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By GAIL OVERTON, ALLEN NOGEE, and CONARD HOLTON Lasers forge 21st century innovations. Ultrafast Lasers By HUBERT AMMANN and ANDREAS OEHLER Picosecond lasers: Achieving maximum processing speed. Photonics Products: Spectrometers By JOHN WALLACE Imaging spectrometers examine the world around us. Fiber Lasers By KEVIN FARLEY, GEORGE OULUNDSEN, and KANISHKA TANKALA Selecting large-mode-area fibers for high-power lasers. Advances in Detectors By ARN ADAMS and ELLIOTT RITTENBERG HOT IR sensors improve IR camera size, weight, and power. Photonic Frontiers: Disk Lasers By JEFF HECHT Higher powers and shorter pulses from thin-disk lasers. Microscopy By MATTHEW S. MULLER and STEPHAN BRIGGS Off-the-shelf components enable a new generation of confocal microscopy. Ultrafast Pulse Characterization By MICHELLE RHODES, SAIDUR RAHAMAN, PAMELA BOWLAN, GÜNTER STEINMEYER, and RICK TREBINO From femtosecond to nanosecond, laser-pulse measurement is all about the single shot. Fiber-optic Sensing By SØREN LØVGREEN Low-noise fiber lasers enable far-reaching optical sensing. Photonics West Preview By BARBARA GOODE, GAIL OVERTON, JOHN WALLACE, and CONARD HOLTON Bigger than ever, SPIE Photonics West 2014 offers technolgies, products, and new opportunities across the spectrum. Software: Optical Design By IFTIKHAR AHMED and ENG HUAT KHOO HMultiphysics model speeds nanophotonic devices simulation. Terahertz Imaging By PATRICK TEKAVEC Terahertz parametric oscillator enables sensitive imaging. | Learn More About the Advertisers in this Issue
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