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August/September 2021

FormFactor's fast photonic wafer probers enable rapid tests through faster photonic alignment than previously possible. (Credit: FormFactor Inc)

Feature

Testing and alignment seek to scale up manufacture

7 September 2021

Integration, automation, collaboration, customisation and designing for testing and manufacturability will help component and system makers lower costs and increase production, finds Andy Extance

June 2021

May 2021

Imec is using a high harmonic generation laser with anamorphic mirrors to explore high NA EUV challenges

Feature

Chipmakers look to EUV lithography’s next generation

13 May 2021

Semiconductor manufacturers want the next big thing: to adopt high numerical aperture lithographic processes using extreme ultraviolet light to print smaller circuits. Andy Extance finds out more

 

Analysis and opinion

It’s all in the data

10 May 2021

Carlos Lee, Epic’s director general, talks with Ben Rubovitch, co-founder and CEO at DustPhotonics, a supplier of optical technology for silicon photonics

April 2021

Feature

Covid-19 impacts doctors' trust in point-of-care tests

8 April 2021

With huge opportunities for light-based diagnostics and therapeutics to combat disease, successful clinical translation depends on funding robust trials – and greater trust between developers and end-users, finds Jessica Rowbury 

This image shows perovskite photovoltaics in the background with individual perovskite crystals shown as the colourful units. (Credit: CUBE3D Graphic)

Product focus

Souped-up solar absorption with perovskites

26 March 2021

Perovskite solar cell design delivers efficiencies to rival those made of silicon

March 2021

Amplitude Laser supplies ophthalmic surgery instrument producers

Feature

Boosting ultrafast lasers’ medical benefits

22 March 2021

Picosecond and femtosecond lasers are moving beyond ophthalmology into applications including cancer screening and therapy, finds Andy Extance

Symetrie’s NanoPos is a miniature hexapod of 68mm height for positioning and adjustment of precision components in six degrees of freedom, with a 10nm resolution.

Product focus

An exact science

26 February 2021

Some of the latest positioning solutions for photonics equipment on the market

February 2021

The EUV source at Fraunhofer ILT’s Excimer facility delivers 40W at 13.5nm

Feature

EUV technology to become more accessible for SMEs

16 February 2021

Keely Portway discovers how lasers are being used to advance Moore’s law, and how this technology could become more accessible to SMEs

Feature

Photonics’ quantum quest

11 February 2021

Keely Portway looks at some of the latest developments in quantum science, and what they could mean for the commercial space

The shape of modern optical components is becoming increasingly complex, which can make them more difficult to coat.

Product focus

Functionalising complex shaped optics

21 January 2021

Dr Kristin Pfeiffer, Pallabi Paul, and Dr Adriana Szeghalmi have developed conformal coating processes for functionalising strongly curved optics

December 2020/January 2021

A rendering of the experimental setup used. Light is reflected down to the nanostructure of molybdenum disulfide (yellow and teal lattice) and PZT (blue and green). Wavelengths reflecting from the surface are captured by the top detector as transmitted wavelengths pass through the PZT to the bottom detector. (Image: Hong et al.)

Product focus

Smaller, more versatile optical filters on the horizon

6 January 2021

Researchers could spur the development of smaller, more versatile optical filters that are especially adept at playing a trick of the light

Analysis and opinion

Ready to recruit remotely?

16 December 2020

Filling technical positions is difficult any time, but the pandemic poses further challenges. Jessica Rowbury reports on a panel discussion where experts gave tips to organisations recruiting during this period

November 2020

Analysis and opinion

Winning investment in 2020

13 November 2020

Following the Inpho Venture Summit in October, Blumorpho CEO, Géraldine Andrieux, discusses how startups should approach pitching for venture capital funding in these uncertain economic times

October 2020

A schematic of Coherent's adjustable ring mode fibre and the five basic power patterns possible within the focused laser spot (Image: Coherent)

Feature

Custom delivery

14 October 2020

Greg Blackman discovers how emerging lasers with adjustable beam quality are improving quality and flexibility in cutting and welding

Richardson during a lab training session with researcher          Chanelle Arias

Analysis and opinion

Making materials science work for all

30 September 2020

Kathleen Richardson, Pegasus Professor at the University of Central Florida, discusses her career developing next-gen materials and her mentorship roles within this

Photonic crystals are responsible for the iridescent colours of a butterfly's wings.

Product focus

Thinner crystals, smaller chips

28 September 2020

Researchers have devised a new way of generating thin 3D photonic crystals that show promise for miniaturising photonic integrated circuits

August/September 2020

Fibre lasers channel the and amplify the light through a fibre optic cable

Feature

Design for life

16 September 2020

Keely Portway takes a look at some of the latest developments in optical fibre design for fibre lasers

In deflectometry, a camera images fringe patterns that have reflected off a surface under test, so that a system can deduce a map of the surface slopes from the deviation of the projected fringes, and from that determine the surface shape. Credit: Mahr

Feature

Getting the measure of aspheric and freeform lenses

4 September 2020

Lens features have been getting too small to properly characterise – but metrology providers are catching up, finds Andy Extance

Many university laboratories using lasers have had to shut down temporarily following a visit from an HSE inspector

Product focus

Shaping up on laser safety

26 August 2020

Matthew Dale learns how the safety knowledge of the laser community is not yet fully up to scratch

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