Photonics West 2015- Prism Award Winners

Wednesday 11 February

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Gala night for 'Oscar of photonics'

Nine new products were named winners of the 2015 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation -- an honor dubbed by one presenter as the "Oscar of photonics" -- during a gala banquet Wednesday evening. Industry luminaries announced awards to:

• Additive Manufacturing: LUXeXcel
• Biomedical Instrumentation: BacterioScan
• Detectors and Sensors: Hamamatsu
• Imaging and Cameras: Seek Thermal and Raytheon
• Industrial Lasers: IPG Photonics
• Materials and Coatings: Inrad Optics
• Optics and Optical Components: Intel, Corning, and US Conec
• Other Metrology Instrumentation: WITec and Tescan Orsay
• Scientific Lasers: Fianium.

Read more in the SPIE press release.

Meeting the Startup Challenge

Blood-vessel-detecting technology for surgeons, a microphone that detects sound with no moving parts, and a plasmonic film that replaces a lab-bench worth of equipment with a robust, portable detector were selected as the top  projects in the 2015 SPIE Startup Challenge (above, winners, sponsors, and judges after the pitches).

First-place winner Jonathan Gunn of Briteseed LLC pitched SafeSnips, a blood-vessel-detecting technology that gives surgeons critical information to make more confident decisions in the operating room. A video of the winning pitch is online.

Taking second place, Balthasar Fischer of XARION Laser Acoustics pitched the Membrane-free Optical Microphone. The device requires neither a membrane nor any other moving component to convert sound into electrical voltage, exploiting the fact that sound can change the speed of light.

In third place, Jeffrey Crosby of Picoyune pitched a chemical sensing platform whose patented plasmonic film is highly sensitive to mercury and can be coupled with existing gas monitors. The intended first customers are coal-fired power plants that, by law, need to carefully monitor their output of mercury.

Read more in the SPIE press release.

SPIE Photonics West 2015

The Photonics West 2015 Exhibition

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SPIE Photonics West, 10 - 12 February 2015. Photonics West is the premier photonics and laser event. With more than 1,250 companies, this exhibition continues to be the flagship event to find the latest products, tools, and applications for your research or business needs.

2015 Exhibition Guide (65 MB PDF) 2015 Industry Events Program (3 MB PDF)

Register today for TWO free exhibitions and a variety of free Industry Events

Exhibition Dates
Tuesday 10 February	10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Wednesday 11 February	10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Thursday 12 February	10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Featured technologies:
•	Lasers and other light sources
•	Laser accessories, laser systems
•	Cameras and CCD components
•	Fiber optic components, equipment, systems
•	Optical components
•	Communication
•	Optical detectors
•	High speed imaging and sensing
•	Optical materials and substrates
•	IR sources and detectors
•	Electronic imaging components
•	Optical coatings
•	Lenses and filters
•	Positions and mounts
•	Metrology
•	See the latest Product Announcements from exhibitors

Meet leaders from top companies:
•	Agilent Technologies	•	Coherent
•	TRUMPF	•	JDSU
•	Hamamatsu	•	Thorlabs
•	HORIBA	•	JENOPTIK
•	Ocean Optics	•	L-3 Communications
•	NTT	•	PI
•	SCHOTT	•	Umicore

Attend BIOS EXPO (before Photonics West)    learn more
Saturday 7 February	12:00 noon to 5:00 pm
Sunday 8 February	10:00 am to 5:00 pm

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PRISM Awards at Photonics West 2015
In February 2015, the best photonics products on the market will be recognized at a gala awards banquet. The event has become one of the largest gatherings of CEOs and VIPs in the photonics industry. Learn more

Email innovation@spie.org for information.

SPIE Photonics West - where business happens.

Advanced Photonixs announces new product line at SPIE Photonics West 2015

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SPIE Photonics West 10 - 12-February 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Advanced Photonix Inc.

BOOTH NUMBER: 401  Add to My Schedule View Floor Plan

Address Advanced Photonix Inc. 1240 Avenida Acaso Camarillo, CA United States Website www.advancedphotonix.com  Email Request Information

Company Description

Featured Product: Tunable multispectral LED light source; Custom photodetector assemblies

Advanced Photonix, Inc. (NYSE Amex: API) is a leading supplier of opto-electronic solutions and instrumentation to a global OEM customer base. Our solutions range from Avalanche Photo Diodes (APD) to PIN configurations and silicon Large Area Avalanche Photodiode (LAAPD), PIN photodiodes, tunable LED illumination systems and FILTRODE® detectors.

