New edition of most trusted optoelectronics industry magazine, Laser Focus World magazine, has been released. In September 2014 issue, you can read latest optoelectronics industry news and developments in advanced semiconductors, medical equipment, lasers, optics and aviation and aerospace such as Terahertz reflectometry identifies early skin cancer, Ultrahigh-speed VCSEL reaches 40 Gbit/s, and FiberLock actively optimizes laser-to-optical-fiber coupling.
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Photonics Products: Photodiodes: Silicon low-light photodiodes don’t miss a photon
Avalanche photodiodes, silicon photomultipliers, and their variants serve low-light-detection needs, even counting single photons when needed.
Fiber For Fiber Lasers: Kagome PC fiber goes to extremes for ultrashort-pulse lasers
Ultralow-loss, robust single-mode operation for an ultrashort-pulse laser with 1 mJ pulse energy and intensity nearing petawatts per square centimeter is demonstrated using hypocycloid-shaped-core kagome photonic-crystal fiber.
Photonic Frontiers: Facial Recognition: Still overcoming challenges, facial recognition technology advances
The best laboratory systems are coming close to matching human performance in face identification. But is that good enough for demanding applications in security and law enforcement or broad use in social media?
Solid-State Lasers: Ultrafast scientific lasers undergo an industrial revolution
By taking advantage of expertise from the world of industrial lasers, ultrafast lasers have become simpler and more reliable, yielding improvements in cost of data and data throughput.
Optical Systems: Transmissive high-energy laser optics: Manufacturing and testing considerations
There are many decisions to make when designing, specifying, manufacturing, and testing optical components for high-energy laser systems-each is a potential failure mechanism that must be understood and controlled.
Spectroscopy: High-resolution spectrometers shrink down with SWIFTS
SWIFTS is a new principle of spectroscopy that can be implemented in an integrated chip, delivering picometer resolution over a spectral range of several hundred nanometers.
Nanometrology: Plasmon rulers: The optical angstrometers
Evolving nanofabrication techniques suggest that plasmon rulers can potentially serve as easy-to-use optical “angstrometers”.
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About Laser Focus World Magazine :
Laser Focus World is a monthly magazine for engineers, researchers, scientists, and technical professionals providing comprehensive global coverage of optoelectronics technologies, applications, and markets.Each month LFW reports on and analyzes the latest developments and significant trends in both technology and business in the worldwide optoelectronics and photonics industry. A must read for engineers, engineering managers, scientists, researchers and technical professionals for technical information on lasers, optics, detectors, imaging, fiberoptics, instrumentation and software.
