This is the third in a series of interviews with leaders of our professional societies to give us a better understanding of the ecosystem of our industry.
If the holes in microstructured fibers are filled with extremely bright rare-earth-doped nanocrystals (Superdots), the tailored-fiber geometry and bright particles significantly...
The beam focus of high-power fiber lasers can be characterized via imaging of Rayleigh scattering in air-an indirect detection method that avoids damage to detectors due to ultrahigh...
Laser scanning confocal microscopy can be used to precisely measure the topographies of stainless-steel surfaces machined by micro-electric discharge machining to scales of 200...
Ultraviolet lithography lasers with injection-lock technology use 50% less electricity and gas, enabling technically and ecologically viable 450 mm semiconductor wafer manufacturing...
Optical-design programs encompass lens and illuminator design, analysis, and tolerancing, as well as photometrically tailored design and the interface with external computer-aided...
Solid-state lasers have reached the 100 kW class, and demonstrated that they can shoot down militarily important targets. The next challenge is to harden laser systems enough ...
Integrated photonics can be written in glass via nonlinear absorption by focusing a short-pulse-duration laser into the glass; quantum-integrated-photonics (QIP) devices are being...
In a recent blog posted on www.laserfocusworld.com, Strategies Unlimited analyst Allen Nogee noted that 2014 total laser sales are looking up, and some of the laggard areas are...
Recognizing the opportunity for significant improvements in OLED output, Pixelligent has developed PixClear, a nanocrystalline synthesis and surface-modification technology that...
A group of French researchers has designed and fabricated a type of small, thin silicon (Si) Fresnel lens that can simplify compact thermal infrared (IR) cameras and make them...
The primary technical goal of Sigma’s recently introduced, self-funded, moderate-altitude high-resolution quantum lidar system (HRQLS; pronounced Hercules) is to allow large areas...
Physicists from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany have fabricated subwavelength gold nanocones that serve as nonlinear optical devices.
Researchers at the Beijing University of Technology are optimizing three-layer broadband optical antireflection (AR) coatings for silicon using what is called an ant colony algorithm...
In the interests of boosting the power of blue-emitting laser sources for projection while at the same time reducing their complexity, Osram Opto Semiconductors has unveiled a...
Rather than trying to create a grating coupler based on a certain principle, researchers at Technische Universität Berlin and IHP GmbH are using two “metaheuristic” search methods...
A new tunable design from the Wireless Optoelectronic Research & Innovation Centre (WORIC) at the University of South Wales uses an etalon-based design that enables the tuning...
Fibrance is the term coined by Corning Incorporated for its new optical fibers that distribute a variety of wavelengths of light evenly along their length, much like very tiny...
