Industrial
Light-enabled products and services are fundamental photonics components ranging from photodetectors and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to semiconductor Laser Diodes. Photonics affect almost every facet of modern life, from weather and climate monitoring to the fabrication of new automobiles and semiconductor equipment, and from advanced agriculture to water purification
Manufacturing automation
Proximity sensing
LiDAR
Fog and rain-sensing
Fire safety
Flame detection and characterization
Water purification
Semiconductor process equipment
Bar code scanners
Environmental Monitoring
Currency validation and counters
Encoders (precision motion control systems)
Gaming machines
Construction laser leveling
Pill, coin, and seed counters
Laser monitoring
Test & Measurement
Today's optical sensors and laser-based test and measurement systems offer faster, more accurate results. They provide new techniques for more efficient manufacturing in optical communication and photonics integrated circuits (PICs), among many others. The photonics components used in a large variety of test and measurement equipment:
OTDR
Electro-Optic equipment
Spectroradiometers
Test equipment to measure laser light sources
Spectrometers and birefringence and polarimetry systems