Product Announcements

22 January 2015 Tunable Multispectral Light Sources

Advanced Photonix is introducing Digital Tunable Multispectral Light sources. Our advanced technology allows precise real-time or preset control of up to 32 channels of LED-based illumination in wavelengths from the UV to the IR. Configurable in both free-space and fiber optic output, API's light sources can precisely create virtually any spectra, including the industry-standard D65 "white". The devices can be controlled via custom software from any computer. Options also include real-time spectral feedback via an integrated spectrometer. Come visit API at booth #401 to see how we can help you with your illumination requirements!

Ondax to showcase terahertz Raman spectroscopy system at SPIE BiOS and SPIE Photonics West 2015

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THz-Raman spectroscopy systems combine chemical detection and structural analysis for forensic and scientific analyses. The newest system in the line is said to significantly reduce autofluorescence without the need for InGaAs detectors that are typically required to measure fluorescent materials. Using a 976 nm excitation source, the system delivers clear low-frequency Stokes and anti-Stokes spectral analysis over a range of ± 5–500 cm^-1 when used with conventional Si detector-based spectrographs.

AdValue Photonics to showcase 2 µm pulsed fiber laser at SPIE BiOS and SPIE Photonics West

01/22/2014

By Lee Dubay
Associate Editor

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This 2 µm pulsed fiber laser delivers peak power up to 10 kW and average power up to 10 W. Other characteristics include pulse width down to 20 ns and pulse energy up to 500 µJ, and applications include materials processing, laser surgery, mid-infrared generation, light detection and ranging (lidar), and scientific research.

SPIE BiOS/SPIE Photonics West booth numbers: 8533 (SPIE BiOS), 5010 (SPIE Photonics West).

To Learn More:

Contact: AdValue Photonics
Headquarters: Tucson, AZ
Product: 2 µm pulsed fiber laser
Key Features: Peak power up to 10 kW and average power up to 10 W

Photonics West-Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Sub-Millimeter-Wave Technology and Applications VII

		1 - 6 February 2014 The Moscone Center San Francisco, California United States

Conference OE106

Part of program track on Optoelectronic Materials and Devices

This conference is no longer accepting submissions.

Late submissions may be considered subject to chair approval. For more information, please contact SPIE

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Laurence P. Sadwick, InnoSys, Inc. (United States); Créidhe M. O'Sullivan, National Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth (Ireland)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Robert H. Giles, Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell (United States); R. Jennifer Hwu, InnoSys, Inc. (United States); J. Anthony Murphy, National Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth (Ireland); Zachary D. Taylor, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States); Michael C. Wanke, Sandia National Labs. (United States); Tianxin Yang, Tianjin Univ. (China); Jiangfeng Zhou, Univ. of Southern Florida (United States)

This conference brings together researchers and engineers from academia, industry, and government laboratories to explore and present work in the frequency range covering approximately 1 GHz (300 mm) to 3 THz (100 μm). Papers on RF and millimeter technology including advances in wireless communications, radar, mm-wave photonics, metamaterials, antennas, phased array radar, modulation, security, monitoring, detection, imaging are encouraged. Papers in photonic-related fields including, but not limited to, radio over fiber (RoF) RF photonics including photonic generation of microwave signals, photonic processing of microwave signals, and photonic distribution of microwave signals and semiconductor (including Si, SiC, SOI, GaAs, GaN, InP, SiGe, diamond, graphene and other materials) RF, mm-wave and terahertz devices and related applications are also encouraged. Terahertz (THz) technology deals with the generation and utilization of electromagnetic energy covering what is also known as the sub-millimeter wave region of the spectrum. In this region, which lies between the millimeter wave and far infrared spectral regions, materials exhibit properties that can be exploited to advantage for use over a broad range of important technologies and applications. 

This conference includes low- to high-power sources, detectors, systems, both photonic and electronic including both optical and electronic modulated sources, detectors, and systems. At THz frequencies, the primary difficulty encountered by scientists and engineers working in this field is the lack of convenient and affordable sources and detectors of terahertz radiation, but this difficulty is gradually changing as new sources and improved detectors are being developed and as the technology continues to mature and broaden. The purpose of this conference is to gather scientists and engineers from a diverse set of disciplines, who are interested in either learning more about terahertz and sub-millimeter and millimeter wave and RF technology, or who are contributing to the field through their own research, development, or manufacturing activities. 

