One week after Super Bowl XLIX, SPIE Photonics West—North America's major optics and photonics conference and exhibition—will kick off (pun intended, of course), and it is expected to draw at least 20,000 attendees this year. As always, attendees, exhibitors, and presenters will converge upon the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA, from February 7-12, where they will discuss and learn about the latest products—as well as get market insights, attend technical presentations and make new contacts.
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SPIE Photonics West includes two exhibitions: Photonics West itself, as well as the Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS) Expo. The BiOS Expo, which will feature 230 companies, will run February 7-8, and the Photonics West Exhibition will run February 10-12 and have 1250 exhibitors. Attendees walking the exhibit 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 selective-plane illumination microscopy system
- Olympus IMS to display laser confocal microscope system
- Opto Diode to introduce IR detectors
- Photometrics to demonstrate high-speed mode for EMCCD camera
- Photron to show high-speed camera
- Sierra-Olympic to showcase LWIR chassis cameras
- Sydor Instruments to introduce streak camera
- Xenics to show SWIR camera
FIBER-OPTIC COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS
- AFL to showcase large-diameter fiber cleavers
- Fibercore to introduce graded-index, pure-silica-core multimode fiber
- Lincoln Laser to demonstrate polygon laser scanning head
- OFS to show fiber laser cavities
- VI Systems to showcase 850 nm VCSEL module for 50 Gbit/s transmission
LASERS & SOURCES
- Calmar Laser to showcase femtosecond fiber laser
- Cobolt to show continuous-wave DPSS lasers
- DILAS to display 1.2 kW diode laser system
- Elforlight to debut visible OPO
- Jenoptik to show high-power 760 nm semiconductor laser
- Kimmon Koha to showcase 20 W fiber laser
- Laser-export to display Q-switched DPSS lasers
- Menlo Systems to display microjoule femtosecond laser
- Nanoscribe to display 3D laser lithography system
- Necsel to showcase custom laser module
- Onefive to showcase high-energy femtosecond laser
- PD-LD to display single longitudinal laser diode module
- PicoQuant to debut picosecond laser
- ProPhotonix to showcase OEM LED solutions
- Quantum Composers to showcase DPSS lasers
- Spectra-Physics to display Q-switched DPSS lasers
- Toptica Photonics to demo frequency-converted diode lasers
- Wavelength Electronics to showcase benchtop quantum cascade laser driver
OPTICAL COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS
- Alluxa to display ultra-narrow filters
- Deposition Sciences to introduce LDT optical coatings
- Edmund Optics to showcase λ/20 PCX lenses
- Fisba Optik to debut precision-molded IR lenses
- Holo/Or to showcase diffractive optical elements
- LightPath Technologies to display advanced molding capabilities
- Nanophase to highlight optical polishing slurries
- PG&O to exhibit optical thin-film coatings line
- Rainbow Research Optics to show diamond-turned IR aspheres
- Sill Optics to showcase focusing lenses for manual laser welding systems
SOFTWARE & ACCESSORIES
- Aerotech to showcase XY piezo nanopositioning stages
- Lambda Research Corp. to showcase new version of its optical design software
- Laservision USA to display laser safety filters for UV and IR lasers
- TMC Ametek to show vibration cancellation system for optical tables
SPECTROSCOPY
- BaySpec to showcase Raman spectrometer
- Ocean Optics to showcase microspectrometer
- Ondax to showcase terahertz Raman spectroscopy system
- Spectrum Scientific to introduce UV spectrometer
TEST & MEASUREMENT
- Aurea Technology to introduce NIR single-photon counting OEM module
- Gentec-EO to introduce 4 and 12 kW water-cooled beam dumps
- Gigahertz-Optik to show spectral light and color meter
- International Light Technologies to show research radiometer
- NeTHIS to showcase optical power meter
- Ophir Photonics to display non-contact focus spot and position monitor
For much more information, including the full exhibitor lists and floor plans, please visit http://spie.org/x13196.xml for SPIE BiOS and http://spie.org/x2584.xml for SPIE Photonics West.