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    Detectors & Imaging

    Deep learning methods enable image enhancement advances

    Bhawna Goyal
    June 5, 2024
    How can algorithms improve image enhancement?
    FIGURE 1. At the end of the fiber, the output field is no longer the same as the input field. To absorb the outgoing wave, a general absorbing artificial material is used (aka a perfectly matched layer).
    Software & Accessories

    Full-wave multiphysics simulation of optical fibers

    Yosuke Mizuyama
    July 25, 2022
    Full-wave multiphysics simulations for optical fibers require sophisticated modeling and simulation techniques.
    (Image credit: Dyoptr)
    Software & Accessories

    Next-gen optical design software

    Akash Arora
    Feb. 12, 2024
    Multisequential, object-based architecture for modeling optical systems improves sequential optical design, analysis, optimization, and tolerancing capabilities with one program...
    Software & Accessories

    Control software provides exact laser control

    LFW Staff
    Feb. 6, 2024
    SCANmotionControl software calculates optimum trajectories from specified machining patterns and process parameters.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Image analysis software offers multiplex cell detection

    LFW Staff
    Feb. 1, 2024
    Aivia AI image analysis software version 13 is a complete 2-to-5D image visualization, analysis, and interpretation platform.
    Digital Metrology Solutions
    Software & Accessories

    Metrology software offers built-in crosshatch functionality

    LFW Staff
    Sept. 8, 2023
    TraceBoss+ surface roughness measurement software allows users to acquire an image of surface texture from any USB-equipped microscope.
    Blackbird Robotics
    Software & Accessories

    Software for remote laser welding available

    LFW Staff
    Aug. 3, 2023
    Used in high-throughput automated manufacturing processes such as electro-mobility, OTF (On-the-Fly) MotionSync software determines the exact position of the scanner and component...
    (Photo credit: PlanOpSim)
    Lieven Penninck, founder and CEO of PlanOpSim.
    Executive Forum

    PlanOpSim and metamaterials customization

    Jose Pozo
    July 31, 2023
    Jose Pozo, Optica’s CTO, talks to Lieven Penninck, founder and CEO of PlanOpSim, about his vision for metalens design and simulation.
    (Image credit: Alexey Yamilov)
    FIGURE 1. Image of an electromagnetic wave trapped inside a disordered metal.
    Optics

    Anderson localization of light does indeed exist

    Sally Cole Johnson
    July 18, 2023
    Researchers finally validate the phenomenon of Anderson localization of light—the three-dimensional trapping of electromagnetic waves—via advanced electromagnetics computations...