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NEW Content Issue 02/2010 - FOCUS: ADVANCED OPTICAL COMPONENTS
EDITORIAL
NEWS & INFOS
INTERVIEW
Stability in the Phase of Change
Volker Brockmeyer
Over the past few years, Qioptiq has made a number of acquisitions, including such established firms as LINOS in Germany. Today, Qioptiq is a global player in the photonics market. In an interview Volker Brockmeyer, Qioptiq Executive Vice President and Managing Director of LINOS Photonics GmbH&Co. KG, talks about how this came about.
PRODUCTS
New Products
AMS Technologies, Coherent (Deutschland), CryLaS, EHD imaging, Frankfurter Laser Company, Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland, IMPEX HighTech, JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Krüss, Laser Components, Laseroptik, LightTrans, MolTech, OWIS, Rauscher, Schaefer Technologie, SIOS Meßtechnik, SVS-Vistek, TRIOPTICS, VDS Vosskühler, Von Gegerfelt Photonics
ORGANIZATIONS & INITIATIVES
Targeting Unmet Medical Needs
Biophotonics4Life Worldwide Consortium
Spectaris: Out of the Economic Slowdown
RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
Dielectric Gratings Come into Focus
Steering the Beam of a Microlaser
Miniaturized 3D Worlds
Video-Rate STED Nanoscopy
ULTRAFAST IMAGING
Breaking the Speed and Sensitivity Limits
Bahram Jalali, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Keisuke Goda
High-throughput imaging combined with microfluidics could revolutionize pathology and cancer screening, for example, as a label-free cell identification method. A new approach to imaging, Serial Time-Encoded Amplified Microscopy, overcomes fundamental limits of the classic sensor technology and offers new opportunities for many applications.
FIBERS
Photonic Crystal Fiber
Kim P. Hansen, Husain Imam
Intelligent design of photonic crystal fiber technology allows the realization of extra functionality within the fiber, paving the way for simpler, turnkey systems. High power, true single mode amplification, broadband supercontinuum generation and efficient filtering are just some of the unique features that can be integrated.
ADVANCED OPTICAL COMPONENTS
Nanoimprint Lithography
Thomas Glinsner, Gerald Kreindl, Michael Kast
Image sensors represent a multi-billion-dollar market. To drive down manufacturing costs while enabling increased device performance, manufacturers are looking to innovative production methods for the fabrication of micro lenses in CMOS image sensors, to name one example. With relatively low costs, resolution scalability and high pattern repeatability, nanoimprint lithography might prove to be the answer.
Photonic Submicron-Structures
Uwe D. Zeitner, Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tünnermann
Progress in the development of lithographic fabrication technologies has moved their use for the realization of novel gratings into the focus of modern optics. In particular, the use of sub-wavelength patterns based on the effective media approach paves the way for novel grating functionalities and applications.
Creating Complex Coatings
Iain MacMillan, Martin Weinacht
The fabrication of high precision optical coatings has historically used evaporative deposition. Advancements in coating techniques, such as advanced plasma reactive sputtering, combined with improvements in substrate handling, have made sputtering a more efficient means of fabricating complex coatings at a lower cost.
Precision Molded Lens Arrays Made of Glass
Steffen Reichel, Ralf Biertümpfel
In order to meet the rising demands on optical components for expanding lighting markets, suppliers are developing new ways to manufacture components on a larger scale. An improved precision molding process for producing strips and arrays of mini glass lenses enables compact designs of light sources as well as optical systems.
TUTORIAL
Laser-Based Particle Acceleration
Malte Kaluza
High-power laser systems can provide extreme energy densities and focused light intensities. Plasmas generated by such a laser can both sustain and supply huge electric fields. These plasmas can be used as a novel type of accelerator structure for electrons and ions displaying properties favorable for a number of future applications.
CALENDAR
MEETINGS
BUYERS`GUIDE
ADVERTISER INDEX & MASTHEAD
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