PhotonicsViews 2/2022
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Editorial
Are you looking for the next useful mission?
Improving sustainability thanks to Digital Photonic Production
Prof. Constantin Häfner (Fraunhofer ILT)
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Contents: PhotonicsViews 2/2022
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News: PhotonicsViews 2/2022
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Products: PhotonicsViews 2/2022
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Communications: PhotonicsViews 2/2022
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Organizations & Initiatives: PhotonicsViews 2/2022
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Portrait
Not going dotty: EPIC CEO interview of Igor Nakonechnyi, founder, director and CPO of QustomDot
Measurement Technology
Polarization-controlled VCSEL characterization: Novel one-shot method enables the full performance efficiency of the VCSELs to be exploited while assuring safe operation
Frank Münchow, Karthik Iyer (both: Instrument Systems)
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Laser Materials Processing
Gentle to the material, precise, and fast: Precision processing of high-tech materials using a water laser
Driving the manufacturing and improvement of batteries: JPT's advanced laser technology promotes innovation and advances electrode slitting and laser welding
Lulu Wang, Lulu Song, Xueqing Wang (Shenzhen JPT Opto-Electronics)
Product Report
Monitoring the condition of a laser tool in production
Laser Micromachining
Sustainable and efficient micro-machining solutions: Cutting 5G flex PCB materials with a high energy, high power, nanosecond UV laser
Jim Bovatsek (MKS Spectra-Physics)
Positioning Systems
High-precision positioning technology for high-performance quantum networks: How piezo-controlled, crossed optical fiber cavities coupled to one atom are used for high-fidelity quantum nodes and qubit detectors
Kolja Kolata (for SmarAct)
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Preview
Taming an articulated laser: Beam delivery over a wide spectral range is enabled by articulated arms that deliver beams from the laser exit point to the end-point, preserving the beam quality
Oren Aharon (Duma Optronics)
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Laser Optics
New IBS coatings boost performance of petawatt laser mirrors: Transporting HAPLS, the world's highest average power PW laser of ELI Beamlines
Thomas Willemsen (Laseroptik), Uddhab Chaulagain, Stefan Borneis (both: ELI Beamlines), Wolfgang Ebert (Laseroptik)
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Focus section: AKL'22
Program of the Technological Conference AKL'22
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Market Report
Chinese laser market under the new globalization: How to navigate your business in China in these turbulent times
Bo Gu (BOS Photonics)
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An overview of global and European photonics markets and industry: Photonics contributes to make Europe's economy more competitive and is essential to global market growth
Thierry Robin, Benoît d'Humières, Jacques Cochard (all: Tematys)
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Technology Feature
Laser: a proven tool with a lot more potential: No matter whether it is for welding or for the structuring of surfaces, the laser is now an integral part of many industrial processes. And it still has a lot of potential for future applications.
Process Monitoring
Laser weld quality: it's in the process!
The inspection of laser welding processes is anything but trivial – new technologies are needed to provide high-level quality control
Charlotte Helzle (hema electronic)
Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers
Ultrafast lasers today: The continuous increase in average laser power opens new horizons for femtosecond laser processing
Eric Mottay (Amplitude Systèmes)
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Laser Cutting
Enhancing cutting performance with an oscillating laser beam: A newly developed high-brightness 4 kW oscillator in combination with LBC technology, which is a dynamic beam shape control, leads to significant improvements
Takaaki Yamanashi (Amada)
Laser Welding
Extending the degrees of freedom in laser beam microwelding: How can seam geometry and process quality be controlled by applying temporal and spatial power modulation?
André Häusler (Fraunhofer ILT), Marc Hummel (RWTH)
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Tutorial
Augmented / virtual / mixed reality systems optical terminology: Definitions, explanation, considerations for requirements formation – part II: spectrum and polarization, ghost and stray light, uniformity, and conclusion
Olga Resnik, Yosi Arazi, Yoni Kaganovitz, Assaf Levy-Beeri (all: Joya Team)
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Technology Report
Photonics: a pillar for extended reality technologies: An overview of how photonics will be highly invested in the future of XR and the market applications landscape
Jérémy Picot-Clémente (EPIC)
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Calendar
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Meetings: PhotonicsViews 2/2022
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Company Profiles: PhotonicsViews 2/2022
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Buyers' Guide
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Index & Masthead
Company Index
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