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Your Guide To Photonics West 2026: Conferences, Exhibits & Networking In San Francisco
Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco offers technical conferences, courses, and a major photonics exhibition, plus networking and career events for optics professionals.
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Why Gravitational Wave Science Is The Future Of Astronomy
LIGO’s 2025 detection confirmed Hawking’s black hole area theorem, proving black holes only grow post-merger and highlighting gravitational wave astronomy’s future.
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Unencrypted Satellites Reveal The Power Of Narrow Optical Links
UCSD/UMD researchers found sensitive satellite data unencrypted; optical links offer narrow, secure beams, highlighting photonics’ role in protecting transmissions.
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High-Speed Cameras: Trends, Innovations, And The Challenges Ahead
High-speed cameras are advancing into new spectral bands, integrating AI, and enhancing sensitivity, but challenges such as data bottlenecks and trade-offs persist.
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How Thin-Film Coating Advancements Are Improving Device Performance
Thin-film coatings – crucial in telecommunications, healthcare diagnostics, consumer electronics, aerospace defense, automotive, and industrial automation – continue to evolve, and their role in enabling high-capacity data transmission and improving device functionality is becoming more prominent.
MILITARY & DEFENSE VIDEOS
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Discover how Zygo's precision and reliability support mission-critical aerospace and defense applications with ruggedized optical components and market-leading metrology technology.
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Telops has responded to the request of their customers for a smaller version of their Hyper-Cam hyperspectral camera and has miniaturized it enough so that it can be integrated into smaller systems and packages.
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Craig Taylor with Qioptiq, an Excelitas Technologies Company spent some time with us on day two of the DSS exhibition to give us an overview of some of his division’s work in optical modules and systems used in the aerospace and defense markets. He then turns it over to Eric Desfonds with Excelitas so he could catch us up on some of their more recent product developments, including their newly launched N-type quadrant detectors.
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In this video, Precision Optics Corp president Joe Forkey gives us a brief overview of his company and then gives us a closer look at some of the things they featured at their Photonics West booth.
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In this video, Jim Hooker, from L-3 Applied Optics Center, gives us an overview of his company and their capabilities.
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Eric Desfonds with Excelitas runs us through their offerings displayed at SPIE DSS 2013.
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George Murray, sales manager at Inrad Optics, walks us through his company’s array of non-linear crystals for q-switches and frequency doubling devices, solar blind filters for early warning missile detection, and much more.