As rich and manifold as communications, sensing, and display applications may be, these applications represent only the tip of the iceberg of the ongoing photonics revolution. New applications are continuously being developed. Chiral technology promises to accelerate time to market and enhance the performance of many of these applications.

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Industrial Lasers
High powered fiber lasers (HPFL) inhabit much of the modern assembly line. From welding and drilling to cutting and surface modification, increasingly many facets of industrial manufacturing rely on HPFLs.  Owing to its all-glass makeup, Helica™ components, such as polarizers, will tolerate higher peak pulse powers and temperatures than other components and can also be tailored to function across a very broad spectral range.


Silicon Photonics
Planar integrated circuits (PICs) are considered by many to be the future of computing, telecommunications and host of other new applications also each built around high refractive index structures. Helica™ tapered and evanescent couplers connect PICs to mainstay low index contrast fiber. In addition, these tapered couplers also chart the way to plug-and-play, chip level, passively aligned interconnects. 


Test/Analysis
From sensors to displays, most every last fiber optic system incorporates quality assurance, be it weekly, monthly, annually or uninterrupted, real-time monitoring.  Integrated Helica™ polarizers, fiber lasers, fiber gratings, and tunable source lasers accommodate this derivative need as conveniently, efficiently, and sensitively as they do the demands of the underlying, base system.


Medicine / Biochemistry
Photonics facilitate much of modern medicine from minimally invasive arthroscopic laser surgery to biochemical assays. Chiral components can be utilized by the healthcare field in many ways, as shrunken and improved pressure and temperature sensors, as chemical sensors to detect anomalies, or as subsystems that improve the delivery of light for diagnostics, therapeutics, microsurgery and even manufacturing process control. These components enable exacting control over polarization, irradiated area and wavelength that can benefit a wide variety of cosmetic, surgical, diagnostic, sensing, research, and production procedures.


Imaging
Mid- to far-infrared and terahertz wavelengths increasingly peer into everything from cargo shipping containers to airline passengers’ garments. As government agencies like Homeland Security and departments like the Container Security Initiative (CSI) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) canvas for quick, unobtrusive, and economical methods, chiral technology holds the promise of enabling solutions.  This owes both to the technology’s scalability and to its compatibility across material platforms.


Energy
Exhibiting unique portability and environmental friendliness, solar energy remains one of the leading candidates for practicable clean energy. Presently, however, typical photovoltaic panels only convert a small percentage of sunlight into energy.  PolyHelica™ films, highly efficient laser feedback structures, extract light from their molecular neighbors and may be able to aid the sector in its efforts to boost efficiencies.


Free Space Communications
If you are within 100 meters of a high speed feed, have a few months and have several hundred thousand dollars, a full fiber link would have you up and running in no time.  If though you have only a few days and only about $10,000, soon wireless, free space optics could do the same.  With the help of PolyHelica™ wide area lasers this choice will become just as simple a choice as it sounds.

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