The University of Rochester has implemented an augmented reality (AR) platform for its students to further explore chemical engineering. Students simulate reactions in a chemical plant using an...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, announced today that Kent Rochford will be the organization’s new CEO, taking over for Eugene Arthurs, who is set to retire June 2....

The Optical Society (OSA) has named Ulrike Fuchs of asphericon GmbH, Germany, as the first recipient of the Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award. Fuchs is recognized for interlinking...

Optifab, the largest optical manufacturing conference and exhibition in North America, is fast approaching. Organized jointly by SPIE and the American Precision Optics Manufacturers Association, the...

OpTest® Lens Measurement Systems perform tests in situations similar to actual applications, replicating field angle positions, conjugate ratios, spectral regions and image plane architecture....

Diverse Optics manufactures custom, precision, polymer optics. Our core processes include injection molding, single point diamond turning (SPDT), opto-mechanical design, metrology, assembly, bonding,...

Diverse Optics Inc. specializes in single-point diamond turning of custom polymer optics. For over 30 years, we've manufactured the most challenging polymer optic components and assemblies for...

The Newport Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectrometer (FSRS) from MKS Instruments Inc. is designed for the scientific research market as a commercially available turn-key spectrometer for femtosecond...

Tune into this month's edition of Light Matters for 'Part 1' of an exclusive interview with SPIE CEO, Eugene Arthurs, as he speaks about his upcoming retirement. We’ll also take you to Rochester,...

Tune into this month’s edition of Light Matters for the complete list of Photonics Media’s Industry Beacon award winners. We’ll also introduce you to an Industry Beacon in the Educator category, and...

Luminate NY, the only optics, photonics and imaging (OPI) accelerator and investment fund in the world, announced the final winners at the Light Tomorrow with Today event in Rochester, NY. For the...

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

Freeform optics are gaining popularity with lens designers and optical system integrators as a method to solve complex optical system design problems. Optimax has developed new freeform manufacturing...

The HELIX Spectral Analysis System was designed to address the limitations of most commercially available spectrophotometers when measuring high-performance thin-film optical filters. The system’s...

High-performance, ultra-narrowband interference filters with > 95% transmission, less than 0.1 nm bandwidths, steep edges, a square spectral shape, wide range blocking measured at > OD 8 (-80 dB),...

Failure is an inevitable part of the product development process, because you have to explore all the ways a design won’t work to find the way it will work. When you’re in a situation that demands...

Free Webinar Post Webinar Notes We will be posting additional questions and answers from the webinar soon. The presentation slides will not be available for download but we will have a list...

This free webinar, sponsored by the Technology Transfer program of CLEO: Market Focus and Photonics Media, complements the live event, which will be held on Thursday, June 13, in the CLEO:2013...

Machine vision technology is key to efficiently manufacturing a wide range of products today, from semiconductors to appliances to beverage containers. A crucial first step in any good machine vision...

Researchers from around the world presented their latest work at “Biophotonic Imaging for Medicine: A Digital Conference.” Presentations focused on a range of light-based imaging and...

A radar system that uses electro-optic rather than microwave instrumentation and methods to perform its acquisition and tracking functions.

The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and...

1. In detector technology, the long wavelength at which detector response falls to a set percentage (usually 20 or 50 percent). 2. In fiber optics, the shortest wavelength at which a fiber transmits...

In astronomy, the relative brightness of a celestial body. Originally a scale from 1 to 6, where 1 represented the brightest and 6 the faintest visible night sky objects. This scale has been expanded...

The benefits of aspheric lenses are numerous: They allow for a reduction in spherical aberrations and are ideal for focusing or collimating light, as they can achieve a low ƒ-number. Aspheres...

An interferometer is an instrument that compares the position or surface structure of two objects. The basic two-beam division of amplitude interferometer components consists of a light source, a...

The use of precision polymer optics is becoming an increasing necessity today as products demand sophisticated light handling components to achieve desired results. Polymer optics can be thought of...

With the understanding of aspheric lens manufacturing provided in part one of this article, designers have the tools to optimize their aspheres; the next step is to understand how to specify and...

A fizeau interferometer is a type of interferometer noted for producing narrow multiple-beam interference fringes. As a result, when compared with the Twyman-Green, the Fizeau interferometer has...

A Mach Zehnder interferometer is an interferometer derived from the Twyman-Green interferometer. Light passing through a sample region in one direction recombines with a second leg without traversing...

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