Optical Components, Coatings & Materials News

1. How Do Your Industrial Coatings Systems Hold Up? 10/16/2020

   Laser Components, a global manufacturer of laser optics, offers a wide array of optimally adapted products to meet every customer’s unique requirements. From substrate production and coatings to thorough outgoing goods inspection, all operating steps are carried out in house. Many end products, such as internal coating optics from NUTECH, require small numbers of precisely manufactured optics, used to equip tubes and hollow bodies with corrosion and wear protection from the inside.

2. Ultrashort Pulse Lasers For Large Components 10/9/2020

   A paradigm shift is underway in manufacturing. A research team with staff from the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen on its roster has broken new ground by using numerous laser beams as tools to structure surfaces.

3. Blocking Vibrations That Remove Heat Could Boost Efficiency Of Next-Gen Solar Cells 10/5/2020

   Led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a study of a solar-energy material with a bright future revealed a way to slow phonons, the waves that transport heat.

4. Jabil Photonics Successfully Trials Unamplified Links Reaching General Availability Of Its CFP2 Digital Coherent Optics (DCO) 100G/200G Module 10/1/2020

   Jabil Inc. today announced that its Photonics business unit, a leading provider of customized end-to-end design, manufacturing and test solutions for optical communications products, successfully completed live network trials for the application of 100G in unamplified metro regional link scenarios.

5. Chemical Innovation Stabilizes Best-Performing Perovskite Formulation 10/1/2020

   Publishing in Science, researchers at EPFL have successfully overcome a limiting problem with stabilizing the best-performing formulation of metal-halide perovskite films, a key player in a range of applications, including solar cells.

6. PG&O® Offers Highly-Durable Sapphire Optics 9/29/2020

   Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O - www.pgo.com), a world-renowned precision glass, fabricated optics, and thin-film optical coatings manufacturer, now offers sapphire optics for a wide variety of highly durable and broad spectrum applications in medical, military, industrial, and aerospace tasks. Sapphire optics are ideal for use in lasers, imaging, LEDs, fiber optics, and more.

7. Discover The New Bandpass Filter BP 850-80 HT From Schneider-Kreuznach 9/29/2020

   Schneider-Kreuznach is pleased to present the new BP 850-80 HT infrared filter as an addition to its range of bandpass filters. This filter has been specially developed for applications with powerful infrared high-power LED’s (850nm), which are becoming increasingly popular. Cameras equipped with these LED’s can deliver night-time images up to 20-30 meters. The Schneider-Kreuznach infrared filter in combination with an 850nm LED light source produces strong and shadow-free infrared illumination that is visible to many sensors but invisible to the human eye. Therefore, it is perfectly suitable for the use in surveillance systems and industrial applications.

8. Annual LiDAR Conference Features NH Based LASER COMPONENTS USA Presentation 9/16/2020

   The LIDAR 3rd Annual Conference and Exhibition is being held virtually September 22-24, 2020. LASER COMPONENTS USA, Inc. is pleased to announce Matt Robinson, Sales Director, as one of the presenters.

9. VLC Photonics Designs An Indium Phosphide Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) For Secure Quantum Communications In The Network As Part Of CiViQ H2020 Project 8/27/2020

   We live in the era of digital information, where communications through electronic devices and channels has become an essential aspect in our daily lives, mainly driven by the disruptive and innovative wave of the microelectronics industry, Internet cloud computing, or even streaming services.

10. Photonics Researchers Report Breakthrough In Miniaturizing Light-Based Chips 8/26/2020

    Photonic integrated circuits that use light instead of electricity for computing and signal processing promise greater speed, increased bandwidth, and greater energy efficiency than traditional circuits using electricity.