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    • Detectors & Imaging

    The laserfocusworld.com Detectors & Imaging channel features articles and other content that discuss components, systems, and applications of detectors and imaging technology.

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    Professor Hele Savin (left) and her group used the Micronova micro- and nanofabrication center at Aalto University to fabricate their germanium infrared photodiodes.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Black germanium boosts infrared photodiode responsivity

    Sally Cole Johnson
    Feb. 19, 2025
    Researchers create a germanium infrared photodiode that’s 35% more responsive at 1.55 µm—a common wavelength for telecommunications—than its other germanium and indium gallium...
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    Lead researchers Dr. Song Wang (left), a research scientist at SMART DiSTAP, and Dr. Yangyang Han (right), a senior postdoctoral associate at SMART DiSTAP.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    First-of-its-kind chromatic sensor detects plant distress

    Justine Murphy
    Feb. 17, 2025
    It’s not always easy to tell if a plant is dehydrated, and sometimes it’s too late to save it. But a sensor designed by an international team of scientists detects distress in...
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    Gii: A pure, porous three-dimensional carbon nanostructure poised to revolutionize sensing.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Breakthrough material for broadband photodetectors: Gii

    Des Gibson
    Feb. 6, 2025
    A sustainable carbon nanomaterial “Gii” is poised to revolutionize broadband photodetectors because it can absorb the full spectrum of light—from ultraviolet to infrared.
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    CCD-in-CMOS image sensors.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Ultrafast cameras get next-gen high-quantum-efficiency, low-noise CMOS image sensors

    Phil Brown
    Jan. 29, 2025
    A novel structure design within a photodiode creates drift fields to increase the velocity of signal electrons that allows them to be swept out of the photodiode and sampled much...
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    Podcasts

    PODCAST: Interview with Nikhil Balram, Mojo Vision

    Justine Murphy
    Jan. 7, 2025
    Episode 33 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Nikhil Balram, CEO of Mojo Vision.

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    Detectors & Imaging

    2k and 4k line scan cameras integrate shading correction

    Basler AG
    Jan. 24, 2025
    The racer 2 line scan camera series has added 12 new racer 2 S models for mainstream applications.
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    Detectors & Imaging

    sCMOS camera detects trace concentrations of species

    Andor Technology
    Nov. 21, 2024
    The Marana 4.2B-6 back-illuminated 4.2-Mpixel scientific CMOS (sCMOS) model now offers a low noise mode with read noise of 1.0 e-.
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    Detectors & Imaging

    Photodiodes offering can measure VCSELs

    Instrument Systems GmbH
    Nov. 13, 2024
    PD 100 photodiodes are detectors for measurement of radiant flux in the VIS to NIR region.
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    2025 SPIE Prism Award finalists and award recipients will be honored during a January 29th gala evening at SPIE Photonics West.
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    SPIE names 2025 Prism Award finalists

    SPIE: The Int'l Society for Optics & Photonics
    Nov. 12, 2024
    Rapidly developing technology areas such as quantum, sensors, imaging, and biomedical showcase the range and variety of this year's entries and finalists.