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

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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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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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Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 4/2020

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Editorial

Autonomous Driving Inspires Photonics to Thrive: The technology is now at the tipping point

• Eric Yang

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Contents: PhotonicsViews 4/2020

• Pages: 2-3
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News: PhotonicsViews 4/2020

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Products: PhotonicsViews 4/2020

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Communications: PhotonicsViews 4/2020

• Pages: 13-15
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Organizations & Initiatives: PhotonicsViews 4/2020

• Pages: 16-17
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Portrait

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“Every Change We Made on the Chip Was an Adventure”: A portrait of Pim Kat, founder and former CEO of Technobis Group

• Jose Pozo

• Pages: 18-20
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Optical Measurement Technology

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Laser Forensics: The Invisible – Revealed and Measured: IR laser technology from Scanovis revolutionizes forensics; Ophir measurement technology simplifies adjustment of the optics

• Sven Kern

• Pages: 21-23
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Confocal Laser Vibrometry: Visualizing vibrations inside microelectromechanical systems

• Semjon Köhnke
• Malte Ennen
• Iwan Schaap

• Pages: 24-27
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Advance Online Publication

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New Microstructured Optical Fibers for Innovative Lasers and Beam Transportation

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

• Pages: 27
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Biophotonics

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THz‐Raman – A New Analytical Tool: Extending Raman spectroscopy to other spectral regions – modality for microscopes, vials and well plates

• James Carriere
• Matthias Schulze

• Pages: 28-31
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Communications

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Communications: PhotonicsViews 4/2020

• Pages: 32-34
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Market Report

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ADAS Sensors and Computing: A 22 Billion Dollar Market in 2025: Radar and camera are expected to lead the market, but more computing power and a new E/E architecture will be required

• Pierrick Boulay
• Cédric Malaquin

• Pages: 35-37
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Trends in Manufacturing

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More Flexibility and Sharp Edges: Laser technologies extend the freedom of day‐night design and can also be applied to chrome (III)

• Marco Läufle

• Pages: 38-40
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Laser Materials Processing

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Blue Lasers Move Deeper Into Applications: Higher power and brightness enable new capabilities

• Jean‐Michel Pelaprat
• Matthew Finuf
• Richard Gleeson
• Mark Zediker

• Pages: 41-45
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Laser Cladding

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Less CO₂ and Fine Dust Emissions in Automotive: High‐power laser cladding as a cost‐effective rotor coating solution

• Maria Barbosa
• René Bischoff
• Wilfried Strauß
• Holger Hillig
• Steffen Nowotny
• Christoph Leyens

• Pages: 46-49
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Machine Vision

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Measuring Wheel Movements at Speeds up to 155 MPH: Aicon automobile performance testing system equipped with high‐speed cameras from Mikrotron

• Pages: 50-51
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See, Recognize, Grasp: Industrial cameras optimize gripping processes of assembly robots

• Stefan Waizmann

• Pages: 52-54
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Laser Cutting

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In Colladon's Footsteps: Water jet laser evolution MMXX – applying modern IR fiber lasers to cut challenging applications

• Jens Gaebelein
• Jeroen Hribar

• Pages: 55-57
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Calendar

• Pages: 58
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Meetings: PhotonicsViews 4/2020

• Pages: 59-60
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Buyers' Guide

• Pages: 61-63
• First Published: 03 August 2020

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Index & Masthead

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Company Index

• Pages: 65
• First Published: 03 August 2020

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