Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 5/2021

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Editorial

Improve our visibiliy: PhotonicSweden increases the awareness of the values created by photonics, and the importance of investing in the industry

Åsa Claesson (PhotonicSweden)

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Contents: PhotonicsViews 5/2021

• Pages: 2-3
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News: PhotonicsViews 5/2021

• Pages: 4-9
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Products: PhotonicsViews 5/2021

• Pages: 10-12
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Communications

Communications: PhotonicsViews 5/2021

• Pages: 13
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LIPSS for metal forming tools: A laser process chain to produce functionalized tool surfaces

Lewin Rathmann, Tim Radel (both: BIAS)

• Pages: 14-15
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Communications: PhotonicsViews 5/2021

• Pages: 16-19
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Organizations & Initiatives: PhotonicsViews 5/2021

• Pages: 20-22
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Portrait

“Find good managers”
EPIC interview: Jimena García-Romeu, CEO of Alcyon Photonics

Jose Pozo (EPIC)

• Pages: 23-25
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Technology Report

European manufacturing capabilities for photonics: How pilot lines enhance the continent's competitiveness

Ana González, Antonio Raspa (EPIC)

• Pages: 26-29
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Laser Micromachining

Heat accumulation in metals under femtosecond irradiation: simulation and experimentation: Research on predicting the quality of laser processing of metals using femtosecond lasers for industrial purposes

Liliana Cangueiro, David Bruneel (both: Lasea), Thomas Kiedrowski (Bosch), Nikolai Schroeder, Andrés Fabián Lasagni (both: Technical University of Dresden), J. A. Ramos-de-Campos (Lasea)

• Pages: 30-33
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Laser Welding

Evosys' advanced quasi-simultaneous welding: A new approach to the joining of polymers

Lea Sauerwein, Christian Ebenhöh, René Geiger (all: Evosys)

• Pages: 34-37
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Beam shaping solutions for stable laser welding: Multifocal and multispot beams to bridge gaps and reduce spattering

Joerg Volpp (Luleå University of Technology), Alexander Laskin (AdlOptica)

• Pages: 38-41
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Adjustable ring shaping for laser welding applications: A diffractive method for shaping a laser into a spot surrounded by a ring, with continuously adjustable power ratio

Alexander Brodsky, Natan Kaplan (both: Holo/Or)

• Pages: 42-45
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Process Monitoring

Smart monitoring of battery welding processes: Sensor systems for laser welding applications along the battery production chain: from cell to package

Nataliya Deyneka Dupriez (Lessmüller Lasertechnik)

• Pages: 46-50
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Laser Sources

Material processing with fast rise and fall time CO₂ laser pulses: New CO₂ laser system using an integrated acousto-optic modulator

Patrick Kim (Luxinar)

• Pages: 51-53
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Machine Vision

A new dimension for machine vision: Light field technology for lean automation processes

Christoph Garbe, Mareike Schindler-Kotscha (both: HD Vision Systems)

• Pages: 54-56
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Calendar

• Pages: 57
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Meetings: PhotonicsViews 5/2021

• Pages: 58-60
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Buyers' Guide

• Pages: 61-63
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