Optek Technology has developed a thermally conductive aluminium substrate, which provides solid state lighting design engineers with a means of dissipating heat in visible LED applications.
Northrop Grumman Synoptics is now offering composite solid-state laser rods, plates and slabs in YAG, ceramic YAG, YLF and YVO4.
Raicol Crystals is providing two new nonlinear optical materials for laser applications. The RTP Q-Switch operates at 500KHz Repetition Rate for nano, pico and femtosecond lasers.
Organoid imaged with Andor’s desktop confocal microscope system, the BC43. Credit: Andor
As microscopes become ever more powerful, a growing band of businesses are racing to make the latest technologies more accessible and more affordable, reports Rebecca Pool
Illustration of a three-dimensional crystal with various types of confining centres. (a) Crystal with four confining centres, each trapping waves (yellow) in all three dimensions simultaneously. (b) Crystal with a linear confining centre where waves can propagate in one dimension, analogous to an optical fibre. (c) Crystal with a planar confining centre where waves can propagate in two dimensions, analogous to a 2D electron gas. (Image: Vos et al.)
Newly discovered fundamental rules have been embedded into software to dramatically optimise the design of photonic integrated circuits
