SPIE PHOTONICS WEST 2018 PREVIEW
periods can be as brief as 10µs, effectively managing saturation intensity when measuring high-intensity sources and plasmas. The Ocean FX acquires spectra with such speed that short-lived events can be measured confidently and otherwise undetected spectral effects made evident.
www.oceanoptics.com
Ophir will be displaying the BeamSquared, an M2 laser beam propagation system designed to help users optimise laser performance. A robust, portable device, BeamSquared automatically measures the propagation characteristics of CW and pulsed lasers in less than a minute. It can optionally measure wavelengths above 1.8µm in manual mode, including CO₂ and terahertz. BeamSquared is designed for continuous use applications, from scientific research to rapid prototyping, fabrication and machining. The system includes BeamSquared M2
software and an optical train. The software measures beam propagation characteristics on both the X and Y axes, including waist diameters, full angle divergences, waist locations, Rayleigh lengths, M2
or K and
BPP factors, astigmatism and asymmetry. The system displays 2D or 3D beam profiles for visual verification of beam behaviour through focus.
www.ophiropt.com
PicoQuant will be showcasing its latest innovations in picosecond pulsed diode
Princeton Instruments will introduce its Blaze spectroscopy CCD cameras at the show, featuring revolutionary new sensors with up to three times higher NIR sensitivity and low dark current, which make the camera exceptional for demanding applications such as Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence or photoluminescence. Blaze provides spectral rates of up to thousands of spectra per second. For low light applications, Blaze delivers true -100oC cooling for ultra-low dark current, ideal for long exposures.
www.princetoninstruments.com
lasers for single photon counting, microscopy and spectroscopy applications at booths 306, 4853 and 4859. The highlights at the exhibition will include the high-power pulsed laser VisIR/VisUV platform with the new wavelengths 266, 280, 295, 532, 560 and 590nm, as well as PicoQuant’s new quantum correlation analysis software QuCoa. The company will also be sponsoring
presentations in the field of single molecule spectroscopy and super resolution imaging at the conference session BO503, where Nobel Prize winner Stefan Hell will also hold a talk focused on his most recent research.
www.picoquant.com
Visitors to Quantel and Keopsys booths (8742 and 417) will be able to see both
groups’ range of diodes modules and laser solutions. Quantel and Keopsys groups are merging their resources into a new laser group to offer an extended product portfolio in addition to their existing laser solutions for a variety of application fields like: biotech and medical, material processing, defence, scientific instrumentation, LIBS, laser pumping and fluid dynamics. Quantel and Keopsys groups are also consolidating their activities in the lidar
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Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School). BiOS symposium chairs
are James Fujimoto (MIT) and Rox Anderson (Wellman Centre for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School).
Among the 900 presentations
in the LASE conference will be plenary talks on laser frequency combs and dual-comb spectroscopy (Ursula Keller, ETH Zurich), optical lattice clocks (Hidetoshi Katori, University of Tokyo and Riken), and industrial laser systems and applications (Berthold Schmidt, Trumpf Photonics).
LASE symposium chairs
are Koji Sugioka (Riken) and Reinhart Poprawe (Fraunhofer
“A multi-speaker Neurotechnologies plenary session will include topics such as strategies for observing and controlling neural circuits and in-vivo imaging of the brain”
Institute for Laser Technology). Highlighting 2,000
presentations in OPTO, plenary talks will cover silicon photonics (Andrew Rickman, Rockley Photonics), nanowire LEDs and diode lasers (Pallab Bhattacharya, University of Michigan), and photonics beyond the diffraction limit (Min Gu, RMIT University). There are three new conferences, on 2D Photonic Materials and
Devices, Optical Data Science, and UltraHigh-Definition Imaging Systems. OPTO symposium
chairs are Connie Chang- Hasnain (University of California, Berkeley) and Graham Reed (Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton).
INDUSTRY FOCUS Market trends and business opportunities will be explored in a variety industry-focused sessions, including: a conference on virtual, augmented and mixed reality technology challenges and successes, featuring Bernard Kress (Microsoft/Hololens) and Leo Baldwin (Amazon Functional Photonics); panel
discussions on silicon photonics and photonic integrated circuits, 3D printing and other hot technology topics; updated SPIE analysis on the size of the core photonics market; tips on navigating the innovation ecosystem; the annual SPIE Startup Challenge pitch competition for pre-revenue companies; a Fast Pitch Lunch connecting entrepreneurs with potential investors and mentors; and a gala awards banquet where industry leaders will announce winners of the 2018 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation (see finalists on page 36 panel). Recruiters from more than 30 companies are expected at the SPIE Career Centre Job Fair (30-31 January).
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