Coherent has released the Obis Galaxy, which combines the output of up to eight separate lasers, spanning the 405nm to 640nm wavelength range, into a single-mode fibre
Coherent has released the latest member of the Vitara family of extreme performance, closed-box, ultrafast oscillators, the Vitara UBB
Coherent has expanded its family of industrial ultrafast lasers with the Talisker HE series. The laser has high energy pulses for drilling, cutting, and scribing
Coherent has expanded its family of ultra-fast laser amplifiers with the new Libra-HE+ which, it claims, is now the highest-power one-box, single-stage ultra-fast amplifier available
A new'meterless laser power sensor from Coherent is configured to enable measurements at points deep within instruments and between closely spaced components
Coherent's new Flare is a pulsed laser with three wavelength versions available: near infrared (1064nm), green (532nm) and ultraviolet (355nm)
A new series of Sapphire lasers from Coherent at 594nm are for fluorescence-based applications in life sciences
The Mephisto family of single-frequency lasers from Coherent offer ultra-narrow linewidth ideal for demanding applications such as atom trapping and cooling, optical heterodyning, injection locking and seeding, and other applications that require extremel
The newest AVIA micromachining laser from Coherent delivers what is currently the highest power commercially available at its wavelength and repetition rate
Coherent has expanded its family of industrial ultrafast lasers with the new Talisker 1000 series
Building a new semiconductor fab can cost more than €10bn. Credit: Imec
Proposed multi-billion dollar and euro packages look set to increase uptake of leading-edge lithography, including for photonic technologies, finds Andy Extance
Manx Precision Optics’ polishing lap. Credit: Manx Precision Optics
Benjamin Skuse asks why, after 400 years of polishing optics, the process hasn’t been automated
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
James Webb: A technician inspects the primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope. The team’s improvements involving a Shack-Hartmann sensor have opened up applications for eye doctors examining human eyesight (image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)
How the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing technique can be used to simply and quickly assess the quality of optical systems
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A look at the market for spectroelectrochemistry and some of the products and solutions available
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A look at the current market for Raman spectroscopy and some of the products and solutions available
The panel discussion at Laser Munich, with Leibinger holding the microphone (credit Messe Munchen)
Laser firms could really benefit from quantum computing, which should not just be reserved for the world's big challenges, finds Jessica Rowbury
Credit: Ayar Labs
As Ayar Labs secures investment to develop its silicon photonics technology, Robert Roe speaks to Hugo Saleh about the firm's plans
GasSight is a low-cost imager based on quantum technology that can produce real time video of methane gas. (Credit: QuantIC)
Matthew Dale asks whether quantum technologies are ready to be seen on the global stage at one of the world’s largest photonics exhibitions
