| | | | | | | | Long upper-state lifetimes of thulium-hosted crystals offer bypass of prohibitive diode infrastructure costs that bottleneck low-repetition-rate, multi-joule laser architectures. |
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| | Sponsored | | How do you evaluate image quality, sensor performance, lighting effectiveness, and driver visibility before hardware exists? Join this webinar to see how optical simulation helps engineering teams design, optimize, and validate headlamps, HUDs, cameras, and LiDAR systems earlier in development, reducing prototype iterations and accelerating decision-making. |
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| | | | | | In this episode: A color-changing material thwarts anticounterfeiting, several optics and photonics companies make leadership changes, and a diamond quantum emitter decoupled from vibrations may be a gamechanger. |
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| | | | | | Astronomers discover an extremely bright ‘Little Red Dot’ within the earliest galaxies of the Universe—dating back a few hundred million years after the Big Bang—and it appears to be a new type of astrophysical object. |
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| | Sponsored | | Made in the USA, the V-783 open-aperture XY stage combines long travel, direct-drive linear motors, and 1 nm encoder resolution in a compact monolithic design. With speeds to 1 m/s, acceleration to 10 m/s², and ±0.07 µm repeatability, it delivers precise, stable motion for semiconductor, photonics, metrology, microscopy, and automation applications. |
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| | | | | | Celebrate innovation in optics, photonics, and quantum by entering the Laser Focus World Innovators Awards—the final submission deadline is September 29th. |
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| | | | | | What will it take to make optical interconnects practical at massive scale? In this episode, we explore how precision motion, intelligent alignment, and automation are transforming photonics manufacturing into a high-throughput production environment. |
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