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Challenges and Opportunities for the LED Lighting Fixture Market

In recent years, LED technology has made impressive performance gains, which in turn have improved the efficacy of LED lighting fixtures. The adoption of LED lighting fixtures in the general lighting market will require a new way of looking at lighting, and the value of lighting. The webcast will discuss the drivers and challenges that affect the emerging LED lighting fixture industry.

Fundamentals of Photonics: Lasers for Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy has always required lasers on the cutting edge of technology. Spectroscopists seek broadly tunable lasers for flexibility in experiments and their ability to scan across large chunks of spectrum. They also seek lasers with single frequency output and extreme frequency stability. And for time-resolved spectroscopy, they want extremely short pulse durations. Naturally, no single ...

LED Luminaire Photometry & Performance Testing

The continuing evolution of solid-state lighting has been driven by ever-present market factors such as improved energy efficiency, increased product life, reduction of maintenance costs, and lessening environmental impacts. These market drivers have generated a desire for energy-efficient products such as solid-state lighting, but before a full-scale industry transformation can take place, it ...

Fundamentals of Photonics: Fiber Lasers

Fiber lasers have relatively recently burst upon the photonics scene as something manufacturers are eager to offer in their product line-up, and something users are clamoring for. In this webcast, the third of the Fundamentals of Photonics series, Laser Focus World contributing editor and author Jeff Hecht, reviews fiber laser basics, including their design, type of active material in the core,...

High-Powered Diode Lasers

High-power diode lasers have become essential building blocks of photonics systems because they can efficiently convert electrical energy into light. In this webcast, the fifth of the Fundamentals of Photonics Series, Laser Focus World contributing editor and author Jeff Hecht reviews the basics of diode lasers, and how they are scaled to deliver high power with high efficiency. He reviews the ...

Diode Pumping and Diode Pumped Lasers

In this "Fundamentals of Photonics" Webcast, Jeff Hecht describes how diode pumping works, how diode-pumping improves the performance of solid-state and fiber lasers, and how diode pumping affects solid-state and fiber laser applications.

Thermal Design for Enhanced LED Performance

Thermal management is a critical aspect of the design of almost every LED module, light engine, lighting fixture and display. Our speakers will discuss the fundamentals of thermal management and describe how simulation can assist with the design process. They will also discuss how the correct choice of thermal materials will help to make your product a success.

Industrial and Low-light-level Spectroscopy: Instrumentation and Its Applications

This webcast, co-sponsored by Andor Technology (Belfast, Northern Ireland) and Avantes (Eerbeek, the Netherlands), will review some of the latest innovative developments in spectroscopy technology. Antoine Varagnat, market development manager for spectroscopy at Andor Technology will present the available detector technologies used in spectroscopy, and how they compare to electron-multiplying c...

Fundamentals of Photonics: Ultrafast Lasers

Ultrafast lasers have historically been the costly "lasers of last resort" for exotic R&D applications, but recently that's changed. The newest ultrafast products, which are popping up like wildflowers at companies around the globe, offer turnkey access to ultrafast pulses. What has changed in ultrafast technology to expand its presence so much? With applications from precise cutting for medica...

Fundamentals of Photonics: Photovoltaics

JEFF HECHT, author of "Understanding Lasers" and long-time contributing editor to Laser Focus World presents a series of Webcasts based on his popular Back-to-Basics feature articles that cover photonics fundamentals. Designed to provide scientists, researchers, and engineers with an overview of lasers and other photonics technologies, these Webcasts will also offer additional insight into how ...

Market Trends and Emerging Applications in the LED Industry

The high-brightness LED market has been in a slow-growth phase since 2004 due to the dominant position of the mobile appliance market, which has become saturated. However, the overall market showed an uptick in growth in 2007, as other applications, especially illumination, continued to perform well, and emerging applications began to show promise for a resumption of higher growth in the future...