly a staff member and consultant for government agencies such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and engineering companies such as Bechtel. He joined Laser Focus World in 1997 as senior editor, becoming editor in chief of WDM Solutions, which he founded in 1999. In 2003 he joined Vision Systems Design as editor in chief, while continuing as contributing editor at Laser Focus World. Conard became editor in chief of Laser Focus World in August 2011, a role in which he served through August 2018. He then served as Editor at Large for Laser Focus World and Co-Chair of the Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar from August 2018 through January 2022. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, with additional studies at the Colorado School of Mines and Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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