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Tens of millions of people around the world suffer from corneal diseases, with only a small fraction eligible for corneal transplantation. In a recent study, researchers at the University of Ottawa...

A targeted spectroscopy system developed at Zilia Inc., by a team led by professor Dominic Sauvageau from the University of Alberta, enables concurrent imaging of the eye fundus — a region at...

A study conducted by Mass Eye and Ear, the Broad Institute at MIT, and Harvard Medical School has demonstrated links between the thinning of different retinal layers and an increased risk of disease....

Automotive technology solutions developer indie Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company whose technology supports driver safety and automation, has acquired EXALOS AG. The Swiss photonics...

Metrohm has opened a new webshop for lasers, component spectrometers, and Raman spectroscopy sampling solutions. The new m-oem brand includes four Metrohm companies: Innovative Photonic Solutions...

The Monaco 345-25-50 industrial UV femtosecond laser from Coherent Corp. features 50 W of output power. The 400-fs laser is designed for high-speed, high-volume cutting of wafers and stacked...

The TruTool PS 100 part separator tool from TRUMPF SE & Co. KG removes small parts quickly and easily from the scrap skeletons of 2D laser cutting machine processed sheets. The...

The WeldStudio™ 3 and WeldStudio™ 3 Pro weld monitoring software from Xiris Automation Inc. controls cameras, enables recording and playback, and provides the ability to extract...

Photonics is the study of light and other types of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The impact of photonics on research, technology, navigation, culture, astronomy, forensics, and...

To obtain optimal performance from a laser scanning system, the system integrator must carefully weigh the effects of each component and consider how best to implement hardware and software to...

Excimers are pulsed gas lasers that deliver high output power and pulse energies in the ultraviolet and deep-ultraviolet wavelengths. This enables them to power applications that cannot be supported...

Early fiber lasers were inefficient and limited to low powers, until more effective methods emerged to deliver the pump light into the cladding. Valentin Gapontsev, founder and CEO of IPG Photonics,...

The market for the tunable light source is ever expanding due to its uses in countless fields, such as the inspection industry, machine visioning, and a wide range of optical experiments....

This technical white paper describes how tunable bandpass filters with wide and deep out-of-band blocking can be built using continuously variable edge filters combined with homogeneous blocking...

Block Engineering's widely tunable mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers are designed for use by researchers and manufacturers. Our next generation design features a six-fold increase in laser power,...

High-speed adaptive correction of optics, based on real-time metrology feedback, has benefitted numerous scientific communities for several decades. However, it remains a major technological...

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), also referred to as optoacoustic imaging, is an emerging biomedical imaging technology that is noninvasive and nonionizing and has high sensitivity, satisfactory imaging...

The development of new blood vessels plays a pivotal role in the leading causes of blindness, including macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. These conditions affect millions of people...

This webinar with Peter Seitz, Ph.D., will provide an overview of semiconductor image sensors and introduce photon-resolving quantitative CMOS imaging (qCMOS). Imaging in general and...

The societal and economic spasms of the early 2020s highlighted the crucial role of world-spanning supply chains in the modern global economy, as well as the growing role of digital technology,...

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography is an imaging technique used in medical diagnostics, particularly in ophthalmology, to visualize and analyze the internal structures of biological...

Laser ablation is a process that involves the removal or erosion of material from a target surface using laser energy. This technique is widely used in various scientific, industrial, and medical...

Swept-source optical coherence tomography is an imaging technique used in medical diagnostics, particularly in ophthalmology, to visualize and analyze the internal structures of biological tissues,...

A diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL) is a type of laser system that uses semiconductor diode lasers to pump energy into a solid gain medium, resulting in the generation of coherent light. This...

The changing nature of the "optics shop" — and, more broadly, its role in the optics and photonics industry today — is an effective gauge for tracking how optics workforce development is aligned to...

Check out our new video tutorial on how to clean spherical lenses! Our latest video breaks down the step-by-step process for effectively cleaning spherical lenses, ensuring crystal-clear images every...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

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Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

CASTECH is a recognized leading supplier of nonlinear optical crystals, laser crystals and precision optical components for laser, telecom, medical, analysis and detector markets. Products...

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...