Photonex 2014

Lithium fluoride fluorescent crystals track high-energy heavy ions such as iron

Single-layer OLED design could dramatically reduce display costs

When illuminated with laser light, a liquid-crystal elastomer robot (inset) about 1 cm long crawls up walls and across ceilings just like the banded snail sitting next to it.

Light-activated LC elastomer propels biomimetic “snail robot”

$Operation principles of a differential diffractive optical neural network. Since diffractive optical neural networks operate using coherent illumination, phase and/or amplitude channels of the input plane can be used to represent information.$

Photonex 2014

Lithium fluoride fluorescent crystals track high-energy heavy ions such as iron

Single-layer OLED design could dramatically reduce display costs

Light-activated LC elastomer propels biomimetic “snail robot”

With new differential detection scheme, all-optical diffractive neural networks get performance boost

Lasers for lidar and more

Business Forum: Laser markets evolve, price battles continue—an interview with John Ambroseo

QCL-based infrared spectroscopic ellipsometer rapidly acquires data

Large-field cryogenic objective mirror has nearly diffraction-limited performance

Metasurface optic for Gaussian beams accepts a nonplanar input beam

Nanoparticle-embedded stretchy optical fibers monitor body temperature

Frequency-comb Sources: One microresonator-based soliton comb replaces multiple WDM lasers

Spectroscopy/Optical Imaging: Fourier-transform analysis helps optical method improve RA detection

Optical Fabrication: Glassblowing technique creates arrays of axicon lenses

Quantum Sources: Squeezed quantum dots create coherent streams of quantum-ready photons

Photonics Modeling: Optical Ising machines solve complex engineering, science, and even business problems

Fiber-optic Components: Fiber-optic bundles provide 3D stereo imaging