SHOW SPIE PHOTONICS EUROPE
Flexing photonic muscles in Brussels
SPIE Photonics Europe is set to take place from the 3 to 7 April in Brussels, Belgium. Here we preview some of the technology and conference sessions planned for the trade show
Among the technology on display will be AdlOptica’s PiShaper laser beam shaping tool, which is designed to be used with multi- kilowatt fibre lasers in systems for material processing. The device converts a divergent beam with a Gaussian or similar profile, to a round, elliptic or linear laser spot of several millimetres or tens of micrometres in size with a doughnut, inverse-Gaussian or flat- top intensity distribution.
www.adloptica.com
Avantes will display its AvaSpec- NIR512-2.5-HSC spectrometer, a 512-pixel thermo-electrically cooled fibre optic spectrometer covering the wavelengths 1,000-2,500nm. The company will also be showcasing
Hamamatsu Photonics will introduce the latest development within its MEMS spectrometer range, the C12880MA, an ultra-compact, fingertip size spectrometer head offering wider spectral response and high sensitivity over the UV to visible range.
its AvaSpec-ULS2048L-USB2-EVO spectrometer, a USB3 and Gigabit Ethernet enabled fibre spectrometer. The Evo offers data transfer rates of 1.1ms per scan, and on-board memory capacity for up to 50,000 spectra. Avantes is a global leader in the field of fibre optic spectroscopy providing spectrometers, light sources, and fibre optics in the 190- 2,500nm spectrum.
www.avantes.com
PHOTONICS UNDER DISCUSSION
SPIE Photonics Europe will run conference sessions with topics ranging from nanophotonics, biophotonics, optical modelling, silicon photonics, nonlinear optics, solar energy, and quantum technologies, when the show takes place in Brussels from the 3 to 7 April.
Among the events scheduled is a special workshop on the properties of optical glass run by Schott, to be held on the 4 April. There will also be a one-day workshop about graphene on the 5 April, which will focus on the applications and commercialisation
of graphene-based photonics technology. Plenary speakers at the trade show include John Dudley from the Université Franche-Comte, France, who will discuss the legacy of the 2015 International Year of Light; Cesar Jauregui Misas from Friedrich Schiller-University in Jena, Germany will talk about the challenges and perspectives in high-power fibre lasers; while Ferenc Krausz at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Physics in Germany will speak on attosecond metrology. All three will give presentations on the 4 April.
On the 5 April, there will be a presentation remembering the late Wolfgang Sandner, director general of the Extreme Light Infrastructure Delivery Consortium, who died on the 5 December 2015, aged 66. Also on the 5 April, Katrin Amunts of the University of Düsseldorf will speak about ultra-high resolution models of the human brain, while Sarah Bohndiek of the University of Cambridge will discuss detecting new contrast in biomedical optics. On the 5 April, Michael Liehr, CEO of the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated
Photonics (AIM Photonics), will give a presentation on this US public-private partnership, to be followed by a panel discussion on commercialisation of photonic technologies, moderated by James Regan, CEO of Effect Photonics.
The final day of the conference, on the 7 April, will have two keynote presentations, one from David Sampson at the University of Western Australia about probing tissue mechanics with optics, and the other from Miles Padgett of the University of Glasgow, entitled ‘Single-photon, ghost imaging with a camera’.
The C12880MA offers a spectral range of 340-850nm and a sensitivity two orders of magnitude higher than the original C12666MA micro-spectrometer, which won the 2015 Prism Award for detectors and sensors at Photonics West 2015. Built using Hamamatsu MEMS and image sensor technologies, the spectrometer measures only 20.1 × 12.5 × 10.1mm in size, making it ideal for portable measurement devices (including compatibility
with smartphones and tablets) in applications such as colour monitoring, LED testing, water quality monitoring and other environmental measurement instruments.
Also on show will be the
improved Orca-Flash4.0 V2 scientific CMOS camera, which delivers peak quantum efficiency (QE) of 82 per cent. The camera has a wide field of view, wide dynamic range and fast frame rates.
www.hamamatsu.com
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