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Building thin optical fibers in a simple way

22.01.2021 -

The prototypes are not only extremely compact and stable, but also color-tunable.
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Fibers for laser applications, spectroscopy and sensors

20.01.2021 -

Sachsenkabel expands portfolio with specialty fiber optics solutions for industry and natural sciences
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Blue-light stride in perovskite-based LEDs

20.01.2021 -

High energy efficiency of up to 11 % for the blue perovskite-based LEDs achieved.
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Lumentum to acquire Coherent

19.01.2021 -

Bringing together highly complementary portfolios in a $5.7B cash and stock transaction

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Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 6/2020

Editorial

Laying the Foundation for Economic Recovery: Photonics and vision technologies critical in fighting the pandemic

Contents: PhotonicsViews 6/2020

  • Pages: 2-3
  • First Published: 06 November 2020

News: PhotonicsViews 6/2020

  • Pages: 4-9
  • First Published: 06 November 2020

Products: PhotonicsViews 6/2020

  • Pages: 10-11
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Communications: PhotonicsViews 6/2020

Organizations & Initiatives: PhotonicsViews 6/2020

  • Pages: 16-18
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Portrait

“Make Sure Your Idea Is Scalable”: A portrait of Ronny Timmreck, CEO of Senorics, provider of spectroscopic sensor solutions based on organic semiconductors

  • Pages: 20-22
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Technology Report

Quantum Photonics Industry: Ground‐breaking technologies in the fields of atomic clocks and quantum sensors for new ground and space applications

Market Report

Quantum Technologies Are Speeding to Commercialization: Is the cat dead or alive or both? What is quantum?

Communications: PhotonicsViews 6/2020

Industry Report

The Quantum Ecosystem and Its Future Workforce: A journey through the funding, the hype, the opportunities, and the risks related to the emerging field of quantum technologies

Preview

From Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Technologies: How fundamental physics turned into one of the hottest technologies today

  • Pages: 38
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Laser Sources

The Perfect Qubit: How Tunable Light Helps in the Quantum Quest: Widely tunable continuous‐wave lasers based on OPO technology make it quicker and easier to characterize different qubit contenders

Light Sources

The Power of Light in Quantum Technology: Revolutionary quantum sensors and computers are moving closer to market thanks to low‐noise lasers and other photonic components

Optical Components and Systems

PPKTP Applications: Quantum Encryption: How can entangled photon pairs be produced for quantum experiments or even communication?

Machine Vision

Smart Line Scan Measurement Systems: All you need for image acquisition and analysis

Reliable Image Capturing for Industry and Consumers: Hexapods simulate camera movements when testing the image stabilization function

Improving Semiconductor Wafer Inspection: Using master‐slave synchronization and multichannel flash control

Trends in Manufacturing

Thin Films for the Future: Excimer lasers drive industrial‐scale PLD manufacturing of innovative thin films

Why, When and How to Apply Active Alignment: Tackling the flexibility and cost‐effectiveness challenges in today's and future micro and nano‐optics production systems

Additive Manufacturing

Additive Solution for Automotive Power Electronics: FKM manufactures series production‐ready aluminum housings for SiC inverters using metal laser sintering

Medical Applications

Machining Catheter Ablation Tips with Lasers: How one manufacturer uses ultrafast precision to bring better tip designs to market

USP Laser Applications

Wire‐to‐Wire Victory: Nitinol machining for precision applications using femtosecond lasers

Calendar

  • Pages: 73
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Meetings: PhotonicsViews 6/2020

  • Pages: 74-75
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Buyers' Guide

  • Pages: 76-78
  • First Published: 06 November 2020

Index & Masthead

Company Index

  • Pages: 81
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Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 5/2020

Editorial

Photonics: Science to Market: Pushing the frontiers in photonic physics (now often called “quantum”), SMEs translate this knowledge through innovation into products

Contents: PhotonicsViews 5/2020

  • Pages: 2-3
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News: PhotonicsViews 5/2020

Products: PhotonicsViews 5/2020

  • Pages: 10-11
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Communications

Simultaneous Control of the Degree of Overlap and Melt Pool Size for Laser Powder Cladding

