Snake Creek Lasers is Now Advanced Photonic Sciences

A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), and Argonne National Laboratory have 3D-printed a variety of stainless steel...

Argonne National Laboratories’ Advanced Photon Source (APS) has begun its long-scheduled comprehensive upgrade. The process will see the electron storage ring at the heart of the facility...

Rennes, France, based laser communications company Cailabs expanded its operations by opening an office in Washington, D.C. The company has stated an interest in not only supporting the U.S....

A NASA-funded collaboration will focus on advancing quantum sensing technology to enable new understanding of Earth and the effects of climate change. Led by the University of Texas at Austin (UT),...

The DQM400 four-port optical muxponder system from XKL LLC is designed to help network operators increase efficiency and reduce costs. The system enables easy scalability, consolidation of...

The MCR IQ™ Motor Control Board Series from Theia Technologies facilitates operation of motorized lenses, allowing users to control zoom, focus, P-iris, and optional IR filters. The boards...

The single-core SAMA7G54 Arm Cortex A7-based memory protection unit (MPU) from Microchip Technology Inc. runs up to 1 GHz. The device features a MIPI CSI-2 camera interface and a traditional...

The Meridian® Sol-55 projector from Optikos Corp. provides illumination through a high-intensity white LED, which can be remotely controlled for high dynamic range measurements in automotive...

Aspheric surfaces are powerful tools that combine the optical corrections of multiple lenses into a single element (Figure 1) and affect performance in ways that spherical optics cannot. For example,...

Flat optics generally perform three main functions: They transmit light (windows), reflect light (mirrors), and fold light (prisms). While most optical manufacturers make spherical and flat optics, a...

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...

Given the pace at which technology advances, there always seems to be a learning curve. With the abundance of consumer electronics available, there typically is no right or wrong way to use these...

This whitepaper looks at the unique challenges associated with optical systems by exploring two extremes, an ultra-high precision instrument, and a low-cost consumer product, and the different...

Nanoscale motion requires fastidious attention to instrumentation, passive controls, and experiment design. Most users have experience in motion control within the sphere of the microscale. In this...

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A great "How-to" for cleaning optics. A must have for ALL.

In recent years, endoscopes have evolved and now enable a range of minimally invasive diagnostic procedures and surgeries. The imaging function is now located in the small tip of the endoscope, where...

Raman spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique that probes vibrational states of molecules using, for example, visible light. It requires very little or no sample preparation and can be employed to...

Andrew Bodkin, founder of Bodkin Design & Engineering, shares a technical overview of the process of machine vision sensing based on his 30 years of experience in electro-optics, custom...

The last 25 years have seen Raman microscopy evolve from a relatively slow spectroscopic imaging technique, which could take days to image a sample, to an accepted rapid and powerful technique. It is...

A hydrogel is a three-dimensional network of polymer chains that are hydrophilic, meaning they have a strong affinity for water. This network structure allows hydrogels to absorb and retain large...

A cine camera that exposes a series of individual frames to record the changes in a subject that slowly alters with time. This results in the eventual showing of an event that happened over an...

The creation of topographical maps and charts from a stereographic record produced through the overlapping of consecutive aerial photographs by more than 50 percent.

An electrophoretic display, often referred to as an electronic paper display or e-paper display, is a type of electronic visual display technology used in electronic devices for the purpose of...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we introduce you to Drake Anthony, aka styropyro. Drake, 25, has been building his own lasers since he was 12 years old. He's got quite the following on his...

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...

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...

Custom lapping and polishing services involve specialized processes used to improve the surface finish and dimensional accuracy of components to meet specific requirements or standards. These...

For over 100 years, Prior Scientific has been manufacturing precision optical and electro-mechanical equipment and instrumentation. Prior is a leader in the development of precision motion,...

In 1977, Dale Flaming, a scientist working at the University of California at San Francisco, was having difficulty reliably producing micropipettes. He developed the first electronically controlled...

RAR nano-textured optics are out of the lab and in the field! TelAztec designs, prototypes, and manufactures surface relief microstructures that manipulate light. RAR, or Random Anti-Reflection,...

Electro Optical Components (EOC) provides Advanced Systems and Components including Detectors, Sources, and Signal Recovery Amplifiers from the UV to the far IR. UV Photodetectors, UV APDs and UV...