Xenon lamp
Mercury xenon lamp
Xenon fash lamp
1%
2%
3%
1%
560
570
580
590
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32 COVER STORY
While laser manufacturers may be happy with
their recent mid-single-digit growth sales performance, there is more
cause for celebration. Lasers, once an inside secret, literally surround us
in our everyday lives and
are finally being recognized globally and politically. Turn to page 32 for
our full laser market review and forecast! ( Cover
illustration by Chris Hipp)
32 Laser Marketplace 2015
Lasers surround us in
the Year of Light
Gail Overton, David A. Belforte, Allen Nogee,
and Conard Holton
52 Photonics West Preview
SPIE Photonics West 2015
excites with neurology, 3D
printing, and silicon photonics
Gail Overton, John Wallace, and Barbara Goode
65 Photonic Frontiers: Optics
Looking back/Looking
forward: A transformation
of optical components
Jeff Hecht
74 Photonics Products: High-Power
Laser-Diode Arrays
Diode arrays are compact,
high-power light dynamos
John Wallace
81 Ultraviolet LEDs
UVC LEDs enable cost-effective spectroscopic
instruments
Hari Venugopalan
87 Optical Design
Advanced thin-film software
techniques benefit design-to-fabrication workflow
Tatiana Amotchkina, Michael
Trubetskov, Alexander Tikhonravov,
and Jennifer Kruschwitz
91 Fiber for Remote Sensing
Downhole sensing
applications enhanced by
specialty optical fibers
George Oulundsen, Daniel Hennessey,
and Mike Conroy
96 Components for Fiber Optics
Advanced manufacturing
techniques benefit fiber-optic components
Brad Hendrix and Mike Harju
100 Lasers for Biophotonics
Lasers meet changing
demands of biomedical
applications
Marco Arrigoni, Nigel Gallaher,
Dan Callen, Darryl McCoy, Volker Pfeufer,
and Matthias Schulze
105 Optical Filters
Optical filter performance
keeps improving—
measurement techniques
must keep pace
Amber Czajkowski and Stephan Briggs
110 Resonators
Moving photonics
cause singular
Fabry–Perot resonance
Zubin Jacob
Coming in
February
The February 2015 issue
highlights two important
areas of Lasers & Sources:
•;Contributing editor Jeff
Hecht continues his
Looking Back and Forward
series on the key photonics
technologies by describing
the history and future of
solid-state lasers.
•;An article introduces a
new photovoltaic cell
that enables UAVs to be
powered by laser light.
We also look at Optics and
Imaging & Detectors with
articles on:
•;a new hyperspectral
imaging system
•;optical shutter
performance designed for
life science applications
Further articles discuss:
•;optical coating metrology
•;3D optical inspection
•;photonics-modeling
software
