Focus section: ‘photonics for quantum technology’, cover story: “Laser technology for precise material machining applications: ‘a trenchant edge’ for processing of brittle and hard materials – solid-state picosecond laser technology”.

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Resilient laser cladding with a high-power laser, wire and powder creates efficient, fast, and sustainable coatings for industrial components, developed within project HICLAD. (Source: Fh. IWS / ronaldbonss.com)
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In optical metrology applications, telecentric lenses – in contrast to fixed focal length lenses – have the advantage that they provide accurate measurement results that are independent of the distance to the object being measured.
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The Valo series by Hübner Photonics provides a “market-unique short-pulse performance”, p. 26

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JPT’s advanced laser technology drives manufacturing improvements within the battery industry
see pages 40, 113

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JPT offers laser sources for a wide range of laser material processing like cutting, welding, marking and drilling.
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The new Continuously Tunable Laser CTL 900 from Toptica Photonics is tunable between 880 nm and 950 nm. The long-awaited wavelength range is especially useful for resonantly exciting quantum dots, for spectroscopy or addressing, e.g., rare earth ions or the caesium D1 line.

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“The Future Depends on Optics”: With a broad range of optical components and imaging products, Edmund Optics enables solutions addressing the challenges of our future and adopts its portfolio always reflecting customer and market needs.
(Source: Edmund Optics)

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Smart factories and optimized design and production environments rely on digital tools and cloud-based services
Source: Shutterstock / Gorodenkoff

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The Polarization Analyzer for state of polarization measurement, precise alignment of polarization-maintaining fibers and accurate adjustment of arbitrary states of polarization
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Toptica’s highly modular 19” laser rack systems integrate high-end laser system solutions into an industrial form factor.
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Hübner Photonics is one of the leading manufacturers of high performance lasers for research and analytical instrumentation
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The use of a smart line scan camera system should especially be considered when machine vision has to be integrated in an existing application. A modular system has advantages regarding space requirements and offers greater flexibility compared to an all-in-one solution, p. 50

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Coherence Matters! Making light work in superresolution microscopy with the new Hübner Photonics Cobolt Rogue 640 nm laser, p. 22

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The assembly of complex optical systems requires highest accuracy. Active Alignment helps to reduce cycle times by two orders of magnitude. Learn more on: www.pi.ws/active-alignment

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Fiber coupling to polarization-maintaining fibers and collimation – measured fiber parameters help to chose the best coupling and collimation optics, p. 32
(Source: Schäfter+Kirchhoff)

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One of the two dominating options of pre-assembled Fast Axis Collimators (FACs) is FACs on bottom tabs. Bottom tabs provide advantages such as better ther-mal conductivity between the FAC and the mechanical holder as well as a more mechanically robust design. (Source: Fisba)

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Fisba READYBeam – a simple, ultra-compact and powerful laser source. It dramatically reduces the footprint, development time and integration risk of multiple wavelength sources for Industrial and Diagnostic applications.
(Source: Fisba)

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