Disciplines utilizing terahertz technology include physical chemistry (certain molecules or molecular segments exhibit strong resonances in the 10 cm^-1 to 100 cm^-1 spectral region), military, and homeland security (terahertz radiation can penetrate clothing and packing materials but is reflected by metals and other materials), biomedical technology (tissue exhibits reflection and absorption properties that change dramatically with tissue characteristics), medical and dental, secure short-distance wireless communications (atmospheric water content prevents terahertz radiation from traveling very far), astronomy (the cold background of the universe exhibits a peak in this spectral region), space communications (where the terahertz region is wide open for use) and other disciplines where new, yet-to-be-discovered applications will undoubtedly come forth. Since the low energy associated with terahertz radiation is expected to be no more harmful than infrared or microwave radiation, safety issues are not expected to limit the use of terahertz radiation at low-power levels. 

Papers on power supplies and electronic power conditioners and associated power protection systems including energy-efficient power supplies are also encouraged. 

Papers are solicited in the following and related areas: 

Terahertz sources

• solid-state sources, electron-beam sources, vacuum electronics sources, frequency mixers, frequency multipliers, parametric oscillators, hybrids, graphene, FET and HEMT sources, gas lasers, quantum cascade lasers and related sources, p-germanium sources, photoconductive switches, resonant tunneling diodes, backward wave oscillators, new novel devices.

RF, sub-millimeter-wave and millimeter-wave sources

• power sources of all types in the range of 1 GHz to 300 GHz and 300 GHz and higher (i.e., from S-band to the higher end of the millimeter-wave frequencies and all of the sub-millimeter-wave frequency region).

Detectors

• bolometers and other thermal detectors, Schottky and other mixers, thermopiles, quantum devices, antenna integrated detectors, heterodyne detection techniques, hybrid detection, direct detection techniques. Theoretical modeling
• modeling of optical components, optical systems, imaging systems, wave propagation, modes, Gaussian beam characteristics, couplers, antennas, performance limitations, software designs.

Terahertz, RF, millimeter-wave, and sub-millimeter-wave passive components

• optics, lenses, gratings, waveguides, photonic crystal structures and metamaterials, couplers, wire guides, other components.

Spectroscopy

• terahertz and/or sub-millimeter spectroscopy, DNA segment identification, cell abnormalities, cancer identification and screening, imaging, medical and dental detection
• identification of biological and chemical detection and fingerprinting
• scalar and vector network analysis at sub-millimeter and terahertz frequencies
• measurement techniques at sub-millimeter, millimeter, and terahertz frequencies
• identification of organic and inorganic compounds using terahertz and/or sub-millimeter wave spectroscopy
• high-speed and/or high-resolution spectroscopic techniques, methods, approaches
• novel approaches, systems, designs, techniques, reflection, sensitivity, applications.

Biomedical applications

• DNA identification, burn analysis, tissue abnormality identification, pharmaceutical, dentistry, medical, clinical, commercial applications
• cancer, burn, and/or water content detection; high sensitivity, high contrast, etc.

Communications and instrumentation

• terahertz, RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave communications, media characteristics, wireless communications, inspection systems, detection systems, screening systems.

Astronomy and space

• imaging techniques, ultra-sensitive detection, applications, programs.

Innovations

• new or novel terahertz, RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter concepts, systems, applications.

New developments in THz, RF, millimeter-waves, and sub-millimeter waves

• new or novel developments in THz or sub-millimeter waves including teaching, instruction, course offerings, simulations, conceptional and/or experimental procedures, implementations, concepts, etc.

Enhancements, improvements and advances in RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter wave generation, modulation and detection

• linear and nonlinear optical materials and devices
• organic and inorganic source and modulator materials and devices
• RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave materials, devices and fabrication processes
• RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave integrated photonic devices
• RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave active and passive imaging systems
• RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave and photonic integration process development
• RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave performance characterization
• phased array and single element photonically driven antennas
• phased array and single element antennas, systems, concepts, approaches
• RF, millimeter, sub-millimeter-wave and microwave links
• low Vp and wide bandwidth modulators
• direct-driven millimeter-wave lasers and amplifiers
• millimeter-wave, sub-millimeter and THz photonic crystal devices and applications
• RF, millimeter-wave, sub-millimeter-wave and THz photonic up- and down-converters
• photonic phase locked loops
• stabilized photonic RF, millimeter-wave, sub-millimeter-wave and THz sources
• RF, millimeter-wave, sub-millimeter-wave photonic communication and sensing systems
• RF, millimeter-wave, sub-millimeter-wave, and THz MMICs
• RF, millimeter-wave, sub-millimeter-wave, and THz systems
• RF, millimeter-wave, sub-millimeter-wave, high power solid-state and electronic vacuum devices.

