PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202500006
Ivan Nikitskiy
{"title":"Smart photonic sensors","authors":"Ivan Nikitskiy","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202500006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202500006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A new EU initiative of 6.1 million euros, Retina is a four-year project aiming to combine advanced spectral imagers and photonic chip-based lidar sensors into versatile multimodal perception systems to revolutionize the healthcare, automotive, and agriculture sectors. This article explores Retina's key objectives, technological developments, and applications while also addressing ongoing challenges and potential directions for future development.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"22 1","pages":"59-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202500006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202500001
Ingomar Kelbassa, Frank Beckmann, Dirk Herzog, Katharina Bartsch, Mirco Jankowiak, Julian Ulrich Weber, Philipp Kohlwes, Philipp Imgrund, Vishnuu Jothi Prakash, Matthias Brück
{"title":"Industrialization of additive manufacturing","authors":"Ingomar Kelbassa, Frank Beckmann, Dirk Herzog, Katharina Bartsch, Mirco Jankowiak, Julian Ulrich Weber, Philipp Kohlwes, Philipp Imgrund, Vishnuu Jothi Prakash, Matthias Brück","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202500001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202500001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Our world is constantly facing a wide variety of social challenges – currently, issues such as climate change, security, demographic change, and resource conservation are of significant importance and show an acute need for action. Disruptive technologies, among other things, are needed to tackle such problems. Additive manufacturing (AM) is regarded as the ‘game changer / paradigm shift’ technology for the digital, automated production of the future – as the key enabler of ‘Production 2.0’.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"22 1","pages":"56-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202500001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-11-03DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400035
Henrike Schlutow, Ulrike Fuchs, Claudia Reinlein
{"title":"Ultraviolet line structuring of large solar wafers","authors":"Henrike Schlutow, Ulrike Fuchs, Claudia Reinlein","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ultrashort-pulsed lasers are ideal for material processing by welding, marking, and cutting. Scanning systems are crucial for large substrates. We introduce a novel UV line structuring method using deformable mirror technology and freeform optics. This approach aims to improve processing times on large substrates, especially for M12 solar wafer processing. By using a freeform lens and a Zwobbel deformable mirror, we achieve extended processing fields and high scan frequencies. The paper explores optical designs, their robust optomechanical implementation for prototyping, and setup characterization.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 5","pages":"57-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142573957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-11-03DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202470515
{"title":"PARMS coating technology for UV to IR laser applications","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202470515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202470515","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reactive sputtering using a medium frequency (MF) dual magnetron source is an advanced technique widely employed in various thin film deposition applications. For the production of high-quality optical filters based on oxides with low losses, it is crucial to exclude any form of arcing, including both strong arcs and microarcs. These requirements are solved by plasmaassisted reactive magnetron sputtering (PARMS), which also provides a high deposition rate contributing to the economically efficient production of high-end optical filters.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 5","pages":"56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202470515","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142574018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-11-03DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400038
Christian Rochholz, Andreas Meudtner
{"title":"SiC high-tech ceramics — a comparison of laser processes","authors":"Christian Rochholz, Andreas Meudtner","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Extensive R&D applied various laser sources — from nanosecond VIS-wavelength to femtosecond IR and water-jet guided lasers — to enhance the quality and efficiency of laser structuring, fine cutting, and drilling of silicon carbide. Tests focused on surface roughness, cutting line precision, and high ablation rates. Challenges due to diverse material compositions, like diamond layers, required combined methods to develop viable approaches. To meet economic constraints, mechanical grinding was integrated with recurring laser processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 5","pages":"48-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142573956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}