  • Pages: 12
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Communications: PhotonicsViews 5/2020

Organizations & Initiatives: PhotonicsViews 5/2020

  • Pages: 20-21
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Product Report

Making Light Work in Superresolution Microscopy: Hübner Photonics proudly introduces the Cobolt Rogue 640 nm laser

  • Pages: 22
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Portrait

“We Had to Build Systems from Scratch”: A portrait of Didier Beghuin, CTO of Belgian manufacturer of proprietary and custom optical systems, Lambda‐X

  • Pages: 23-25
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Technology Report

New Trends in Laser Beam Welding: How automotive applications are driving the future of laser technologies

Laser Welding

Efficient Connective Solutions: Automation solutions for the laser welding of plastics

Laser Cutting

A Toast to Laser Glass Cutting: Ultrashort‐pulse lasers ramp up productivity for manufacturing glasses

Laser Cladding

Worn Knife Seatings in the Best of Hands: Laser cladding is the “knight in shining armor” for a sawmill

Laser Micromachining

Combining High‐Tech Glass Innovations with Advanced Laser Technologies: High‐quality glass substrates and supporting laser capabilities for semiconductor and microelectronics applications

Conceiving the ‘E1’ Laser‐Machining Center: The machine with an ultrashort‐pulse laser processes hard materials – high‐precision, low‐energy and without any thermal generation

When Things are Running Smoothly: The laser as a turning tool takes cutting technology to a new level

Efficient Fine Balancing in Two Planes with Laser Ablation: The design characteristics of new impellers require efficient balancing procedures to eliminate noise and increase lifetime

Spectroscopy

The Laboratory at Hand: Plastic Sorting Made Easy: A next‐generation mobile near‐infrared spectroscopy solution

Fibers and Fiber Optics

Advanced Fiber Technology for High‐Energy Lasers: New microstructured optical fibers manufacturing and design for laser emission and beam transportation

Portrait

Anniversary at Lasercomb: 250th CO2 Slab laser for die making

  • Pages: 64-65
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Calendar

  • Pages: 66
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Meetings: PhotonicsViews 5/2020

  • Pages: 67-68
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Buyers' Guide

  • Pages: 69-71
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Index & Masthead

Company Index

  • Pages: 73
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PhotonicsViews 5/2020

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

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Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 1/2020

Editorial

Roaring Twenties: Solutions for sustainability, climate change, mobility, health care, safety, and digital infrastructure all rely heavily on our industry

Contents: PhotonicsViews 1/2020

News: PhotonicsViews 1/2020

Products: PhotonicsViews 1/2020

Portrait

“Maturing the Technology”: EPIC talks to Christian Vestergaard Poulsen, CTO of NKT Photonics

Organizations & Initiatives: PhotonicsViews 1/2020

Communications: PhotonicsViews 1/2020

Technology Report

More Than Meets the Eye: Applications enabled by the non‐stop development of hyperspectral imaging technology

Microscopy

Localization Microscopy: High power continuous wave lasers for super‐resolution microscopy

Digital Holographic Microscopy: Requirements of lasers for a novel label‐free cytometry tool

Optics Manufacturing

Redefining Microfabrication of High‐Precision Optics: How two‐photon grayscale lithography improves quality and throughput of printing microparts

Optical Components

Biomimetic Optical Nanostructures: Broadband antireflective coatings for high‐end optical elements

Optical Development of UV Lenses: Rapid prototyping: fast proof‐of‐concept and economic production of spezialized industrial lenses in small quantities

Fibers and Fiber Optics

Fiber End‐Capping and Splicing of High‐Power Fiber Arrays: CO2 laser glass welding enables the splicing of large optics and end‐capping of fiber arrangements for high‐power applications

Advantages of Active Optical Cables for Industrial Applications: Optical cables prepare the ground for emerging industrial and medical applications

USP Laser Applications

The Antennae Challenge: USP lasers streamline micromachining of 5G phone antennae

Automatic Selection of Picosecond or Femtosecond Lasers: Intelligent laser machining: USP lasers as the key technology for small to midsize manufacturing companies

Laser Materials Processing

The Blue Light District: Blue lasers provide value throughout the manufacturing chain

