Hurely Appointed UK Sales Manager of Opto

Laser imaging systems supplier LaVision has appointed Stefan Ilse to the position of managing director. Ilse has more than 20 years of experience in optical measurement technology spending that time...

Stephen Streiffer was named director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Streiffer serves as interim director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and will join ORNL in October. Streiffer...

Life science technology company Axion Biosystems appointed Kevin Gould CEO, effective immediately. Gould has more than 20 years of senior management experience in medical diagnostic sales and...

Machine vision technology company Automation Technology (AT) promoted Nina Claaßen to head of marketing. Claaßen has been in marketing at AT for two and a half years. In this role, she...

The Silux-37xx Series from Gigahertz-Optik in collaboration with Oculus Photonics and HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH are silux radiometers made to measure ambient lighting conditions in an unambiguous...

The TeraScan 100 terahertz frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar imaging scanner from Lytid is designed for offline, nondestructive testing inspection on injected, extruded, or molded...

The OS series of large-diameter mirror mounts from Optical Surfaces Ltd. provides a secure platform for larger, high-precision flat, off-axis, and spherical mirrors. The mounts are made from black...

The A1 series of compact beam expanders from Optical Surfaces Ltd. delivers ×30 magnification from 2-mm aperture high-power laser beam lines. Delivering artifact-free high magnification,...

When purchasing an industrial laser system, the astute buyer will look for a Class 1 laser product — a system where the laser beam hazard is completely enclosed and there is no potential laser...

The term fluorescence is often applied as a synonym for photoluminescence, although luminescence actually covers fluorescence and phosphorescence. Both of these terms describe the process of...

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...

This application note demonstrates the use of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy for the analysis of human serum albumin. An IR5 FTIR spectrometer was used, equipped with a heated ATR accessory, to help tackle...

One subset of deep learning-based machine vision is unsupervised learning. In simple terms, the deep-learning module is trained on images that are defect free. The standard training method consists...

Adaptive optics can be used to correct for instrument and sample aberrations or to dynamically shape the wavefront and point spread function (PSF) to create new possibilities or reduce instrument...

This webinar will discuss a new model for advanced microscopy, based on shareable, modular instruments. This model, called Flamingo, is designed to bridge the gap between biology and technology....

There is hardly any technology that is not constantly evolving. This is especially true for vision technology in the medical and life sciences sectors. CCD sensors have largely been discontinued, but...

An infrared camera, also known as a thermal imaging camera or IR camera, is a device that captures and visualizes the infrared radiation emitted by objects, revealing temperature variations across...

A fiber optic component or system designed in such a way that it can be operated by people without specialized knowledge of the field.

A wide-angle lens is a type of camera lens that has a shorter focal length than a standard or normal lens, allowing it to capture a broader field of view. Wide-angle lenses are characterized by their...

A photovoltaic cell, commonly known as a solar cell, is a semiconductor device that directly converts light energy into electrical energy through the photovoltaic effect. The photovoltaic effect is...

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,...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we give you an in-depth look at the recent Luminate Lightning Awards. New York’s Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul was there and tells us why Luminate is important...

Tune into this month's edition of Light Matters for some of the highlights from Optifab 2017, as distributors and buyers from all over the world met in the photonics industry hub of Rochester, New...

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