SPIE Photonics West 2014 preview: Cutting edge optics and photonics

This year’s SPIE Photonics West, North America’s leading optics and photonics conference and exhibition, is expected to draw the largest crowd to date, as presenters, exhibitors, and attendees gather to discuss and learn about the latest products, market insights, and technical presentations.

The first part of the event is the BiOS Expo, a biomedical optics and biophotonics exhibition which runs from February 1-2 and will feature approximately 230 exhibitors. Photonics West, which will feature hundreds of new product launches, product demonstrations, and panel sessions, runs from February 4-6, and is expected to draw more than 20,000 attendees and 1,300 exhibitors. Vision-related technologies that are expected to be prominently featured and discussed at the event, according to SPIE, are as follows:

• CCD cameras and components
• Laser systems and accessories
• Fiber optic components, equipment, systems
• Optical components, detectors, materials, substrates, and coatings
• High speed imaging and sensing
• Lenses and filters
• Infrared sources and detectors
• Metrology

Attendees perusing the latest products and innovations being showcased may not be able to see each and every technology presented by the some 1,300 exhibitors, but the following list represents a microcosm of the vision-related technologies that will be showcased at the exhibition:

• Allied Vision Technologies to showcase new infrared camera line at SPIE Photonics West
• CMV12000 CMOS image sensor from CMOSIS acheives 300 fps
• Edmund Optics to showcase telecentric and hypercentric lenses at SPIE Photonics West
• EPIX releases 15 MPixel SILICON VIDEO 15C5 camera
• FluxData to showcase multispectral camera systems at SPIE Photonics West 2014
• Hamamatsu to showcase ORCA-Flash4.0 LT CMOS camera at SPIE Photonics West 2014
• Imaging Solutions Group’s latest USB3 camera features 4 MPixel CMOS image sensor
• Innovations in Optics releases fiber coupled light engine for white LEDs
• IO Industries' 12 MPixel 124 fps camera to be featured at SPIE Photonics West 2014
• Knight Optical launches range of Germanium optical components
• Max Levy Autograph to showcase machine vision grid and targets at SPIE Photonics West 2014
• Nüvü Cameras to showcase new line of EMCCD cameras at SPIE Photonics West
• Photonfocus MV1-D1600 cameras feature e2v CMOS image sensors
• Photron FASTCAM SA-Z reaches 20,000 fps frame rate

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