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Carl Zeiss AG is expanding its executive board, adding Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf as chief transformation officer. Matthias Metz, member of the executive board of Carl Zeiss AG and responsible for the...

SPIE and Optica named Clara Tibbets the 2022-2023 Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow. Tibbets will serve a one-year term in Washington, D.C., as a special legislative assistant for a member of...

LED illumination technology company Smart Vision Lights promoted Nick Doornbos to director of sales. Doornbos has held the role of interim director of sales since March 2022. He joined the company in...

Peter de Groot, chief scientist at Zygo Corp., was elected to serve as the 2023 vice president of SPIE. The election brings de Groot into the SPIE presidential chain. He will serve as president-elect...

The FlexPoint® 12-Series of large-format multi-sensor coordinate measuring machines from Optical Gaging Products is designed for large, heavy parts with complex dimensions and tolerances. ...

The GeoImage™ Imaging Photometer for Vitrinite Reflectance Measurements from CRAIC Technologies is a microscope imaging photometer with optical capabilities for analyzing materials at a...

The Grande.9 (532-1) diode laser module from Power Technology Inc. is a high-power device at 532 nm for OEM applications. The device offers a stable semiconductor alternative to at nearly 1 W...

The 127.7-MP HB-127-S 25 GigE Bolt camera from Emergent Vision Technologies Inc. captures full-resolution images at 19.9 fps. Available in monochrome and color versions, the camera features...

Given the pace at which technology advances, there always seems to be a learning curve. With the abundance of consumer electronics available, there typically is no right or wrong way to use these...

Materials processing with lasers is actually a broad term for a diverse range of applications. The major categories of these uses, and the lasers that service them, are summarized Table 1. At one...

One of the most critical elements of any time-resolved spectroscopy and dynamics experiment is the optical delay line. A typical optical delay line consists of a retroreflector or folding mirrors on...

Flat optics generally perform three main functions: They transmit light (windows), reflect light (mirrors), and fold light (prisms). While most optical manufacturers make spherical and flat optics, a...

This document outlines how Seiwa Optical's fully automated inspection equipment can increase the threshold, reduce chip loss, and decrease production costs of wafer manufacturing.

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Nanoscale motion requires fastidious attention to instrumentation, passive controls, and experiment design. Most users have experience in motion control within the sphere of the microscale. In this...

The Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) was conceived as a different image sensor, one that counts photoelectrons one-at-a-time using millions or billions of specialized pixels read out at a high frame rate....

Demand for high sensitivity and high dynamic range motivates new approaches for image sensors. The quanta image sensor (QIS) concept involves counting individual photons on sensors made of 1...

Metrology of optics and optical systems is a challenging tasks without one easy solution. In many ways, metrology in the manufacturing of lenses and mirrors is well understood. But, for the most...

Jiaju Ma explains the fundamentals of photon-counting image sensors, or quanta image sensors (QIS), beginning with the background knowledge necessary to effectively apply these devices. This...

A quantum well is a structure in quantum mechanics that confines particles, such as electrons or holes, in one spatial dimension. This confinement leads to quantized energy levels, creating a...

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Nanophotonics is a branch of science and technology that explores the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, typically at dimensions smaller than the wavelength of light. It involves the study and...

Photometry is the branch of science that deals with the measurement of light, particularly in terms of its intensity and the way the human eye perceives it. It involves the quantification of visible...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at MIT run by Dr. Dirk Englund. Dr. Englund's group, the Quantum Photonics Group, is made up of postdocs and...

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