Newsletter | October 18, 2023

10.18.23 -- Advanced Fiber Optics Enhance Visualization For Robotic Surgery

FROM THE EDITOR

My Flex Sig, Fiber Optics, And OCT

Fiber optics are omnipresent in medicine, helping improve procedures and outcomes. Here we dig into one specific technology making use of fiber optics: optical coherence tomography. As a bonus, you also get to read about my flexible sigmoidoscopy, performed nearly 30 years ago and burned into my mind forever.

SPOTLIGHT ON FIBER OPTICS

Air Bearing-Based Miniature Stages For Fiber-Optics Alignment

Compact air bearing stages provide superior dynamics in multi-axis automated optics and photonics alignment applications.

How Do Fiber Lasers Work?

Fiber optics provide high-speed internet, while fiber lasers generate and transport laser light. Discover how fiber lasers work, their benefits, and how to measure them.

Advanced Fiber Optics Enhance Visualization For Robotic Surgery

For robotic surgery, light guides made from specialty glass fibers can deliver the high-quality light needed to provide a realistic and clear view of the surgical field.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Precision Velocity Measurement With A Non-Contact Displacement Sensor

Non-contact sensing is invaluable in applications where measurements may be rendered imprecise by slippage and poor speed management or equipment or products may be damaged by contact.

Customizing Optical Coatings For A 3D Visual Application

In this case study, we look at the challenge of fabricating a broadband, non-polarizing cube beamsplitter for a 3D visual application.

The Magic Word: Bandwidth

Since the beginning of digitization at the end of the 20th century, the development of networks has been dominated by one topic: bandwidth. Where once telephone, data, and moving images were transmitted across different paths, triple play has now become widely accepted.

SWIR Images Monitor Air Quality From Space

GHGSat's microSat orbits the Earth every 90 minutes capturing infrared images. This data can be used by industries to monitor and measure their carbon dioxide and methane emissions.

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FEATURED MULTIMEDIA

A Broadening Spectral Range For Optical Coatings And Filters

Alluxa's Peter Egerton explains how its deposition process ensures a high degree of uniformity and stability, allowing for steeper slopes and deeper blocking, while maintaining high transmission rates.

FEATURED SOLUTIONS

DFB Lasers And Modules For Precise Fiber Optics

Distributed feedback lasers (DFB) provide smooth, tunable wavelength control and the narrow spectral width required for precise fiber optics, applicable for spectroscopy and fiber optic communications.

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G&H

EMCCD Camera Optimized For UV imaging: Hawk Blue

The Hawk Blue is a cooled HD camera offering back-illuminated EMCCD technology, enabling ultimate sensitivity imaging (<50 μlux) and high QE of 65% at 254 nm.

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Raptor Photonics Limited

Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFAs)

IntelliGain erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA) feature fast transient response time, gain flatness, very low noise, and low power consumption, and meet the Bellcore GR-1312-Core requirements.

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BaySpec Inc.

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