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PhotonicsViews issue 4/2024 is out!

03.09.2024 -

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Cover Picture: PhotonicsViews 4/2024

  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Editorial

Pioneering the future of integrated photonics

Jorn Smeets (PhotonDelta)

  • Pages: 1
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Contents

Contents: PhotonicsViews 4/2024

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News: PhotonicsViews 4/2024

  • Pages: 4-9
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Products: PhotonicsViews 4/2024

  • Pages: 10
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Communications: PhotonicsViews 4/2024

Organizations & Initiatives: PhotonicsViews 4/2024

  • Pages: 16-18
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Interview

“Be prepared to be humbled, to listen, and learn a lot”
EPIC interview with Thorsten Mayer, CEO at Vanguard Automation

Jérémy Picot-Clémente (EPIC)

  • Pages: 19-21
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Technology Report

Innovations and challenges in modern optical design: Revolutionizing the field of optical design to enable faster and more accurate optimization of complex optical systems

Jérémy Picot-Clémente (EPIC)

  • Pages: 22-26
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Optics Design

Creating advanced photonics AI assistants: The first optical design copilot based on a novel dynamic agent approach

Erez Tepper, Haim Suchowski (both: 3DOptix)

Machine Vision

The importance of image quality in AI visual inspection systems: Why variability is the key challenge in model training

Sagi Dolberg (QualiSense)

  • Pages: 31-33
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Preview: 3D vision helps to precisely palletize parts: Reliable part recognition allows the entire workflow to be optimized and automated, which speeds up palletizing, saves costs, and relieves employees

  • Pages: 33
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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AdheScan – adhesive failure surface inspection system: Adhesive failure surface evaluation based on machine learning of high-resolution stereo images

Luca Kuhlmann, André Lamott, Armin Thomsen, Heiko Mühlenfeld-Keßler, and Anja Knigge (all: Schäfter + Kirchhoff)

  • Pages: 34-37
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Laser Cleaning

Preview: Laser cleaning of insect residue without surface alteration: A pulsed CO2 laser provides an effective shockwave-based cleaning process

  • Pages: 38
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Process Control

Preview: Optimized powder bed laser melting processes: Stable processes are a challenge – machine vision provides insights and enables better control

  • Pages: 38
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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OCT for automated conventional welding in the automotive industry: Optical coherence tomography provides robotic GMAW with a process and quality monitoring function

Nataliya Deyneka Dupriez & Samuel Adolph (both: Lessmüller Lasertechnik)

Laser Plastic Processing

Flexible laser plastic welding as an addition to AM: Highly efficient welding of additively manufactured thermoplastic components

Lea Kroth, René Geiger (both: Evosys), Sebastian-Paul Kopp, and Katja Tangermann-Gerk (both: Bayerisches Laserzentrum)

Additive Manufacturing

Increasing productivity by combining laser processes: Laser-based postprocessing of additively manufactured metal parts

Markus Hofele (LAZ Aalen UAS) & Matthias Buser (IFSW U Stuttgart)

Laser Sources

Tracking greenhouse gases with a laser: Fraunhofer ILT researchers develop advanced lidar systems to tackle global methane emissions and improve climate monitoring

  • Pages: 53-55
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Calendar

Calendar

  • Pages: 56
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Events

Events: PhotonicsViews 4/2024

  • Pages: 57-60
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Buyers’ Guide

  • Pages: 61-63
  • First Published: 01 September 2024

Index & Masthead

Company Index

  • Pages: 65
  • First Published: 01 September 2024
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Photonics

Flexible laser plastic welding as an addition to AM

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Individualization, shorter product cycles and prototyping are leading to increased use of additive manufacturing in industry. A reliable and versatile process like laser...
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Evosys moves – in Germany and in the US

28.11.2023 -

Erlangen service subsidiary and American branch move into new premises.
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Evosys receives Top 100 seal and Best of Industry Award

07.02.2023 -

In the 30th round of the Top 100 innovation competition, the laser welding experts from Erlangen were successful once again after 2020.
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Evosys receives Bavaria innovation award

28.11.2022 -

Evosys is winner of the first main prize of this year's Bavarian innovation award. The jury was impressed by the patented AQW laser welding process.
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Evosys expands into Poland and Turkey

29.03.2022 -

With its representatives Trumachines in Poland and Tamsa Makina in Turkey, Evosys Laser has strengthened its global presence. Both companies already have elementary...
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Okke Ottenlinger to head Evosys China

13.12.2021 -

Since 1 November, Okke Ottenlinger is the new managing director of the German laser systems producer’s Chinese subsidiary Evosys Suzhou Laser System Co Ltd. – another...
Photonics

Increased laser welding efficiency with patented process

19.10.2021 -

Technical article by Lea Sauerwein, Christian Ebenhöh, and René Geiger in the current issue 5/2021 of PhotonicsViews: a new approach to the joining of polymers combines...
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PhotonicsViews issue 5/2021 is out

04.10.2021 -

Issue 5/2021 – October/November’21 – is out, including articles from AdlOptica, Evosys, HD Vision Systems, Holo/Or, Lasea, Lessmüller Lasertechnik, Luleå University of...

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