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In this episode: An ingestible device illuminates the GI tract, an OLED/holographic metasurface combo creates holograms for real-world use, and this week's business news roundup...
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Singular Photonics’ Andarta sensor.
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Sponsored
Laser reliability is critical to ensuring precision, uptime, and safety in a wide range of industries. This whitepaper will examine how lasers perform over time, the impact of...
Sept. 9, 2025
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Engineering a Custom Underwater Lens Assembly for Subsea Imaging
Project Overview: Engineering a Custom Underwater Lens Assembly for Subsea Imaging A leading provider of subsea imaging solutions approached Avantier to develop a ...
Sept. 8, 2025
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Chroma - Sputtered Coatings for Space-Based Optical Systems
In satellite communications (SatCom), precision and reliability are critical to maintaining clear signals and optimizing system performance. At Chroma Technology, we design and...
Sept. 5, 2025
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Case Study-Enhancing Medical Laser Systems with Germanium Meniscus Lenses
Project Background: Germanium Meniscus Lenses for Medical Laser Systems A global leader in medical laser technology, renowned for its cutting-edge surgical and diagnostic systems...
Sept. 5, 2025

Lasers/Sources

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The Gweike M Series 6-in-1 laser processing machine works with a wide range of materials.
Sept. 10, 2025
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The PicoBlade Core ultrafast laser platform offers up to 150-W average power.
Sept. 2, 2025
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The BIDOS P3435 Q BELAGO 1.2 Dot Projector emits light at 940 nm.
Aug. 29, 2025
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FIGURE 1. ULTIMA project’s goals.
High-power fiber lasers enable deep space optical link between an optical ground station on Earth and a spacecraft 300 million kilometers away.
Aug. 28, 2025

Optics

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ODiate Raman longpass optical filters are optimized to block 488-, 532-, 632.8-, and 785-nm laser lines.
Sept. 12, 2025
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The Aura family of 1550-nm noiseless indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) adds a 30-µm optical window version.
Sept. 6, 2025
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Selerion-BHX hybrid organic electro-optic (OEO) material is designed for area-constrained applications requiring bandwidths beyond 100 GHz.
Sept. 4, 2025
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Cross-section of a HCF fabricated by Leah Murphy at the University of Bath, U.K. while developing a model to explain how losses occur.
Hollow-core fiber offers tantalizing improvements in speed, capacity, and signal fidelity—and may become the backbone for 6G, quantum communications, and data-driven, AI-powered...
Sept. 2, 2025

Quantum

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Episode 65 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Part Three of our interview with Robin Hawk, CEO of Galxyz LLC.
Aug. 19, 2025
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Optical metasurfaces can control light by leveraging chirality—difference of a shape from its mirror image or its ‘handedness’—and it can be tuned via polarized light as a simple...
Aug. 13, 2025
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Episode 64 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Part Two of our interview with Robin Hawk, CEO of Galxyz LLC.
Aug. 12, 2025
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Episode 63 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Part One of our interview with Robin Hawk, CEO of Galxyz LLC.
Aug. 5, 2025

Test/Measurement

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ImageQuality Hub software provides harmonization and visualization of measurement data for image quality.
Sept. 8, 2025
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Infiltration of the nanosensor solution into a plant leaf.
Making it easier to monitor plants and their growth, a first-of-its-kind nanosensor could help safeguard healthy crops.
Aug. 21, 2025
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Reflections in nature can lead to reflections in the mind and lab.
Integrating novel magneto-plasmonic cryosorets onto a photonic crystal interface enables harnessing both electric and magnetic components of light—and it shows promise for highly...
Aug. 14, 2025
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The READYFlow beam shaping module supports standard cytometry wavelengths, including 488, 561, and 640 nm.
Aug. 5, 2025

Detectors/Imaging

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The Visoria upright microscope series offers models for industries spanning life sciences to geology.
Aug. 27, 2025
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The MIRA shortwave-infrared (SWIR) camera is powered by a SWIFT-EI indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) detector.
Aug. 17, 2025
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The ORCA-Halo C17440-20U scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera features a back-illuminated sensor with a peak quantum efficiency of 86%.
Aug. 9, 2025
AR glasses enable seamless shopping experiences by automatically recognizing selected items and completing payments—no cash register required. Personalized recommendations and targeted advertisements are displayed in real time for each customer.
Waveguides play a vital role in commercializing augmented reality (AR) glasses—but their performance must go beyond optics to improve power efficiency, durability, and scale cost...
Aug. 6, 2025

Executive Forum

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U.S. Patent application submissions (yearly).
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