Northrop Grumman Wins $66 Million Air Force Contract

The capability to detect and track small, moving objects remotely, in all conditions, is crucial to many surveillance and monitoring missions. It is also an ongoing challenge. According to Tian...

Glass technology company SCHOTT (SCHOTT North America) was awarded a multimillion-dollar contract from a leading defense contractor for infrared glass. The order supplies glass for launch tube...

Though the so-called debt limit deal that President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy struck this spring spared the U.S. from a default on its national debt, the subsequent Fiscal Responsibility...

Defense technology company Shield AI has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sentient Vision Systems. The Australia-based developer of AI-enabled real-time situational awareness previously...

The Harrier 55× AF-Zoom and 52× AF-Zoom IP cameras from Active Silicon Ltd. are autofocus zoom cameras suitable for UAV and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) projects, remote inspection,...

The Dione 320 LWIR core from Xenics NV is a 320 × 240 device optimized for smaller size, lower weight, lower power, low cost, and high performance. Designed as an entrance point for...

Version 1.0 of the Prism™ ISP from Teledyne FLIR is an image signal processing software development kit (SDK) for embedded systems designed for thermal and multispectral applications. Aided by...

The VL53L8CX from STMicroelectronics is an 8×8 multizone time-of-flight ranging sensor that can be used for applications including human-presence sensing, gesture recognition, robotics, and...

To Isaac Newton the problem was clear, and in 1704 he realized the effects of atmospheric turbulence on image formation. Just as heat waves shimmering above a hot patch of ground can distort our...

Optical fibers are made from either glass or plastic. Most are roughly the diameter of a human hair, and they may be many miles long. Light is transmitted along the center of the fiber from one end...

Spectral selection is a powerful tool that enhances conventional imaging tremendously. Most imaging systems, including the human eye, are designed to image light over a broad range of the spectrum....

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...

OPTOMAN offers high LIDT, environmentally stable laser optics featuring excellent spectral performance.

Manufacturers and brand owners navigating through the complexities of AI are left with a few key questions: How can AI reduce errors and automate manual tasks? Is algorithm training expensive or...

Multiple industries are now requiring high performance from their optical systems while also minimizing the size, weight, and power of system designs. To meet these engineering challenges, a process...

The characterization and control of optical systems with multiple stand-alone pieces of test equipment often presents difficult challenges that lead to lower stability, more noise, and increased...

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and many regulatory bodies around the world are taking significant steps toward sharply reducing its emissions from the oil and gas sector. A large portion of...

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...

MWIR stands for mid-wave infrared, referring to a specific range of wavelengths within the infrared spectrum. Infrared radiation is categorized into three main regions based on wavelength:...

Gallium nitride (GaN) is a compound made up of gallium (Ga) and nitrogen (N). It is a wide-bandgap semiconductor material that exhibits unique electrical and optical properties. Gallium nitride is...

Diamond turning, also known as diamond machining or diamond cutting, is a precision machining process used to produce high-quality optical surfaces and components with extremely tight tolerances. It...

-Plasmonic Waves -2000 Sun Power -Reading while Running This week on Light Matters: bad guys can run, but they can’t hide from thermal imaging, on-chip optics makes advances, solar dish pulls in the...

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...

Expanding upon the storied Fairchild Imaging legacy, we offer a wide range of imaging devices that provide our customers with top performance and key features for the most demanding applications. Our...

From engineering to volume production all from one source Founded in 1957, FISBA is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high precision micro-optics and optical system solutions. We...

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,...

RPMC Lasers Inc is a leading laser distributor in North America. We offer only diode lasers, laser modules, diode and lamp-pumped lasers, and fiber lasers (no systems). We sell at the manufacturers'...