This is the time of year when lasers and optics professionals gear up for SPIE Photonics West, the annual optics and photonics exhibition and conference powerhouse in San Francisco, CA. This year's event, which will begin on Saturday, January 27th and end on February 1st, will stay on trend with recent years, with more than 20,000 attendees from all over the world and over 1300 exhibitors expected.
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The Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS) exhibit (BiOS Expo) will be open January 27-28, with plenty of offerings for use in imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutics; biosensors; and other biomedical devices, components, instrumentation, and systems. The Photonics West Exhibition, to run January 30th through February 1st, will showcase plenty of laser systems, optoelectronic components, and numerous devices and technologies for photonics manufacturing and research.
Attendees walking the BiOS Expo and Photonics West Exhibition floors may not be able to see each and every technology being shown at the exhibitors' booths, but the following list—broken up by category—represents a good cross-section of the products that will be showcased.
(Exhibitor booth numbers and their contact information are included with each company and product listed below by visiting the individual links.)
Detectors & Imaging
- ASI to showcase light-sheet microscope
- Bruker to show optical microscope
- DataRay to showcase beam profiling camera
- First Sensor to display silicon photomultiplier module
- Hamamatsu to showcase multi-pixel photon counters
- Hinds Instruments to showcase imaging microscope
- Micro-Hybrid to show IR thermopile detectors
- NIT to showcase on-chip CMOS sensor
- Ocean Optics to show multispectral camera
- ON Semiconductor to display image sensor
- PCO to show back-illuminated scientific CMOS camera
- Photometrics to display scientific CMOS camera
- Princeton Infrared Technologies to showcase visible-SWIR camera
- Sierra-Olympic to showcase thermal camera
- Toshiba to showcase single-chip HD camera
- TruTag Technologies to showcase hyperspectral imaging system
Fiber Optics
Lasers & Sources
- Access Laser to showcase CO2 laser
- APE to introduce short-pulse optical parametric amplifier
- Axsun Technologies to showcase OCT laser engine
- Cobolt to showcase single-frequency lasers
- Coherent to showcase tunable ultrafast laser
- CryLaS to showcase DUV laser
- Cybel to display OEM pulsed laser
- EKSPLA to showcase femtosecond fiber laser
- Energetiq Technology to showcase laser-driven tunable light sources
- IMM Photonics to display thermally stable laser module
- KMLabs to display optical parametric amplifier
- Laser Quantum to showcase femtosecond lasers
- Lumencor to display hybrid light engines
- Nuburu to showcase 150 W blue laser
- Opto Diode to showcase IRLED illuminator
- Photonics Industries to display UV nanosecond laser
- PicoQuant to display picosecond lasers
- Precitec to showcase 3D metal printing head
- Quantel Laser to showcase nanosecond laser
- Spectra-Physics to showcase picosecond fiber laser
Optics
- Archer OpTx to introduce aspheric achromat
- DSI to show MWIR and LWIR bandpass filters
- Duma Optronics to display IR electronic autocollimator
- Edmund Optics to display laser line mirrors
- Jenoptik Optical Systems to showcase fused-silica f-theta objective lenses
- Optics Balzers to showcase linear variable filters for mini spectrometers
- Optometrics to showcase diffraction grating capabilities
- PG&O to show advanced optics and thin-film optical coatings
- Prior Scientific to show customized OEM optical systems
- Rochester Precision Optics to introduce vertical molding capabilities
- Ross Optical to showcase super-polishing capability for optics
- Sill Optics to show stainless steel beam expanders
- Spectrolight to showcase flexible wavelength selector
- Spectrum Scientific to discuss freeform optics manufacturing capabilities
- Vincent Associates to show motorized iris diaphragm
Positioning, Support, & Accessories
- Cambridge Technology to show three-axis scan heads
- EKSMA Optics to showcase pulse picking system
- EOT to showcase optical isolators
- Meadowlark Optics to display phase spatial light modulators
- Santec to show UV spatial light modulator
- Scanlab to showcase scan heads
- Thorlabs to show manual translation stages
- Wavelength Electronics to introduce laser diode driver
Test & Measurement
- Bristol Instruments to display laser wavelength meter
- GenUV to show portable UV meter
- Hindsight Imaging to display handheld spectrometers
- Ophir to display beam profiling systems
- SemeaTech to showcase high-resolution electrochemical sensors
- smartGAS to display NDIR gas sensor modules
- Trioptics to showcase centration measurement and alignment systems