Coherent to Showcase a Broad Portfolio of Product and Technology Innovations at Photonics West and BiOS Expo 2024

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in materials, networking, and lasers, announced today that it will exhibit industry-leading products and capabilities at SPIE Photonics West, Jan. 30-Feb. 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Booth #4805 (Hall F), and at BiOS Expo Jan. 27-28, part of Photonics West, in Booth #8630 (Hall D). Coherent will showcase its broad portfolio of products and technology innovations that are enabling a wide range of applications in industrial, communications, electronics, and instrumentation markets. Coherent thought leaders will present at industry events, workshops, and technical sessions.

PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS

FOR THE ELECTRONICS MARKET:

• Dot projector module for depth sensing: This module enables customers to design cameras that capture an entire scene at a broad angle and extended depth range even in bright outdoor lighting conditions, all while maintaining low power consumption.
• VCSEL-based illumination module platform: This platform uses eight 940 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) modules that allow selectively addressable horizontal slices of the field of illumination (FOI). A demonstrator is available to explore multiple VCSEL module positioning configurations and scanning algorithms for various depth sensing modalities and types of scenery.

FOR THE INSTRUMENTATION MARKET:

• OBIS 640 XT red laser module: This module matches the high output power, low noise, beam quality, and compact size of Coherent’s existing portfolio of blue and green laser modules, which as a complete set enable high-performance super-resolution microscopy (SRM) systems.

FOR THE COMMUNICATIONS MARKET:

• WaveShaper 1000A, 4000A and 500B: These test and measurement instruments, which can generate arbitrary filter shapes in attenuation and phase, are now available over a wider wavelength range extending into the U- and Super C-bands.

FOR THE INDUSTRIAL MARKET:

• 532 nm HyperRapid NXT industrial picosecond laser: This laser, with its 100 W average output power, is ideal for ultraprecision manufacturing of thin-film solar cells. Other applications for this laser include structuring of battery foils and dicing of silicon wafers.
• Infrared wire-grid polarizers (WGPs): This family of infrared polarizers operate in the MWIR over 3-5 µm and the LWIR over 7-14 µm, for laser-based atmospheric remote sensing applications. They are based on meta-optics wire technology that achieves a contrast ratio of an order of magnitude greater than the highest-performing comparable products in the industry.

PRODUCT DEMONSTRATION

Test and Measurement: WaveShaper 4000A/U-Band and WaveAnalyzer 400A (Booth #4805)
Coherent will demonstrate arbitrary optical filtering using the newly introduced WaveShaper 4000A/U-Band in combination with a WaveAnalyzer 400A High-Resolution Optical Spectrum Analyzer. With its broad wavelength coverage, the new WaveShaper 4000A/U-Band supports research and development activities in next-generation optical networks.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Lasers, Optics, and Thermoelectrics to Advance Life Science Instrumentation
Presenter: Dr. Kim Netzeband
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2:00 p.m. PT
Demo Area 2 (Hall D)

Photonics Technologies for Datacom: Complement or Compete?
Presenter: Vipul Bhatt
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2:30 p.m. PT
Expo Stage, Hall DE (Exhibit Level)

WORKSHOPS

Solid-State Laser Technology (Course SC752)
Presenter: Dr. Norman Hodgson
Sunday, Jan. 28, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT

Industrial Ultrafast Lasers for Micro-Processing and Applications (Course SC1285)
Presenter: Dr. Norman Hodgson
Monday, Jan. 29, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Optically-pumped semiconductor lasers at Coherent: a historical perspective (Paper 12868-2)
Presenter: Dr. Juan L. Chilla
Wednesday, Jan. 31, 8:45-9:30 a.m. PT
Room 105 (Level 1 South Lobby)

INVITED PAPER

Ultra high-power and highly efficient 9xx nm single emitters with up to 65 W output power under CW operation (Invited Paper 12867-35)
Presenter: Dr. René Todt
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 8:00-8:30 a.m. PT
Room 205 (Level 2 South)

CONFERENCE PAPERS

A single mode fiber connector for multi kW fiber lasers (Paper 12865-26)
Presenter: Conor Byrne
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 5:00-5:20 p.m. PT
Room 203 (Level 2 South)

Mitigating stimulated Brillouin scattering in single-frequency multimode fiber amplifier with diffraction-limited output (Paper 12865-24)
Co-author: Dr. Peyman Ahmadi
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 4:20-4:40 p.m. PT
Room 203 (Level 2 South)

Single frequency operation of an 1110 nm Yb-doped fiber amplifier used for non-linear frequency conversion (Paper 12865-86)
Presenter: Dr. Peyman Ahmadi
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 6:00-8:00 p.m. PT
Room 2003 (Level 2 West)

PM single-mode Er:Yb co-doped fibers for mid-high power laser and amplifiers (Paper 12865-57)
Presenter: Dr. Clémence Jollivet
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2:10-2:30 p.m. PT
Room 203 (Level 2 South)

ADDITIONAL UPCOMING TRADE SHOWS

• SEMICON Korea, Seoul, Korea, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2024
  
• European Automotive Laser Applications (EALA), Bad Nauheim, Germany, Feb. 6-7, 2024
• MD&M West, Anaheim, California, Feb. 6-8, 2024
• InterBattery, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 6-8, 2024

A full list can be found on the events page of our website.