High power sources, modules, and systems

• THz, RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave high power sources
• THz, RF, millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave modules
• power supplies and support circuits, electronics, optoelectronics, systems.

Materials for GHz and THz devices

• silicon (Si)-based
• silicon carbide (SiC)-based
• silicon on insulator (SOI)-based
• gallium arsenide (GaAs)-based
• gallium nitride (GaN)-based
• indium phosphide (InP)-based
• silicon germanium (SiGe)-based
• diamond-based
• graphene-based.

Power supplies and electronic power conditioners

• high-power power supplies
• low- and ultra-low-power power supplies
• low-noise power supplies
• high- and ultra-efficient power supplies
• associated power protection systems
• energy-efficient power supplies
• novel designs and architectures
• specialized power electronics
• portable power supplies
• power supplies tailored for photonics and/or RF, mm-wave and/or THz applications.

2011 Prism Award Finalists Are Announced

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Industry leaders will honor developers of innovative new products at Photonics West
Finalists have been named in nine categories for the 2011 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, sponsored by SPIE and Photonics Media.
Winners will be announced by industry leaders at a gala ceremony on 25 January during SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco. Presenters for the 2011 awards are being confirmed. Past awards have been presented by industry leaders such as Michael Mertin, CEO of JENOPTIK; Robert Edmund, CEO and Chairman of Edmund Optics; Marita Paasch, VP of SCHOTT Advanced Optics; and Milton Chang, Managing Director of the high-tech venture fund Incubic.
The Prism Awards - termed the "Photonics Oscar" by the industry - recognizes photonic products that break with conventional ideas, solve problems, and improve life through the generation and harnessing of light. Finalists and winners are chosen by an independent panel of industry experts.
"The quality and competition among this year's entries was even keener than in past years. More companies submitted applications than ever before. The strength of applications from core companies in our industry along with the impressive innovations bubbling up from smaller companies really demonstrate the vitality of the photonics industry," said SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs.
"We are very pleased to have this means of bringing visibility and recognition to industry colleagues," Arthurs added. "SPIE and Photonics Media extend our thanks to all who took the time to apply, and also to the judges, who are themselves outstanding contributors to photonics research and technology development. The Prism Awards have truly become a celebration of and for our entire industry."
Seventeen of the finalists will exhibit at the Photonics West exhibition at the Moscone Center in San Francisco 25-27 January. Booth numbers of finalists and their product entries are noted in the alphabetical listing below.
For more information on the awards program, visit www.photonicsprismaward.com.
Defense and Security

• Headwall Photonics Inc.: Hyperspec RECON Handheld Sensor (Booth 903)
• Physical Optics Corporation: Mobile ELISA-based Pathogen Detection
• Zomega Terahertz Corporation: micro-Z (Booth 2511)

Detectors, Sensing, Imaging, and Cameras

• CyberOptics Semiconductor: WaferSense Airborne Particle Sensor
• MERMEC: T-Sight 5000
• Vieworks Co., Ltd.: VN Series Camera Link Camera

Green Photonics and Sustainable Energy

• Cogenra Solar: Solar Cogeneration Solution
• nanoplus: DFB laser at 3µm (Booth 2523)
• Opalux Inc.: P-ink Displays

Industrial Lasers

• Amplitude Systemes: Satsuma HE (Booth 1431)
• Spectra-Physics: Mosaic 532-11 Laser (Booth 1301)
• Xiton Photonics Gmbh: IMPRESS 213 (Booth 1500)

Life Sciences and Biophotonics

• Coherent: OBIS (Booth 1015)
• 89 North: Heliophor (Booth 407)
• Rebellion Photonics, Inc.: The ARROW Hyperspectral Camera

Optics and Optical Components

• Haas Laser Technologies, Inc.: Thermal Lensing Compensation Objective (Booth 5502)
• Optotune AG: Laser Speckle Reducer (Booth 5501)
• PixelOptics Inc.: emPower!

Other Light Sources

• Intematix: ChromaLit (Booth 506)
• OEwaves: Ultra-Narrow Linewidth Laser (Booth 4632)
• Philips Lumileds: Luxeon A

Scientific Lasers

• KMLabs: Wyvern-X
• Newport Corporation Spectra-Physics: InSight DeepSee (Booth 1301)
• Pd-LD Inc.: LabSource- VBG stabilized dual-laser source (Booth 828)

Test, Measurement, Metrology

• KLA-Tencor: FabVision Solar (Booth 2100)
• nanoplus: DFB laser at 3µm (Booth 2523)
• WITec GmbH: True Surface Microsopy
• Zygo Corporation: DynaFiz (Booth 1230)

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