PhotonicsViewsPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202470406
Jérémy Picot-Clémente
{"title":"“Be prepared to be humbled, to listen, and learn a lot”","authors":"Jérémy Picot-Clémente","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202470406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202470406","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The head of the German producer of photonics packaging and integration technology shares his insights with EPIC's photonics technologies program manager.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 4","pages":"19-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202470406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123090","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400027
Sagi Dolberg
{"title":"The importance of image quality in AI visual inspection systems","authors":"Sagi Dolberg","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The use of AI for visual inspection is currently making great strides in sectors like automotive, metals and machinery manufacturing. However, those investing in the technology not only expect a system that will be superior to manual inspection, but an error rate close to zero in defect detection. Let us look at the importance of image quality and why the variability in the production environment is the single greatest challenge that AI engineers must face.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 4","pages":"31-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123198","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202470408
Luca Kuhlmann, André Lamott, Armin Thomsen, Heiko Mühlenfeld-Keßler, Anja Knigge
{"title":"AdheScan – adhesive failure surface inspection system","authors":"Luca Kuhlmann, André Lamott, Armin Thomsen, Heiko Mühlenfeld-Keßler, Anja Knigge","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202470408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202470408","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adhesive bonding is an established joining technique with many applications in for example aerospace, lightweight construction, and the automotive industry. It places particularly high demands on materials, processes, and quality assurance, requiring extensive development and qualification procedures. Many process samples generated for testing are still evaluated manually by experts. The AdheScan provides a quantifiable, simplified and more accurate evaluation of adhesive failure surfaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 4","pages":"34-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202470408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123200","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400028
Markus Hofele, Matthias Buser
{"title":"Increasing productivity by combining laser processes","authors":"Markus Hofele, Matthias Buser","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Increasing the material ablation rate in micromachining of precise geometries by ultrashort-pulsed laser treatment with high average power causes a decrease of achievable surface quality due to heat accumulation. To overcome this drawback, combined laser processes offer a significant increase of the overall productivity by the implementation of laser cleaning and polishing processes that require negligible additional processing time, but allow material removal to be performed with maximum process efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 4","pages":"48-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123201","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 : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202470411
{"title":"Tracking greenhouse gases with a laser","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202470411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202470411","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Faced with advancing climate change, we drastically need to monitor and understand the various sources and sinks of greenhouse gases worldwide in real time. One approach to accomplishing this is to regulate and monitor man-made methane emissions. Laser systems as developed by researchers at Fraunhofer ILT offer ways to do exactly that. At the heart of lidar instruments, they can precisely determine greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with high spatial and temporal resolution, even from great distances, and do so worldwide.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 4","pages":"53-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202470411","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123226","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 : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400024
Nataliya Deyneka Dupriez, Samuel Adolph
{"title":"OCT for automated conventional welding in the automotive industry","authors":"Nataliya Deyneka Dupriez, Samuel Adolph","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400024","DOIUrl":"10.1002/phvs.202400024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Similar to laser welding, optical coherence tomography (OCT) simplifies the operation of robot-guided, automated GMA welding by offering seam tracking capabilities thanks to its industry-approved, standardized functions and fieldbus communication. Furthermore, OCT can monitor the quality of weld seam online by measuring the seam topography during GMA welding, eliminating the need for time-consuming and costly off-line weld inspection.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 4","pages":"39-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141340250","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 : 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400015
Lea Kroth, René Geiger, Sebastian-Paul Kopp, Katja Tangermann-Gerk
{"title":"Flexible laser plastic welding as an addition to AM","authors":"Lea Kroth, René Geiger, Sebastian-Paul Kopp, Katja Tangermann-Gerk","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Individualization, shorter product cycles and prototyping are leading to increased use of additive manufacturing in industry. A reliable and versatile process like laser plastic welding is needed to join parts with other additively manufactured or injection molded parts.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 4","pages":"44-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123148","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 : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202400014
Erez Tepper, Haim Suchowski
{"title":"Creating advanced photonics AI assistants","authors":"Erez Tepper, Haim Suchowski","doi":"10.1002/phvs.202400014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/phvs.202400014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The AI assistants that have emerged in the past couple of years open up new domains of knowledge, allowing us to be educated and guided in many new and versatile domains. However, for domain experts such as optical designers, scientists, and photonics engineers, they often have limitations in their information accuracy and scope. 3DOptix has developed a dynamic approach to overcome these limitations that enables the creation of a proficient optical design copilot. This copilot assists experts in every step of the design process, including conducting precise calculations, searching for components, and simulating actions.</p>","PeriodicalId":101021,"journal":{"name":"PhotonicsViews","volume":"21 4","pages":"27-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/phvs.202400014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123251","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}