Optical Components, Coatings & Materials News

1. Laser Components Features Quality Powell Lenses For Line Lasers 6/18/2021

   Laser Components now has the capability to manufacture high quality Powell lenses in-house. Powell lenses generate lines by transforming narrow laser beams into straight lines with uniform intensity profile unlike standard cylindrical lenses that also create laser lines but with uneven Gaussian profiles.

2. New Xenon-Jade Lens Series For 1.2" Sensors 6/10/2021

   Schneider-Kreuznach introduces the new, robust Xenon-Jade lens family for 1.2" sensors.

3. MKS Launches Ophir® MWIR Folded Zoom Lens With Disruptive Range And SWaP Capabilities For Drone And Small Gimbal Applications 4/13/2021

   Innovative LightIR 16-180mm f/3.6 folded zoom lens addresses market shift toward smaller size, weight, and power (SWaP) 10μm VGA FPA detectors.

4. Optical Components Enabling LiDAR: Recent Trends And Developments 3/23/2021

   The ADAS Sensors 2021 Virtual Conference features NH-based laser components. Susan Wells, Sales Manager, IR Components, APD and PLD will present on the topic of Optical Components Enabling LiDAR: Recent Trends and Developments.

5. Alluxa’s Optical Filters Landed On Mars 3/9/2021

   Alluxa’s optical filters, specially designed for the advanced fluorescence spectrometer on the Mars Perseverance Rover, landed safely on Mars, on February 18, 2021.

6. Twistoptics - A New Way To Control Optical Nonlinearity 3/4/2021

   Nonlinear optics, a study of how light interacts with matter, is critical to many photonic applications, from the green laser pointers we’re all familiar with to intense broadband (white) light sources for quantum photonics that enable optical quantum computing, super-resolution imaging, optical sensing and ranging, and more.

7. The Comb That Can Detect Exoplanets And Diseases 3/4/2021

   The micronucleus can be described as an optical tuning fork, or a light ruler. It is created using a laser and an optical microresonator. The light circulates in a small resonant box and forms a comb that emits a myriad of colors - or frequencies.

8. Fine Steering Mirrors Provide High Speed And Precision Control For Free Space Optical Laser Communications: New From PI 3/3/2021

   PI is extending its offering of fast steering mirrors. The new V-931 two-axis fast steering mirror platform (FSM) is based on a frictionless, precision flexure guiding mechanism, with differential voice-coil drives and optical feedback for accurate closed-loop angular position control.

9. POET Technologies Targets New Markets For Co-Packaged Optics And Optical Sensing Applications With LightBar-C™ Product 2/23/2021

   POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; OTCQX: POETF), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center and tele-communication markets, announced that it has extended the Optical Interposer into new applications and markets with a fully-integrated, multiplexed light-source for optical computing chipsets and sensing applications, named “LightBar-C™”.

10. Artificial Intelligence Predicts Nonlinear Ultrafast Dynamics In Optics 2/18/2021

    Researchers at Tampere University have successfully used artificial intelligence to predict nonlinear dynamics that take place when ultrashort light pulses interact with matter. This novel solution can be used for efficient and fast numerical modelling, for example, in imaging, manufacturing and surgery. The findings were published in the prestigious Nature Machine Intelligence journal.