Technical Articles

Technical Articles

Optical Mounts: Ignore Them at Your Peril - Photonics Spectra

Optomechanical mounts may seem like insignificant design elements, but they can make or break a photonic application.

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Tunable Diode Lasers - Lasers & Optronics

Tunable diode lasers are increasing their market penetration via rapid evolution with a new generation of products every year or so.

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UHV Environments Require More From Motion Systems - Laser Focus World

As the number of applications for ultrahigh-vacuum (UHV) environments increases, motion systems must be modified to manipulate optics, particle beams, and measurement devices inside …

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Automated Alignment Keeps Z Machine on Target - Laser Focus World

Computer-controlled motorized mirror mounts enable rapid realignment of beam-steering optics between discharges at Sandia National Labs’ Z machine.

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Demand for High-Speed Detectors Drives Research - Laser Focus World

Resonant-cavity enhanced detectors improve detection and wavelength selectivity, high-power traveling-wave detectors increase dynamic range of analog fiber links.

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Innovative Photoreceivers Simplify Measurements - Laser Focus World

Applications for photodiodes combined with novel circuitry range from studies of meteor deposited metals In the upper atmosphere to calcium Ions In biological cells.