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.

About Coherent

Coherent empowers market innovators to define the future through breakthrough technologies, from materials to systems. We deliver innovations that resonate with our customers in diversified applications for the industrial, communications, electronics, and instrumentation markets. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, Coherent has research and development, manufacturing, sales, service, and distribution facilities worldwide. For more information, please visit us at www.coherent.com.

Contact

Mark Lourie
Vice President, Corporate Communications
corporate.communications@coherent.com

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