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Astronomy

Beam Characterization

FTIR

Gas Detection

QCLAS

Spectroscopy

TDLAS

Temperature Measurements

Beam Characterization

Performance Studies of High-Power Optical Parametric Oscillators Pumped by a Pulsed Fiber Laser

In June of 2023 researchers from the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Starshining (Nanjing) Technology Company Limited, China published in Applied Sciences an article where they describe a new High-Power Optical Parametric Oscillators Pumped by a Pulsed Fiber Laser for which they use a VIGO detector for its characterization.

Temperature Measurements

Evaluation of a novel mid-infrared pyrometer for dynamic material experiments

At the end of 2022 scientific group from the Nevada National Security Site, USA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA published in Review of Scientific Instruments (AIP Publishing) an article where they describe Mid-IR pyrometer system 2.5-5.0 μm using VIGO detector.

Gas Detection

Embedded systems development for spacecraft fire detection MIR optical sensor

At the beginning of 2023 scientific group from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida in cooperation with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Washington published an article where they describe a fire detection system for spacecraft using VIGO product.

Beam Characterization

Mid-infrared homodyne balanced detector for quantum light characterization

A scientific group from Florence, Italy (LENS, CNR-INO, INFN) and from ETH Zürich, Switzerland published in 2021 in Optics Express (Pub Med) and in 2022 in Advanced Photonics Research (Wiley-VCH GmbH) two articles describing quantum light characterization. Presented systems contain VIGO photonics products.

Beam Characterization

Gas Detection

High-Power, Narrow-Linewidth Distributed-Feedback Quantum-Cascade Laser for Molecular Spectroscopy

In 2022 scientific group from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the University of Basel, Switzerland published in Photonics (MDPI) an article where they describe high-power, narrow-linewidth distributed-feedback quantum-cascade laser for molecular spectroscopy.

FTIR

Label-free bacteria identification for clinical applications

At the end of 2022 researchers from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and  Tel-Aviv University, Israel published in Journal of Biophotonics (Wiley-VCH GmbH) an article where they describe a system for bacterium identification based on VIGO detector.

Beam Characterization

Self-cascaded noncritically-phase-matched KTP optical parametric oscillator for generating orthogonally polarized multi-wavelength emissions at 3 μm

At the end of 2022 scientific group from Jiangsu Normal University, China published in Optics and Laser Technology (Elsevier) an article where they described among others pulse characteristics measurements of laser based on VIGO Photonics detector.

Gas Detection

TDLAS

WMS based dual-range real-time trace sensor for ethane detection in exhaled breath

In August 2022 scientific group from the China University of Petroleum, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute published in Optics and Lasers Engineering (Elsevier) an article where they describe a system for early screening and diagnosis of lung cancer based on VIGO product.

Gas Detection

A selective laser-based sensor for fugitive methane emissions

At the beginning of 2023 scientific group from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia published in Scientific Reports (Nature) article where they describe a mid-infrared sensor for methane concentration measurements using VIGO detector.

Gas Detection

Spectroscopy

Dual-comb optical activity spectroscopy for the analysis of vibrational optical activity induced by external magnetic field

At the beginning of 2023 scientific group from the East China Normal University, Shanghai published in Nature Communications an article where they describe a dual-comb optical activity spectroscopy using VIGO detector.

Beam Characterization

FTIR

Flexible biomimetic block copolymer composite for temperature and long-wave infrared sensing

At the beginning of 2023 researchers from the California Institute of Technology, USA published in Material Science an article where they describe flexible biomimetic thermal sensor and they use VIGO detector for the experimental setup.

FTIR

Spectroscopy

Frequency chirped Fourier-Transform spectroscopy

At the beginning of 2023 researchers from Institute for Quantum Electronics, Zürich, Switzerland published in Nature an article where they describe a Frequency chirped Fourier-Transform (FT) spectrometer that can perform Mid-IR dual-comb spectroscopy using VIGO detector.

Gas Detection

QCLAS

A High-Precision Mid-Infrared Spectrometer for Ambient HNO3 Measurements

At the end of 2022 scientific group from the Empa–Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Switzerland) published an article in Sensors where they report on a mid-IR laser spectrometer for high-precision HNO3 measurements using VIGO product.

Astronomy

Ultra-fast infrared detector for astronomy

At the beginning of 2023 scientific group from Florence University, Italy, and INFN/LNF, Italy published in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research (Elsevier) an article where they described ultra-fast infrared detector for astronomy based on VIGO Photonics components.

Gas Detection

TDLAS

Compact and Low-Power-Consumption CO Sensor Using a QCL with Intermittent Scanning Technique

At the beginning of 2023 scientific group from the Shandong Academy of Sciences (China) published an article in Photonics  where they report on a new carbon monoxide (CO) sensor using VIGO product.

Immersion Lenses Technology

There are many ways of improving detector parameters with the use of optical devices (including, amongst others, optical cones, concentrators), but only the optical immersion used by VIGO Photonics

Anti-fringing technology

Laser absorption spectroscopy is of great interest for gas detection in a variety of applications including: security, industrial process control, environmental protection and healthcare.