Photon Focus

Highlights

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Test & Measurement

Business Forum: The wages of photonics: A salary survey

April 1, 2019
The ninth annual Optics & Photonics Global Salary Report from SPIE shows the continuing rise in income associated with jobs in photonics—along with a few surprises.
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Research

Medical lasers

April 1, 2019
Editor in chief John Lewis discusses the Laser Market Review & Forecast report and invites you to enjoy Laser Focus World’s April 2019 issue, which includes trends in photonics...
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Commentary

Trumpf: Lack of staff limits digital transition

March 29, 2019
Trumpf is greatly increasing investment in IT, but still can't hire enough people to fill its positions; the company is making progress in other ways, though.
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Commentary

Riding the winds of change: Photonics in 2019

March 28, 2019
As you will read in this Report on the 31st annual Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar, the revenue numbers remain good for lasers and across many photonics markets - but the...
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Commentary

OFC 2019 postdeadline papers push frontiers

March 27, 2019
Late news highlights include 0.7 petabits/second in 2000 km of 7-core fiber, radio over fiber for 5G networks, direct detection of a terabit per second, and 400-gig links that...
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Commentary

Recording the spectrum of the whole sky

March 5, 2019
NASA's SPHEREx satellite will use an off-axis spectroscopic telescope with continuously variable filters to perform the first spectral survey of the whole sky.
Lasertel focuses on custom high-power laser diode configurations, which can have short turnaround requirements.
Lasers & Sources

Business Forum: High-power laser diodes, niche by nature - an interview with Mark McElhinney

Feb. 1, 2019
An interview with the president of Lasertel shows how a flexible, custom manufacturing approach to laser sources can drive growth
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Commentary

Keeping photonics on the European agenda

Jan. 31, 2019
Three Nobel laureates, as well as major European photonics associations, are lobbying to keep photonics in the EU's next budget.
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Research

Another record year

Jan. 31, 2019
Editor in chief John Lewis invites you to enjoy Laser Focus World’s January 2019 issue, which includes trends in photonics technologies, applications, and markets, along with ...