Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

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Editorial

The Laser Boosts Digital Manufacturing: 60 years and going stronger than ever …

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Graf

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Contents: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

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News: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

• Pages: 4-8
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Products: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

• Pages: 9-12
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Communications: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

• Pages: 13-17
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Organizations & Initiatives

EPIC Again Innovative in Creating Business Opportunities: Hosting more than 30 online events from April to June

• Pages: 18-19
• First Published: 28 May 2020

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Technology Report

The Future of Micro‐Optics in Europe: Addressing the importance of micro‐optics manufacturing in the photonics industry and its remarkable economic growth

• Sana Amairi‐Pyka

• Pages: 20-22
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Laser Cutting

Cutting Glass, Sapphire, Ceramics and Other Brittle Materials: USP lasers enable a non‐contact, high‐yield process that is compatible with green sustainable manufacturing

• Hatim Haloui
• Tony Lee
• Ludger Müllers

• Pages: 23-25
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Fast Beam Oscillations Improve Laser Cutting of Thick Materials: State of the art and outlook

• Andreas Wetzig
• Patrick Herwig
• Madlen Borkmann
• Cindy Goppold
• Achim Mahrle
• Christoph Leyens

• Pages: 26-31
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Preview

New Microstructured Optical Fibers for Innovative Lasers and Beam Transportation

• L. Bigot
• P. Roy
• T. Taunay
• F. Benabid
• E. Mottay

• Pages: 31
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Fibers and Fiber Optics

Fiber Coupling to Polarization‐Maintaining Fibers and Collimation: How measured fiber parameters help to choose the best coupling and collimation optics

• Anja Knigge
• Mats Rahmel
• Christian Knothe

• Pages: 32-36
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Radiation Safety

X‐Ray Protection in an Industrial Production Environment: Industrial implementation of the requirements of the German Radiation Protection Act

• Christian Freitag
• Roswitha Giedl‐Wagner

• Pages: 37-41
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Laser Micromachining

Smooth Surfaces by Pulsed Laser Processing with Bursts: Making use of the effects of successive pulses

• Andreas Michalowski
• Fabian Nyenhuis
• Gerhard Kunz

• Pages: 42-45
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Micro‐Drilling with a 5‐Axis Precession Bore System: Practical experience using green and infrared lasers at Posalux

• Udo Heinzel
• Holger Schlüter

• Pages: 46-49
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Optical Components and Systems

Resonant Waveguide Gratings – Versatile Devices for Laser Engineering: Accurate tailoring of the spectral, temporal and spatial parameters of your laser systems

• Martin Rumpel
• Tom Dietrich
• Frieder Beirow
• Thomas Graf
• Marwan Abdou Ahmed

• Pages: 50-55
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Process Monitoring

Machine Learning for Process Monitoring Systems: Examples from laser materials processing to additive manufacturing

• Thomas Grünberger

• Pages: 56-59
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Advanced Process Monitoring in Additive Manufacturing: In‐process temperature field measurement for laser metal deposition and laser powder bed fusion processes

• Dieter Tyralla
• Thomas Seefeld

• Pages: 60-63
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Process Monitoring in E‐Mobility Applications: Examples of hairpin welding, ablation and cell‐to‐cell welding with WeldWatcher 6

• Christoph Franz
• Oliver Bruchwald

• Pages: 64-68
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Laser Sources

A Green Wave for Electric Cars: Powerful green laser light meets all the requirements of the industry

• Stefanie Bisch
• Sebastian Zaske

• Pages: 70-73
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Company Profiles

• Pages: 74-79
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Calendar

• Pages: 81
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Meetings: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

• Pages: 82-84
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Buyers' Guide

• Pages: 85-87
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