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Blog: Photon Focus
Senior editor John Wallace discusses the
research being done on photovoltaic solar power
generation—and what impediments we need to
overcome to help bring it to fruition.
Keep coming back to our blog for
more hot topics, cool commentary,
and other events-related musings!
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Technical Digests dig into technology topics
Laser Focus World offers
free downloadable
technical digests that
provide an in-depth
resource on photonics
and optoelectronics topics
such as laser-induced-
breakdown spectroscopy
(LIBS) and
high-power and
high-energy thin-film antireflection coatings for laser optics.
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Webcasts let you make new
discoveries from your desktop
Whether you are looking to get an overview of mid-infrared
optical technology and its opportunities or learn
the fundamentals of fiber optic sensors, we’ve got
webcasts aplenty to meet your educational needs.
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White papers offer detailed tech
specs on many products
Our library of technical white papers delves into performance
attributes of several optics and photonics products
available on the market, including high-power, fiber-coupled diode lasers, miniature spectrometers,
and optical bandpass filters, to name a few.
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Slide shows engage
with cool topics
Whether they are three-point kinematic mounts
or another form such as flexure or gimbal
mounts, tip/tilt mounts are an essential part of
many optical setups. In this Slide
Show, senior editor John Wallace
highlights some of the many tip/
tilt optical mounts available today.
http://bit.ly/1v1lfNO
Focus on Lasers & Sources
Laser Focus World covers the design and
applications of all types of lasers, amplifiers,
and other advanced sources like light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Here are two of
our most popular articles on this topic.
Wafer-level LED chip emits 157 W of
optical power
A team of Chinese researchers has created a
wafer-level LED chip that produces 157 W of
blue light from an emitting region approximately
30 mm in diameter. What’s more,
the group expects that much
larger chips developed over the
next decade will lead to light
outputs in the tens of kilowatts.
http://bit.ly/1q1UpcK
Blue direct-diode laser emits 50 W
Researchers in Japan have created a blue-
emitting direct-diode laser that focuses light
from 30 individual 450-nm-emitting laser diodes
into an optical fiber with a 100-μm-
diameter core; the direct-diode laser
produces 50 W of optical power at
a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.2.
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