FEI Acquires Aspex Corp.

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...

Lidar developer Hesai Technology collaborated with NVIDIA to integrate Hesai’s AT128 automotive-grade, ultrahigh-resolution long-range lidar into the NVIDIA DRIVE and NVIDIA Omniverse...

Mark Sobey, president of Coherent’s lasers segment, has retired. Sobey held the position since July 2022, when II-VI merged with Coherent. Before the merger, Sobey served as Coherent’s...

Electron spins could become more efficient and easier to manage through a light-based approach using halide perovskite semiconductors. Research teams at Harvard’s Rowland Institute and the...

The Model ZMM-1 industrial inspection monocular zoom microscope from Titan Tool Supply Inc. is designed to provide manufacturers of smaller components and materials with reliable, accurate, real-time...

The Model FX-3 from Titan Tool Supply Inc. is an industrial-grade widefield stereo microscope designed to facilitate various manufacturing and quality assurance remote visual inspection tasks. It...

MXPLFLN series industrial microscopy objectives from Evident Scientific combine a high numerical aperture and long working distance for flexibility in various inspection applications. Designed...

Surface-Mount Silicon and Indium Gallium Arsenide Photodetectors from Advanced Photonix are designed for high-speed response applications. The surface-mount devices are assembled in compact,...

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...

Technological advances have resulted in new, higher-quality sensors that enable machine vision cameras to deliver greater features and functionality at a lower cost than ever before. These factors...

Imaging has long been used in industrial processes to measure, monitor, control, or otherwise manage the production of goods. The challenge to the process designer is to develop a tool that captures...

Image intensification, the basis of night vision, is a complex conversion of energy particles that occurs within a vacuum tube. An image-intensifier system works by collecting photons through an...

Answering some common questions new users of optical design and analysis software have are “How accurate are the results?” or “Can I trust the results I get?” and discussing the importance of...

Raman spectroscopy is a powerful non-invasive, non-contact tool capable of identifying molecular constituents of samples. Wavelength selective optical filters are used to block the dominant Rayleigh...

We offer custom prisms, polygons, windows, mirrors, and wedges from one source. FISBA not only has the complete production chain in-house, we can also develop entire systems built-to-spec or support...

MKS Newport spectral optics product overview providing a summary of competencies in diffraction gratings, optical filters, optical mirrors, OptoFlash multichannel spectrometer engines, and design &...

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...

Alignment time is the largest contributor to the cost of silicon photonics and optical assemblies. New industrial automation technology dramatically shortens the time required to optimally align...

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...

First realized in 1994 by Bell Labs, quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) enable rapid advancements in academic, industrial, and defense applications. QCLs are now available in a diverse range of commercial...

An intensified charge-coupled device (ICCD) camera is an advanced imaging device that combines the capabilities of both an image intensifier and a charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor to achieve...

Ultraviolet (UV) fiber optics refers to optical fibers that are designed and optimized for the transmission of ultraviolet light, which is electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than...

Nonlinear optical materials are substances that exhibit optical properties that are not linearly proportional to the intensity of incident light. In other words, these materials produce optical...

Micro-optics refers to the design, fabrication, and application of optical components and systems at a microscale level. These components are miniaturized optical elements that manipulate light at a...

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...

Students from large and small size companies and bigger Department of Defense affiliates of the AIM Photonics Institute took part in the recent AIM Photonics Summer Academy at MIT. This was the third...

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...

Avantier delivers professional optical design consulting with innovative solutions by experienced engineers in custom design, analysis, modeling, and lens design. With over 50 years experience, our...

A scanning electron microscope is an electron microscope that uses a beam of electrons -- accelerated to high energy and focused on the sample -- to scan the sample surface, ejecting secondary...

A transmission electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses magnetic lenses to transmit a beam of electrons through an object; the electrons are then focused on a fluorescent screen to form...

An ultraviolet microscope is a microscope used either to detect selective absorption of various wavelengths by the specimen or to achieve increased resolution by virtue of the short wavelength of...

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...

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

Lambda Research Optics, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of laser optics with high power thin-film coatings and high precision fabrications. Lambda serves a wide range of industries, such as Biotech,...

For over 30 years, Allied Vision has helped people see the bigger picture to achieve their goals. We believe knowledge is power and always strive to deliver valuable insight with our technology...