The Laser Driven Light Source: theory, practice, and applications

Slawomir Piatek, Ph.D., Hamamatsu Corporation and New Jersey Institute of Technology

December 1, 2022

About this webinar

Numerous applications require broadband light sources that have stable output, high brightness, stable spectral composition, and a high degree of spatial coherence. The traditional broadband light sources, such as thermal black bodies or plasma discharge tubes, satisfy some of these performance requirements but rarely all. The Laser-Driven Light Source (LDLS) offers a significant performance improvement over traditional sources and is rapidly becoming the light source of choice in applications such as semiconductor wafer inspection, image sensor characterization, and the testing of optical systems such as telescopes.

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About the presenter

Slawomir S. Piatek, Ph.D., is a senior university lecturer on physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a science consultant for Hamamatsu Corp. At the university, he has been measuring the proper motions of nearby galaxies using images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. At Hamamatsu, he has developed a photonics training program for engineers. Piatek is also involved in popularizing the silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) as a novel photodetector by writing and lecturing, and by experimenting with the device. He earned a doctorate in physics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1994.