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    Detectors & Imaging

    Deep learning methods enable image enhancement advances

    Bhawna Goyal
    June 5, 2024
    How can algorithms improve image enhancement?
    FIGURE 1. At the end of the fiber, the output field is no longer the same as the input field. To absorb the outgoing wave, a general absorbing artificial material is used (aka a perfectly matched layer).
    Software & Accessories

    Full-wave multiphysics simulation of optical fibers

    Yosuke Mizuyama
    July 25, 2022
    Full-wave multiphysics simulations for optical fibers require sophisticated modeling and simulation techniques.
    (Image credit: Endeavor Business Media)
    Podcasts

    PODCAST: Interview with Gisele Bennett, VP of Optica

    Justine Murphy
    March 5, 2024
    Episode 2 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Gisele Bennett, the recently elected 2024 Vice President of Optica.
    Software & Accessories

    API library designed for machine vision developers

    LFW Staff
    March 4, 2024
    Spinnaker 4 is a GeniCam3 API library for machine vision developers to evaluate, test, and deploy products.
    (Image credit: Adobe Stock | #70060409)
    Software & Accessories

    Optical design software: From nano to system scale

    Sanjay Gangadhara
    March 1, 2024
    Design engineers must be able to perform highly accurate simulations at multiple scales to predict the performance of modern optical devices.
    Thinoxide Software
    Software & Accessories

    Web-based thin-film design software program available

    LFW Staff
    Oct. 21, 2023
    Thinoxide is a free, web-based software that provides a graphical implementation of the thin-film transfer-matrix method for prototyping interference-based structures such as ...
    Mks Ophir
    Software & Accessories

    Laser beam analysis software is designed for additive manufacturing

    LFW Staff
    Sept. 24, 2023
    BeamPeek software is designed for real-time measurement of lasers in additive manufacturing chambers.
    (Image credit: Flexcompute)
    FIGURE 1. Schematic illustration of the PSR (a), simulated mode conversion efficiencies at the top and bottom waveguides with TE0 mode as the input (b), and simulated mode conversion efficiencies at the top and bottom waveguides with TM0 mode as the input (c) are shown. The insets show the field intensity plots.
    Software & Accessories

    Breaking time barriers: Millimeter-scale photonic simulations in minutes

    Tom Chen
    Sept. 20, 2023
    Two case studies demonstrate the transformative impact of advanced parallel computing on the field of computational electromagnetics.
    Digital Metrology Solutions
    Software & Accessories

    Metrology software offers built-in crosshatch functionality

    LFW Staff
    Sept. 8, 2023
    TraceBoss+ surface roughness measurement software allows users to acquire an image of surface texture from any USB-equipped microscope.