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Femto Sensing International has expanded its SX line of optical sensing interrogators for high-sensor-count fiber Bragg grating (FBG) applications. Designed for industrial, medical, civil,...

Alfa Chemistry’s photosensitizer line includes porphyrins, ketone, acridine, ruthenium, iridium photosensitizers, naphthoquinone, and other types for solar cells, catalysis, biomedicine, and...

The L-Series of rigid industrial-grade micro fiberscopes from Titan Tool Supply Inc. are fiber optic borescopes designed for remote visual inspections and diagnostics in hard-to-reach areas without...

The VHS400 Verrillon® series of specialty optical fibers from AFL are designed to withstand harsh environments within the oil, gas, industrial, geothermal, and military markets. The pure...

University of California, Riverside (UCR) researchers have designed a composite material that offers powerful photon upconversion capabilities and that could support a range of light-driven...

Ultrafast optical imaging is typically measured in picoseconds, whereas high-speed electronic cameras image at the millisecond and microsecond timescale. To bridge the gap between these technologies,...

Bruker Corp. acquired Inscopix Inc., a developer of miniaturized microscopes known as miniscopes, for freely moving animal brain imaging. Since Inscopix’s founding in 2011, its flagship...

SPIE’s five-day Optics + Photonics trade show and exhibition will return to the San Diego Convention Center Aug. 20-24, with the company exhibition portion scheduled to run Aug. 22-24....

For rotationally symmetric optical systems, either the lens or the detector moves along the optical axis to maintain optical performance. If the compensating axial motion is accomplished without the...

The applications where rapid detection of light is a must are many. They include a wide variety: semiconductor inspection, gene sequencing, oil well logging and high-energy physics. The reasons for...

Radiometry involves several activities. The two most common are the description and measurement of optical radiation, and, starting with the knowledge of some aspects of optical radiation at one...

Camera resolution depends upon the optical blur diameter and the detector size. Schade combined these to create an equivalent resolution that is a function of Fλ/d where F is the focal ratio,...

Fiber Optic Gyro Coil - The Core components of FOG used in inertial navigation field.

This white paper compares the advantages and disadvantages of different types of retroreflectors. It highlights the advantages of monolithic, hollow retroreflectors which do not suffer from chromatic...

LDT data example for an IBS Coated 1064 nm Thin Film Polarizer.

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...

Inverse-design is a new paradigm that enables engineers to tap into vast parameter space for designing novel photonic and optical devices, including compact metadevices. Inverse-design approaches can...

PART 1: Hexapods are 6-axis parallel-kinematic machines often employed to solve complex multi-axis precision positioning and motion applications in fields such as photonics, optics, metrology,...

Cellular metabolism is the process by which cells generate energy. The process can be dysregulated in many diseases and pathologies, including cancer, neurodegeneration, and diabetes. Current...

This webinar will help you develop a plan for your machine vision system that will ensure reliability, repeatability, standardization, and quality on the factory floor. It will discuss traditional...

A machine vision system is an integrated combination of hardware and software components designed to capture, process, and analyze images to perform automated inspection, measurement, and quality...

Automated optical inspection (AOI) is a technology used in manufacturing processes, particularly in electronics, to automatically inspect and detect defects or anomalies in products. AOI systems use...

Lensless microscopy, also known as computational or holographic microscopy, is an imaging technique that captures and reconstructs microscopic images without the use of traditional lenses. Instead of...

A computer-generated hologram (CGH) is a holographic image produced using computational methods and algorithms, rather than traditional optical techniques. CGHs are generated entirely in digital form...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at MIT run by Dr. Dirk Englund. Dr. Englund's group, the Quantum Photonics Group, is made up of postdocs and...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Trade Show in Austin, Texas, as new photonics innovations hit the show floor of the Austin Convention Center....

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...

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. is a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic,...

Andor Technology Ltd is a global developer and manufacturer of high-performance scientific cameras, microscopy systems and spectrographs for academic, government, and industrial applications. Founded...

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

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...