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Baffled by scatter? Do you have stray light problems?

Baffled by scatter? Do you have stray light problems?

We have the answers! Attend our “Mastering Stray Light Analysis” short course 30 October – 1 November 2019.

Mikrotron's MotionBLITZ Cube high-speed camera is used for troubleshooting purposes in manufacturing.

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.

A Mini Blackbird SXGA MWIR detector is one of the MWIR detectors that SCD will provide in its three contracts.

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.

Molex is opening an R&D facility in Bridgewater, NJ for wavelength selective switches for the growing datacenter interconnect market.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

The new laser facility is opened in Kassel, Germany.

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.

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.

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.

Laser Printed Fabric

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.

Laser Markets Research president Allen Nogee provides an update of the laser markets for the summer, in advance of his more exhaustive quantitative review that will appear in the January 2020 issue of Laser Focus World magazine.

2019 Mid-Year Laser Update

Margins are high enough on specialty lasers to counter some of the tariffs--not completely but partially.

James C. Wyant with Maria Ruiz in 2014, a first-year graduate student at the College of Optical Sciences, who that year received a Louise Wyant Memorial Scholarship in Optical Sciences. James Wyant and his family are now contributing $2 million and SPIE $500,000 to an educational-funding initiative for optics and photonics.

With $500,000 grant to University of Arizona, SPIE launches $2.5 million endowment matching program

Gooch & Housego (G&H) is partnering with Optex Systems to provide acrylic sighting instruments to the European market. Shown here are some Optex sighting systems.

Gooch & Housego partners with Optex to supply acrylic optics

The partnership combines Optex acrylic periscope products with G&H’s next-generation glass periscope hardware portfolio.

Thomas Crawford parlayed his research experience with disk drive technology into a startup company that eventually caught the eye of Thorlabs

University of South Carolina startup breaks ground in nano-optical manufacturing

Acquisition by Thorlabs facilitates continued university-industry partnership in Columbia, SC.