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II-VI announced its corporate name change. The company, which finalized its acquisition of Coherent Inc. this summer, is now called Coherent Corp. The company also debuted a brand identity, which...

Quantum computing firm Quantinuum named Rajeeb Hazra CEO. Outgoing CEO Ilyas Khan will assume the roles of chief product officer and vice chairman of the board of directors. Hazra most recently...

The University of Twente opened its BioImaging Centre, which serves as the core facility for microscopy at the university’s Technical Medical Centre. The facility is equipped with confocal...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Leonardo DRS received a contract to produce its next-generation thermal weapon sights for the U.S. Army. The firm fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command is...

The LC35 microscope camera from Olympus Corp. provides quality brightfield images in a cost-effective package. With a 3.5-MP CMOS sensor and versatile exposure times and resolution modes, the...

The SingleShot™ Wide Field Objective Imaging System from Navitar Inc. provides high-resolution, wide-field-of-view image capture. The modular fixed focal length imaging system combines...

The ECLIPSE Ui integrated microscope-based viewing system from Nikon Instruments Inc. is designed for clinical and pathological observation. The system provides a digital user experience,...

Knight Optical LLC’s fluorescence filter set range suits the diverse needs of various fluorescence applications that demand high-quality components. Each set comprises an excitation...

Aspheric surfaces are powerful tools that combine the optical corrections of multiple lenses into a single element (Figure 1) and affect performance in ways that spherical optics cannot. For example,...

An optical coating engineer is frequently confronted with a difficult specification for a coating. Often the difficulty in the specification results from the particular form of the optical system. If...

With a specific gravity of 1.85 g/cm3, beryllium is the lightest metal that is workable. It is 45 percent lighter than aluminum and approximately five times as stiff. Its stiffness to weight ratio...

What are thin-film coatings? The purpose of any optical thin-film coating is to modify the transmittance and reflectance properties of the substrate material to which they are applied. Most coatings...

Space can be a harsh environment for optical coatings. Optimax has successfully provided antireflection (AR) coatings for a wide range of space applications. This paper outlines the results of...

To achieve accurate and precise Raman measurements, optical filters play a crucial role in enhancing signal-to-noise ratio, and reducing background interference. This white paper explores the...

In the rapidly evolving world of industrial machine vision, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has emerged as an invaluable tool, offering a wealth of information for various applications. This white paper...

Optical Components must have different properties based on the application and interference effect they are intended for; the shape, surface quality, and coating determine the performance of the...

This event is supported by the European initiatives presented and is moderated by EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium. The European Commission is helping companies access the...

The interaction between photons and acoustic phonons within materials, first described by Leon Brillouin, has been widely investigated to characterize the mechanical and physical properties of...

Optical fibers made of fused silica have many applications, such as communication, sensing, and laser systems. The performance of optical fibers is highly sensitive to the manufacturing processes and...

Large-scale interdisciplinary research efforts have worked to comprehensively catalog cellular architectures in health and disease. To aid in this effort, researchers have developed a scalable...

Germanium crystal refers to a crystalline form of the element germanium (Ge), which is a metalloid and semiconductor commonly used in various electronic and optical applications. Germanium crystals...

A PIN photodiode is a type of photodetector or semiconductor device used to convert light signals into electrical signals. The name "PIN" is derived from the arrangement of the three semiconductor...

A silicon photodiode is a semiconductor device that converts light into an electrical current. It is a type of photodetector specifically designed for detecting and measuring light intensity. Silicon...

Magneto-optics refers to the study and manipulation of the interaction between magnetic fields and light (electromagnetic radiation). This field of physics explores how the properties of light, such...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you on a brief tour of the Higgins Laboratories at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Quinsigamond Community College and WPI received a $4M grant...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you to central Massachusetts as Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Quinsigamond Community College take on a comprehensive joint photonics laboratory...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we give you an in-depth look at the relationship between researchers and scientists at the University of California Davis, and surgeons and clinicians at nearby...

Optolong Optics Co. Ltd., brand owner of Optolong, is a manufacturer of fluorescence filters and astronomy filters. We also offer other interference filters including UV filters, visible filters, and...

An endoscope is a medical instrument used to view inside the human body. The endoscope may use a coherent fiber optic bundle or conventional optics to relay the image to the eye or a television...

With more than 50 years in the photonics/metrology industry and over 200 years combined expertise of our staff, Optronic Laboratories has been improving the way the world measures light by offering...

The LaCroix name is synonymous with quality precision optics. Since 1947, three generations of family leadership have guided LaCroix Precision Optics to become the premier precision optics...

ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 certified and D&B DUNS # 113515303 Shanghai Optics is an unparalleled custom system solution provider offering advance precision custom optical design, engineering,...

Reynard Corporation has been a premier supplier of custom optics and thin-film coatings to a global customer base since 1984. Reynard focuses on manufacturing the highest quality products with...