German Business Awards 2020

EU BUSINESS NEWS / 2020 German Business Awards 35 , diagnosis providing a fast tumour margin recognition. The technique combines four key spectroscopy methods, Mid-IR, FTIR, NIR, and Raman, combined into one universal research multispectral fibre system. By data fusion transferred from the combined 2 (or more) best methods selected from all four in comparison, surgeons can determine the border where tumours end and healthy tissue begins in real time allowing to navigate the surgery for minimal invasive, but complete tumour removal. So, you can see how the state-of-the-art technologies developed here are incredibly impactful, placing this company at the for-front in fibre photonics and fibre optic development. Company: art photonics GmbH Website: www.artphotonics.com Global Leaders in Mid-IR Fibre Optics 2020 EU Business News recently awarded art photonics GmbHwith the title of Global Leaders in Mid-IR Fibre Optics 2020 in the German Business Awards. We caught up with this forward- thinking fibre optics company to discover how they came to be worldwide leaders in the field of fibre photonics. Oct20791 Du r i n g t h e historical week in November 1989 in Berlin Viacheslav Artyushenko, Ph.D., was lucky to participate in Berlin’s Wall destruction. Same week he has decided to make spin-off of his Lab at the General Physics Institute in Moscow to the Joint Soviet- German-American Venture. It was registered in 1990 in Moscow and served as his “business school” before the foundation of art photonics GmbH in Berlin in 1998 - where his pioneering development of the unique Polycrystalline IR- fibres technology was upgraded to the industrial production of Mid InfraRed fibre cables and bundles, probes for process-spectroscopy and high power laser cables for laser technology and medicine. The goal for the art photonics team is to engineer, design and manufacture high-quality optical fibre solutions for the chemical, pharma, biotech, food and other industries, as well for medical, space and environment applications. Fibre optics is a key technology for the photonics industry, providing a flexible mechanism for delivering the output from lasers and solid-state sources in industrial manufacturing, military, environmental sensing, and space applications. art photonics GmbH provide a variety of fibre optic cables & bundles that cover a unique broad spectral range of user selectable diameters and numerical apertures. The dedicated and talented team at art photonics, including 5 PhD, has had developed either solely or in partnership with others, some ground-breaking technologies. Here, we provide a snapshot of some of the pioneering products developed by the team at art photonics GmbH. Further detail of these products can be found on their website www.artphotonics.com FlexiSpec® product line includes innovative fibre optic probes, bundles, and fibre couplers designed for in-line process- spectroscopy of a broad spectral range: from 300 nm to 16 μm. FlexiSpec® Probes design family enables measurement of ATR- absorption, transmission, or transflection spectra; to run diffuse reflection, fluorescent, or multi- spectral analysis when coupled to any FT-IR, FT-NIR, or grating spectrometer; LED, QCL, MEMS, or other type spectral sensor to be used in-field or in PAT-applications, eliminating the need for time consuming sample collection or preparation. FlexiSens® product line includes innovative Multi-Spectral Fibre System—a powerful tool to differentiate cancerous and healthy tissue using the Raman, Fluorescence, NIR and MIR spectroscopy with unique fibre probes. Comparison of the sensitivity and accuracy of these key spectroscopy methods enables to select the best one for distinct application or to fuse the data from 2 or more methods. This synergy fusion helps to achieve the highest specificity and accuracy not only for medical diagnostics, but for chemical process control as well. Success in MSF-system analysis leads to the development of IoT generation of spectral fiber sensors. FlexiRay® cables produced for various lasers in broad spectral range – from Excimer to Diode, solid state, Er:YAG and gas CO- & CO2-lasers. FlexiRay® bundles & convertors designed for a broad spectral range from 0.3-16µm include arranged fibre bundles to make remote flexible non-contact 2D & 3D imaging for Mid-IR and Combi Vis-MIR endoscopy, while the customized fibre combiners can integrate the selected set of different wavelengths from Quantum Cascade QC-Lasers in one fiber or summarize the power from many diode lasers in bundle with total power in multi kW range. Since 2015 art photonics is working with medical partners in Berlin and Rotterdam on a new diagnostic technique to support cancer