Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 2/2021

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Editorial

So Much Achieved – Yet So Much to Do: A wide range of products and services have received attention by the public – but we still have a long way to go

• Lutz Aschke
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Contents: PhotonicsViews 2/2021

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News: PhotonicsViews 2/2021

• Pages: 4-9
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Products: PhotonicsViews 2/2021

• Pages: 10-11
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Communications: PhotonicsViews 2/2021

• Pages: 12-15
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Organizations & Initiatives: PhotonicsViews 2/2021

• Pages: 16-19
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Interview

“Becoming Number 1”: Oliver Dreissigacker of PhotonicsViews spoke with Carlos Lee, the head of EPIC, about how the association is progressing

• Pages: 20-23
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Portrait

“Try to Enjoy the Experience”: EPIC talks to Javier Marti of DAS Photonics, a leader in photonics communication systems for the defense, avionics and space markets

• Jose Pozo

• Pages: 24-26
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Technology Report

Hard Light for Material Inspection, Crystallography, and Much More: Applications that utilize both UV and soft x‐ray

• Emma McCarthy (Teledyne - Princeton Instruments)

• Pages: 27-31
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Laser Micromachining

Cost‐Effective Production of Integrated Monolithic Sensor Packages: Selective laser annealing enables the setting of different reference magnetization directions on sensors

• Hans‐Ulrich Zuehlke
• Mandy Gebhardt (both: 3D Micromac)

• Pages: 32-35
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Laser Materials Processing

Increasing Throughput in Many Applications: Combining advanced motion controllers and highly accurate and dynamic positioning stages gives an edge to systems integrators and equipment manufacturers

• Markus Simon
• Stefan Vorndran (both: Physik Instrumente (PI) USA

• Pages: 36-39
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Optical Components and Systems

Improving Iris Recognition with Liquid Lens Technology: The fast autofocus and inherent optical qualities of liquid lenses are enabling biometric identification

• Xavier Berthelon (Corning)

• Pages: 40-44
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Machine Vision

The Role of Adaptive Vision AI in Autonomous Machine Vision: Leveraging sophisticated AI to create the ultimate user‐friendly technology

• Yonatan Hyatt (Inspekto)

• Pages: 45-47
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Tutorial

Principles of Laser Scanning Microscopes: Part I: Confocal optical systems, 2D and 3D scanning, confocal effect and extended focus image, and scanning mechanisms

• Megan Farell (Olympus IMS)

• Pages: 48-51
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Optical Measurement Technology

Color and Coatings: Color‐supported thickness determination of thin transparent layers

• Faiza Houta
• Michael Quinten (both: FRT, a Formfactor company)

• Pages: 52-54
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The Critical Role of Validation in Micromolding: Why metrology and validation are important in a micromolding‐based product development program

• David O'Leary (Accumold)

• Pages: 55-57
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Surface Topography Measurement: High lateral resolution and wide measurement range for structures with nanometer dimensions in industry, research, and laboratories

• Özgür Tan (Polytec)
• Ellen‐Christine Reiff (RBS)

• Pages: 58-59
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Zero Tolerance for Errors: Test system and test concept for medical lights at Dräger

• Jürgen P. Weißhaar (Opsira)
• Matthias Brauer (Dräger)

• Pages: 60-61
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Quantum Technologies

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

• Stephan Ritter

• Pages: 62-66
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The Quantum Technology Puzzle Game: How optical frequency combs and ultrastable lasers enable the second quantum revolution

• Benjamin Sprenger
• Patrizia Krok

• Pages: 67-71
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Preview

Unifying Ultrafast Laser Imaging and Spectroscopy

• Christopher G. Leburn (Chromacity)
• Pages: 71
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Calendar

• Pages: 73
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Meetings: PhotonicsViews 2/2021

• Pages: 74-76
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Buyers' Guide

• Pages: 77-79
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Index & Masthead

Company Index

• Pages: 81
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