The new Continuously Tunable Laser CTL 900 from Toptica Photonics is tunable between 880 nm and 950 nm. The long-awaited wavelength range is especially useful for resonantly exciting quantum dots, for spectroscopy or addressing, e.g., rare earth ions or the caesium D1 line.

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“The Future Depends on Optics”: With a broad range of optical components and imaging products, Edmund Optics enables solutions addressing the challenges of our future and adopts its portfolio always reflecting customer and market needs.
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Smart factories and optimized design and production environments rely on digital tools and cloud-based services
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The Polarization Analyzer for state of polarization measurement, precise alignment of polarization-maintaining fibers and accurate adjustment of arbitrary states of polarization
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Toptica’s highly modular 19” laser rack systems integrate high-end laser system solutions into an industrial form factor.
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Hübner Photonics is one of the leading manufacturers of high performance lasers for research and analytical instrumentation
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The use of a smart line scan camera system should especially be considered when machine vision has to be integrated in an existing application. A modular system has advantages regarding space requirements and offers greater flexibility compared to an all-in-one solution, p. 50

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Coherence Matters! Making light work in superresolution microscopy with the new Hübner Photonics Cobolt Rogue 640 nm laser, p. 22

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The assembly of complex optical systems requires highest accuracy. Active Alignment helps to reduce cycle times by two orders of magnitude. Learn more on: www.pi.ws/active-alignment

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Fiber coupling to polarization-maintaining fibers and collimation – measured fiber parameters help to chose the best coupling and collimation optics, p. 32
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One of the two dominating options of pre-assembled Fast Axis Collimators (FACs) is FACs on bottom tabs. Bottom tabs provide advantages such as better ther-mal conductivity between the FAC and the mechanical holder as well as a more mechanically robust design. (Source: Fisba)

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Fisba READYBeam – a simple, ultra-compact and powerful laser source. It dramatically reduces the footprint, development time and integration risk of multiple wavelength sources for Industrial and Diagnostic applications.
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The redesigned Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) of the ESA space telesope Euclid, a mission to map the geometry of the Universe. (Source: Euclid Cons. / CPPM / LAM)

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Characterizing spherical, aspherical, free-form lenses with a non-destructive tomographic OCT measuring method for geometrically complex micro-optics (Source: Fh. IPT)

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Processing of an automotive structural component with the multi-functional tool developed in the proj-ect MultiPROmobil – cutting, welding, and additive manufacturing with one laser in one machine (Source: Fh. ILT)

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Anamorphic beam shaping optics are used to transform elliptical laser beams to a round shape or vice versa. 56

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New cw high power blue diode laser allows controlled heat conduction welding of copper.

(Source: Laserline)

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Working within the framework of Lyteus, Holst Centre and Fraunhofer FEP step into the spotlight with the creation of the world’s longest single-device OLED, a 15-meter roll-to-roll OLED. (Source: Lyteus)

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Joint research project “eVerest” to enable efficient machining of surfaces in the automobile industry: The steering wheel alone has four differently structured surfaces, creating a high-quality impression of the car and its fittings. (Sources: Münster University of Applied Sciences)

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The use of a smart line scan camera systems should especially be considered when machine vision has to be integrated in an existing application. A modular system consisting of a line scan camera and the Smart Control Box has advantages regarding space requirements and offers greater flexibility compared to an all-inone solution. (Source: Schäfter+Kirchhoff)

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Traceability and/or protection against counterfeit for products or components out of glass require some kind of markings.
In many cases these markings have to be invisible by the human eye. The latter condition requires marking sizes of only a few hundred microns. (Source: Photon Energy)

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Karlsruhe Insti tute of Tech nology scientists have developed a forming technology to structure quartz glass like a polymer.
“Glassomer” can be milled, turnered, lasered, or processed in CNC machines, for uses in the optical industry,  microelectronics, biotech nology, and medical engineering. (Source: M. Breig, KIT)

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Fisba designs and manufactures custom micro optics for laser diodes, which include FACs, SACs, SAC arrays and FBTs. For diode lasers to reach their full potential, output beams must be shaped to optimize optical quality. Fisba’s components enable this precise collimation and beam shaping.
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Optical 3D measuring system for realtime quality control using GOBO projection at 36Hz 3D rate, to be seen at Fraunhofer Vision Alliance-co-organized special show Contactless Measuring Technology at Control 2018. (Source: Fraunhofer IOF)

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Lighting effects achieved by defined nanostructures – created with the help of a new software module that will be refined in the LiNaBioFluid and DPP² projects (Source: Fraunhofer IPT)

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The Lawrence Livermore L3-HAPLS high repetition rate advanced petawatt laser system, designed, developed and constructed in only three years, was installed in December at the ELI Beamlines Research Center in Dolní Brežany, Czech Republic. (Source: LLNL / D. Jemison)

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