Kamper Appointed President and CEO of Leoni

Along with unveiling its second-quarter earnings, ams OSRAM announced it will eliminate its passive optical components portfolio, among others, as part of a strategic realignment. The company plans...

Ursula Keller was named as the recipient of the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist for her work in ultrafast lasers. The prize is often referred to as the “Swiss Nobel prize” and is...

MicroLED technology developer Polar Light Technologies has named Oskar Fajerson as CEO. Fajerson has a background in product management, sales, and marketing and a degree in material physics from KTH...

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) has named Oliver Scheel business development manager. Part of Scheel’s role will be the expansion of exchange among industry participants, both...

The updated FastTicoRAW software development kit from intoPIX SA features lossless RAW coding for measurement and analysis. On CPU and GPU, the kit targets sensor data used within artificial...

XIMEA's prototype models from the xiX-camera line are equipped with Sony’s Pregius™ sensors that easily replace former Sony CCD sensors. The models’ CMOS sensors are present in the...

IPX Photoresins from Nanoscribe GmbH & Co. KG have been designed for the Quantum X systems. To make the most of the Quantum X platform's printing speed, precision, and performance, the IPX...

The Pega and Capyork multispectral linear array IR detectors from Lynred are designed for integration into imaging satellites, tracking and measurement instruments used in water cycle observation and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Technique for measuring the volume bulk of materials as they move along a conveyor with an accuracy of better than 1 percent. Based on the use of high-resolution arrays of solid-state detectors, the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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