The Daily Beam - Feb 16th, 2024
 
 
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February 16, 2024
In this episode, we cover a spiral-shaped lens that could transform ophthalmology, meta-optics set to advance thermal imaging, and a breathing soliton laser that prompts nonlinear discoveries.
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HÜBNER Photonics manufactures high performance lasers for advanced imaging, detection, and analysis. The division offers one of the industry’s broadest ranges of single-frequency CW lasers, diode lasers, nanosecond and femtosecond lasers as well as tunable lasers across the full UV-Visible-NIR spectrum addressing applications from microscopy to quantum.

On February 20th, we will launch Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast, bringing you another way to get insights and views on the latest in the optics and photonics industry.
Photon-cascade correlation spectroscopy enables peering into the quantum realm: Creating an image-in-time of photons reveals whether they tend to travel together or not, which allows researchers to extract information about their interactions.
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QCL operation is highly dependent on the injection current. Wavelength Electronics’ QCL2000 LAB touchscreen instrument delivers 2A to the QCL with noise of 1.3 μA up to 100kHz and average current noise density of 4 nA / √Hz, as well as analog modulation of 2-3MHz for laser tuning. This provides the stability and accuracy required for harmonic comb generation.

Join us on March 5th at 2 pm ET for a look at photonic topological interfaces (waveguides) researchers designed to guide light through a chip to reduce this loss of photons/backscattering.
Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) have a unique surface signature that determines how they reflect light—and it can be used to experimentally confirm the existence of topological states within real materials.
Multisequential, object-based architecture for modeling optical systems improves sequential optical design, analysis, optimization, and tolerancing capabilities with one program.