The Photonics Spotlight Blog
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RP Photonics Consulting GmbH provides technical consultancy and simulation & design software on a wide range of topics in photonics, in particular concerning lasers, laser amplifiers, nonlinear optics and fiber optics. The Photonics Spotlight presents interesting materials and thoughts in the area of photonics.
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
Details of launching light into a step-index multimode fiber are discussed and demonstrated with various numerical simulations. Various surprising findings can be explained well ..read more
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
The RP Photonics Encyclopedia covers the field of laser material processing quite comprehensively and carefully. For example, it explains underlying physical principles and resulting limitations ..read more
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
The number of articles in the RP Photonics Encyclopedia has reached 1000. It is time for some remarks on quantity and quality, and on the coverage of the whole area of photonics. The underlying business model is also explained ..read more
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
For various reasons, it would actually be more natural and convenient to specify optical frequencies rather than optical wavelengths, e.g. of lasers. However, it is understandable why in the past it became common to specify wavelengths. It is probably too late to change this convention. At least, one should be aware of the difference between vacuum wavelengths and wavelength in air ..read more
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
Luminance is an interesting term in optics, which is worth some thoughts. Here, it is discussed to which extent luminance is a measure for perceived brightness of light sources or objects, and how the term is related to some others ..read more
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
Here, it is summarized what improvements have been implemented on the RP Photonics website in the year 2020. Apart from the addition of further content, a lot of technical features have been improved with benefits in terms of mobile usability, page speed, and security ..read more
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
When considering laser pulses rather than continuous-wave radiation, various additional aspects in the context of beam radius and beam quality come into play. In some lasers, these quantities vary during the pulse duration, and one that needs to think about how exactly to define, measure and compute these quantities ..read more
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
RP Photonics has started to offer another blog, distributed as a newsletter: the RP Photonics Marketing News. Marketing-related information will now be found there, while the Photonics Spotlight will focus on scientific and technical matters ..read more
The Photonics Spotlight Blog
1y ago
More photonics companies than ever have started digital marketing with RP Photonics in recent months. Currently, that can be done with a discount due to the coronavirus crisis, although the value of that advertising has by no means been diminished ..read more