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Countless Opportunities in Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing, also known as 3D Printing, is an innovation grounded in photonics. It is a process for making a physical object from a 3D digital model, typically by laying down many successive thin layers of a material. The technology is diffusing from prototyping to large scale manufacturing of final parts. Today, early adopters including GE, Siemens, Google/Motorola, and Boeing are 3D printing intricate, high mix, low volume, and weight-sensitive final parts.

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Fluorescent Phantom for Small-Animal Imaging

Accurate and predictive software modeling could allow standardization for small-animal imaging

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Making Live Cell Imaging Glow

Digital illumination overcomes the limitations of fluorescence imaging

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Software Predicts Performance of White LED Designs

The use of white LEDs for solid-state lighting to address applications in the automotive, architectural and general illumination markets is just emerging.

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Give Your Business Value

A valuation of your privately held technology company is critical for strategic planning and decisions around financing, buying or selling a business

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Crafting Financing & Fund Raising Strategies

Whether you are an entrepreneur starting-up or the leader of an established business, a solid understanding of the available sources of capital and today's expected rate of return for capital is the fundamental step in crafting a financing and fund raising strategy.

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SPIE Volunteers Deliver Message to Congress

The photonics industry and the vertical market segments that the industry enables are in their infancy poised for rapid growth or already on a steep growth curve. The LED industry is where the semiconductor electronics industry was in the mid 1960’s. Laser based research laboratory instrumentation that enabled the mapping of the human genome and ground-breaking discoveries in proteomics is now being deployed at the point-of-the-care to deliver personalized diagnostics and therapies. Optical communications, display and camera technologies continue to fuel smarter phones and tablets.  The list of enabled markets is exhaustive.

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