Special Section: XIV Jena Laser Conference.
Cover Story: Glass machining technology with a ns-pulsed infrared fiber laser.
Also on the cover:
Technology Report – Raman spectroscopy and imaging in bio and life sciences | Process Control – Optimized powder bed laser melting processes | Machine Vision – 3D vision helps to precisely palletize parts

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Highlight stories: Laser Plastic Welding Flexible laser welding as an addition to additive manufacturing, Optics Design Creating advanced photonics AI assistants, Machine Vision The importance of image quality in AI visual inspection systems.

Cover story: AdheScan – adhesive failure surface inspection system by Schäfter + Kirchhoff

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PhotonicsViews June / July / August ’24 – special section: Stuttgart Laser Technology Forum (SLT)

Highlight stories: Beam Analysis Fact-checking five common misunderstandings, Ultrashort-pulse Lasers How to multiply beam paths to create compact laser amplifiers, Beam Shaping Unlocking opportunities for the EV industry.

Cover: Hübner Photonics is in the art of making high performance lasers, from cw single frequency lasers by Cobolt to femtosecond lasers by Valo – always concretely speaking!

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PhotonicsViews April / May ’24 – special section: AKL’24 International Laser Technology Congress.

Highlight stories: Market Report – Laser sources: global market and trends, Laser Welding – High precision laser welding for the electric vehicles of tomorrow, Additive Manufacturing – Innovative measurement tool optimizes development.

Cover: Marking brass with a pulsed fiber laser by Shenzhen JPT Optoelectronics

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The JPT adjustable output beam (AOB) fiber laser has two coaxial beams, which can be controlled independently to optimize welding results, e.g., in battery manufacturing. (Source: Shenzhen JPT Opto-Electronics)

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Laser rack systems for quantum technology research at the University of Saarland: six laser rack systems, two DFCs, and many Toptica lasers for atom-atom entanglement over 20 km of fiber.
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The new CW 3000W by Shenzhen JPT Opto-electronics is to drive performance upgrades for laser welding and cutting, combined with reductions in size and weight compared to the previous single-module laser design.      p. 40

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The TECHSPEC 120i Plan APO Infinity Corrected Objectives are specifically designed to reduce overall system size and weight while maintaining optical performance.

These objectives offer easy system integration with C-mount threading making them ideal for a wide range of machine vision applications. (Source: Edmund)

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Fiber optics has been proven to be a powerful tool for quantum optics experiments for decades. These profit from the  increased stability and convenience, as will future quantum computers. The specific needs regarding precision, stability and ruggedness call for high quality components and tailored fiber optic solution. (Source: stock.adobe.com / Schäfter+Kirchhoff)

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Tunable single-frequency cw lasers from HÜBNER Photonics are helping simplify production of holographic optical elements (HOEs) that will be used in future VR/AR/MR applications.  p. 52

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Glass processing with a nano-second fiber lasers with 12 ns pulse width and 40 kW peak power from Shenzhen JPT Opto-electronics

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Focus section: ‘photonics for quantum technology’, cover story: “Laser technology for precise material machining applications: ‘a trenchant edge’ for processing of brittle and hard materials – solid-state picosecond laser technology”.

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Resilient laser cladding with a high-power laser, wire and powder creates efficient, fast, and sustainable coatings for industrial components, developed within project HICLAD. (Source: Fh. IWS / ronaldbonss.com)
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In optical metrology applications, telecentric lenses – in contrast to fixed focal length lenses – have the advantage that they provide accurate measurement results that are independent of the distance to the object being measured.
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The Valo series by Hübner Photonics provides a “market-unique short-pulse performance”, p. 26

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JPT’s advanced laser technology drives manufacturing improvements within the battery industry
see pages 40, 113

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JPT offers laser sources for a wide range of laser material processing like cutting, welding, marking and drilling.
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The new Continuously Tunable Laser CTL 900 from Toptica Photonics is tunable between 880 nm and 950 nm. The long-awaited wavelength range is especially useful for resonantly exciting quantum dots, for spectroscopy or addressing, e.g., rare earth ions or the caesium D1 line.

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“The Future Depends on Optics”: With a broad range of optical components and imaging products, Edmund Optics enables solutions addressing the challenges of our future and adopts its portfolio always reflecting customer and market needs.
(Source: Edmund Optics)

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Smart factories and optimized design and production environments rely on digital tools and cloud-based services
Source: Shutterstock / Gorodenkoff

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The Polarization Analyzer for state of polarization measurement, precise alignment of polarization-maintaining fibers and accurate adjustment of arbitrary states of polarization
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Toptica’s highly modular 19” laser rack systems integrate high-end laser system solutions into an industrial form factor.
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Hübner Photonics is one of the leading manufacturers of high performance lasers for research and analytical instrumentation
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The use of a smart line scan camera system should especially be considered when machine vision has to be integrated in an existing application. A modular system has advantages regarding space requirements and offers greater flexibility compared to an all-in-one solution, p. 50

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Coherence Matters! Making light work in superresolution microscopy with the new Hübner Photonics Cobolt Rogue 640 nm laser, p. 22

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The assembly of complex optical systems requires highest accuracy. Active Alignment helps to reduce cycle times by two orders of magnitude. Learn more on: www.pi.ws/active-alignment

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Fiber coupling to polarization-maintaining fibers and collimation – measured fiber parameters help to chose the best coupling and collimation optics, p. 32
(Source: Schäfter+Kirchhoff)

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One of the two dominating options of pre-assembled Fast Axis Collimators (FACs) is FACs on bottom tabs. Bottom tabs provide advantages such as better ther-mal conductivity between the FAC and the mechanical holder as well as a more mechanically robust design. (Source: Fisba)

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Fisba READYBeam – a simple, ultra-compact and powerful laser source. It dramatically reduces the footprint, development time and integration risk of multiple wavelength sources for Industrial and Diagnostic applications.
(Source: Fisba)

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