Decomecc Relies on a Schuler Laser Blanking Line: Belgian family‐owned company is cutting customized blanks flexibly from aluminum coils

Machine Vision

Reading Between the Lines: How line‐scan imaging is enabling the seamless inspection of paper rolls

Calendar

Meetings: PhotonicsViews 1/2020

Buyers' Guide

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Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 2/2020

Editorial

Imagine: Digitalization in photonic production

Contents: PhotonicsViews 2/2020

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

Products: PhotonicsViews 2/2020

Communications: PhotonicsViews 2/2020

  • Pages: 12-14
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Organizations & Initiatives: PhotonicsViews 2/2020

  • Pages: 16
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Portrait

“Understanding What Customers Value”: A portrait of Mary Hibbs‐Brenner, co‐founder and CEO of Vixar

  • Pages: 17-19
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Technology Report

Lasers and Surface Functionalization: How a technology aiming at sustainability is spreading and supporting laser development in Europe

 

Hyperspectral Imaging is Conquering the Industry: Hyperspectral‐based imaging is establishing itself in ever new industrial fields of application. How does this technology work and where can it be used?

AKL'20

Program of the Technological Conference AKL'20

  • Pages: 26-27
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Technology Feature

Laser's Future Will Be Smart: 12 laser experts working in research and industry reveal their views on the future of laser technology: artificial intelligence will clearly have a significant role to play

Market Report

The Global Market for Industrial Laser Processing: Fiber laser revenues dictate total‐industry negative performance in 2019

Laser Micromachining

Digitization for Highly Accurate 3D Laser Processing of Customer‐specific Tools: Digital generation of micro tools in coatable carbide and ultra‐hard materials and aspects of autonomous production

Laser Cutting

Analyzing the Dynamics of the Laser Beam Cutting Process: An explanation of characteristic frequencies of melt film dynamics

Trends in Manufacturing

New Developments for the Repair of Structural Engine Components with Laser Material Deposition: In‐situ repair by combining LMD and endoscopic devices

Laser Sources

Efficient and High‐Brightness Broad Area Laser Diodes Designed for High‐Temperature Operation: Advantages of semiconductor laser diodes as efficient high‐power laser light sources applicable at elevated ambient temperatures

Green High‐Power Disk Lasers and Industrial Applications: Innovative beam sources for increased process efficiency during laser beam welding of copper

Blue High‐Power Laser Diodes ‐‐ Beam Sources for Novel Applications: Overview and outlook

Laser Welding

2.0 μm Laser Transmission Welding: Welding of transparent and opaque polymers with single‐mode Tm‐doped fiber lasers

Unique and Durable Eyewear Thanks to Laser Technology: Lasers from Coherent bring a unique vision to reality

  • Pages: 69-71
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Calendar

  • Pages: 72
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Meetings: PhotonicsViews 2/2020

  • Pages: 74-76
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Buyers' Guide

  • Pages: 77-79
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Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

Editorial

The Laser Boosts Digital Manufacturing: 60 years and going stronger than ever …

Contents: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

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

Products: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

Communications: PhotonicsViews 3/2020

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

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

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

Fast Beam Oscillations Improve Laser Cutting of Thick Materials: State of the art and outlook

Preview

New Microstructured Optical Fibers for Innovative Lasers and Beam Transportation

  • 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

Radiation Safety

X‐Ray Protection in an Industrial Production Environment: Industrial implementation of the requirements of the German Radiation Protection Act

Laser Micromachining

Smooth Surfaces by Pulsed Laser Processing with Bursts: Making use of the effects of successive pulses

Micro‐Drilling with a 5‐Axis Precession Bore System: Practical experience using green and infrared lasers at Posalux

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

Process Monitoring

Machine Learning for Process Monitoring Systems: Examples from laser materials processing to additive manufacturing

Advanced Process Monitoring in Additive Manufacturing: In‐process temperature field measurement for laser metal deposition and laser powder bed fusion processes

Process Monitoring in E‐Mobility Applications: Examples of hairpin welding, ablation and cell‐to‐cell welding with WeldWatcher 6

Laser Sources

A Green Wave for Electric Cars: Powerful green laser light meets all the requirements of the industry

Company Profiles

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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