Individualization, shorter product cycles and prototyping are leading to increased use of additive manufacturing in industry. A reliable and versatile process like laser plastic welding is needed to join parts with other additively manufactured or injection molded parts.
New research published today shows the photonics industries in Europe, the US, and Asia outpaced global GDP from 2019 to the post-pandemic period of 2022, growing at a CAGR of 6.8 %.
Quantum technologies: Bosch aims to use sensors to take a leading position, describes areas of application from medicine to mobility in a new PhotonicsViews article.
Nanoscale semiconductor particles are making waves in the sectors including autonomous vehicles, food inspection, medical devices, artificial intelligence, and more, as industry players increasingly seek to expand their access to infrared data.
KDPOF and Trumpf describe the implementation of optical data communication standards and solutions for the automotive industry in a new technical article.
With its immense computing power, quantum communication is set to become the backbone of the next-generation internet.
During a two-day meeting hosted by the University of Stuttgart at the cutting-edge research campus ARENA2036, a panel of experts discussed the latest developments, new applications, and market trends.
In recent years, kilowatt lasers have become standard products in the industrial laser market. The popularity of kilowatt lasers has greatly improved the efficiency and capabilities of industrial processing. Despite the performance improvements, the large size of these lasers has posed significant challenges in transportation and assembly. As a result, laser manufacturers have contemplated ways to reduce the overall size of these laser systems.
How do you measure the temperature of individual atoms at an altitude of ninety kilometers?
Laser companies present solutions to counteract the health hazards posed by particulate matter as required by the new EU vehicle emission standard, Euro 7.
National Science Foundation awards 90.8 million dollars to Arizona State University to advance x-ray science.
New project to advance perovskite-based optoelectronics, such as solar cells, photodetectors, and LEDs.
Project LAMpAS presents the first laser system that can achieve controlled topographic characteristics.
Laser Components has further optimized its processes for manufacturing and inspecting graded reflectivity mirrors (GRMs) – so-called Gaussian mirrors.
The new product line expands Coherent’s existing DOE technology consisting of industry leading volume and surface Bragg gratings with applications in communications and medicine.
A consortium led by the University of Amsterdam received a €7.5M Horizon grant to make quantum clocks more robust and compact.
The ATSM project developed an optics module and control software for laser-based production of tribological multilayer systems. PhotonicsViews has the interview with project manager David Pallasch.
Nanoscribe’s 3D microfabrication range expands to the macroscale while maintaining particularly complex structures and filigree details
Corning improves capabilities for augmented reality waveguide eyepiece laser singulation, enhancing edge strength by over 50 %.
BR Technologies is enabling a transformer manufacturer to cut its insulation paper in a unique way by using lasers integrated in its machines. The SR 15i CO2 laser sources from Luxinar are cutting crepe paper which is used as an insulation layer inside the electrical transformers that are sold to power grid suppliers.
Instrument Systems’ Drs Frank Münchow and Karthik Iyer explain in an upcoming PhotonicsViews article how to minimize the error budget of a VCSEL test system and provide highly accurate measured values for the eye safety of the laser source.
In a two-part tutorial in PhotonicsViews 1 and 2/2022, Joya Team share their experience of more than two decades with the professional community.
Based on a novel measurement algorithm and the Mikrotron EoSens 12CXP+ area scan camera, scientists in Taiwan developed a system to reconstruct a 3D model in a continuous scan mode instead of the conventional approach of taking three full-field fringe images sequentially in pause mode.
Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a fast imaging system to analyze the inner structure of 3D-printed metal parts.
Zygo is constantly researching and refining interferometry-driven optical metrology tools and recognizes that digital holography is gaining significant momentum in the measurement of surface topography due to increases in the speed and data capacity of today’s computers.
Corning has launched a dicing technology that will allow the company’s laser technologies business to enter the semiconductor application space to further focus on microfabrication processes.
As a leading component manufacturer, Hamamatsu is well aware of the advantages and disadvantages offered by various systems, and the main differences will be explained in the new issue of PhotonicsViews, 1/2022.
In order to give developers of microlens arrays (MLAs) the opportunity to sound-out the potential of this technology, Ingeneric presents an MLA demonstrator in a new technical article in PhotonicsViews issue 1/2022.
Issue 1/2022 – February / March – is online and has been mailed. It includes feature articles from Cailabs, Coherent, Hamamatsu Photonics, Ingeneric, iPronics, Joya Team, Solmates, and more companies and institutions. On the cover: Shenzhen JPT Opto-Electronics.
Highly precise 3D structures in black can now be printed using a 2-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printing process. This seemed for a long time impossible as non-transmissive (black) materials greatly reduce the polymerization efficiency of the printing process.
Technical article by Lea Sauerwein, Christian Ebenhöh, and René Geiger in the current issue 5/2021 of PhotonicsViews: a new approach to the joining of polymers combines two different processing wavelengths with the method of quasi-simultaneous welding in order to achieve a significant reduction of welding time and enhanced weld seam quality.
Technical article by Patrick Kim in the new issue 5/2021 of PhotonicsViews: new laser system component minimizes unwanted heat accumulation in the material being processed compared with traditional CO2 laser sources, which typically produce longer pulse rise/fall times of approximately 60 μs.
The safety of people interacting with robots has top priority, especially when humans and robots are working side by side instead of being separated from each other by safety fencing. The Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF’s web-based design tool helps companies design their cobots. The Cobot Designer helps minimize the risk of accidents and increases employee safety. The tool is available as a free web application.
Peter J. de Groot and Michael Schmidt have provided a pivotal article, looking at the extremely important subject of the role of metrology in Industry 4.0.
By analyzing lens data during optics design, the optimal optical fabrication chain can be determined.
