Coherent Rofin’s NEW FP 010 is the ultimate fiber laser for your precise application needs

Feb 23rd, 2017
Coherent Rofin’s FP 010 is one of the latest products added to the company’s broad portfolio. It offers the highest beam quality currently available at this power level which provides superior results for your precision ablation and surface structuri
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Mikrotron cameras help drug-dispenser manufacturer optimize manufacturing processes

Decade-long use of a high-speed camera from Mikrotron uncovered manufacturing errors, helping Nemera optimize syringe production and numerous other processes.

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A Mini Blackbird SXGA MWIR detector is one of the MWIR detectors that SCD will provide in its three contracts.
Detectors & Imaging
SCD awarded several contracts to supply MWIR high-definition detectors

Three contracts totaling $40 million were signed with three different European and North American customers.

John Wallace
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Molex is opening an R&D facility in Bridgewater, NJ for wavelength selective switches for the growing datacenter interconnect market.
Fiber Optics
Molex opens New Jersey R&D facility for optical telecom components

The facility will be a center for excellence in wavelength selective switches for telecommunications and other high-performance networks.

Gail Overton
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An optical metamaterial surface plus liquid crystal form Lumotive's beam-steering approach for automotive lidar. This image is from Lumotive's website (www.lumotive.com).
Optics
Lumotive and Himax collaborate on metasurface approach to beam steering for lidar

Lumotive has an LCOS chip producer, Himax Technologies, for fabrication of its silicon-based metasurface beam-steerer.

John Wallace
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Military aircraft, missile tracking systems, and ground troops who rely on night-vision systems could benefit from a new generation of infrared imaging devices made with a powerful semiconducting material developed by University of Arkansas researchers and their colleagues at several institutions.
Detectors & Imaging
DoD awards University of Arkansas $7.5M to advance infrared detectors

The $7.5 million dollar award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is part of its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, or MURI.

Gail Overton
Aug 30th, 2019
The 200 mm wafers are contrasted in size with the new 300 mm wafers produced using nanoimprint lithography (NIL) to support glass technologies for augmented reality/mixed reality (AR/MR).
Optics
EVG & SCHOTT partner on 300 mm NIL wafers for AR/MR components

The work will take place at EVG’s NILPhotonics Competence Center, an open innovation incubator for nanoimprint lithography (NIL).

Gail Overton
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The new laser facility is opened in Kassel, Germany.
Lasers & Sources
HÜBNER Photonics opens new facility to manufacture quantum & AR lasers

The new facility will help them meet the growing demand they see for tunable single-frequency laser sources.

Gail Overton
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These sensors from the SmartSens/MEMS Drive partnership will feature added stabilization control to the rotation of the sensor, achieving optimal stabilization with no less than 5 axes.
Detectors & Imaging
SmartSens partners with MEMS Drive on CMOS chip-based image stabilization

The companies will collaborate on research in the field of CMOS chip-level optical image stabilization (OIS) technologies for new application areas.

Gail Overton
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Lasers & Sources
Laser printing produces waterproof energy-storing e-textiles in minutes

The next generation of waterproof smart fabrics will be printed with conductive graphene elements using a combo of CO2 and ultrafast lasers.

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