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Image Sensors Power Embedded Vision Oct 25, 2019 — New imaging applications are booming: from collaborative robots in Industry 4.0 to drones that fight fires and monitor crops, from biometric face recognition to point-of-care hand-held medical devices at home. A key enabler in the emergence of these new applications is embedded vision, which has become more accessible than ever. Embedded vision is not a new concept; it simply defines systems that include a vision setup that controls and processes data without an external computer. Embedded
Photonics Spectra, Dec 2019
Laser Processing Brings Manufacturing to Next Level Oct 23, 2019 — Lasers are used in many industrial sectors for a wide variety of processes, including drilling, cutting, welding, and scribing, to optimize manufacturing and ensure high-quality components. Prices have fallen and, with the added application support...
EuroPhotonics, Dec 2019
Innovative Design of Optical Systems Boosts Industrial Metrology Jul 22, 2019 — Image sensor evolution has been extremely expansive since the first digital camera was created in 1975. In more recent years, increasing use of image sensors has rapidly driven camera chip evolution in many aspects: resolution, sensitivity,...
Photonics Spectra, Dec 2019
Display Manufacturing Enriches Consumer Products Jul 16, 2019 — Consumer electronics are growing more sophisticated, at breakneck speed and with remarkable advancements in technology and refinement. A highly visible example is the ever-increasing picture clarity in large-screen TVs, and in the evolution of...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2019
Demand for Versatile CMOS Sensors Continues to Grow Jul 12, 2019 — Twenty-five years ago, physicist and engineer Eric Fossum predicted the end of the charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging sensor. Fossum, a Dartmouth University professor who was then at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab just north of Pasadena, Calif.,...
Photonics Spectra, Sep 2019
For Carmakers, Inspection Flexibility Makes the Difference Jul 11, 2019 — Building a car is a complex process, and it’s getting more complex every year. There are thousands of parts to inspect for quality and conformance to ever tighter specifications. What’s more, these parts must be tracked, and variations...
Vision Spectra, Sep 2019
Fiber Optic Sensors Compete in Environmental Monitoring Market Jul 10, 2019 — Modern societies are facing rising concerns about global environmental issues, including an alarming rise in pollution of our seas, waterways, land, and air. As we bear witness to widespread industrialization along with mass consumption trends,...
EuroPhotonics, Sep 2019
Great Expectations for Vision-Guided Robotics Jun 15, 2019 — As the manufacturing world considers the potential for Industry 4.0, machine vision for industrial robotic guidance continues to be a critical enabling technology for realizing the diverse needs of flexible automation and smart manufacturing,...
Vision Spectra, Jun 2019
Innovations in Flow Cytometry Expand Its Use in Clinical Diagnostics Jun 12, 2019 — The outstanding achievements of immunologists James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo — winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation — are at the forefront of an...
BioPhotonics, Aug 2019
LASER World of PHOTONICS 2019: An Innovation Playground Apr 10, 2019 — With a first-rate portfolio, LASER World of PHOTONICS (Laser Munich) is a one-stop shop for research and technology, industry, and academia — showcasing numerous photonics components, systems, and applications. The biennial conference and...
BioPhotonics, Jun 2019
Ever-Vigilant: Machine Learning and AI Move into Surveillance Apr 4, 2019 — The business of surveillance, whether by still or video camera, is booming. It’s being driven by military, industrial, and commercial customers as well as consumers. According to a report by BIS Research1, the video portion of the market will...
Vision Spectra, Jun 2019
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Imaging in the Blink of an Eye Feb 27, 2019 — CMOS cameras and sensors are getting faster. That’s good news for researchers and for the autonomous vehicles market, among others. For researchers, faster imaging enhances spectroscopy, improves resolution, and makes it easier to capture...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2019
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Innovations in Machine Vision Bolster Food Inspection Feb 7, 2019 — Machine vision has long been employed effectively in packaging inspection, where barcode readers and cameras verify that boxes are properly labeled. Increasingly, vision is playing a critical role in food processing. Automated inspection systems can...
Vision Spectra, Mar 2019
CMOS Imaging: From Industry to Consumer and Back Again Jan 25, 2019 — Technology often advances unnoticed. Incremental improvements may only be seen by insiders in industries that a technology already calls home. Sometimes it achieves a breakthrough point and whole societies can change as a result. This often happens...
EuroPhotonics, Mar 2019
Optics Improvements Prompt Enhanced Component Parameters Jan 22, 2019 — For defense and security applications, size matters. So do weight, power, and cost. These four parameters are often referred to as SWaP-C, a key concept that drives the manufacture of defense and security systems, sensors, and optical components....
EuroPhotonics, Mar 2019
Measuring NIR Sources for Safe and Accurate 3D Sensing Jan 16, 2019 — 3D sensing with NIR wavelengths has taken off in the past several years, with use in such applications as facial and gesture recognition, eye tracking, and automotive vision systems such as lidar. The market for these optical sensing systems is...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2019
Prism Award Finalists Vie for 2019 Honors Dec 6, 2018 — The Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation bring anticipation and excitement each year to the Photonics West exhibition in San Francisco. Renowned as the “Oscars of the photonics industry,” the Prism Awards shine a spotlight on some of...
BioPhotonics, Jan 2019
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Wearable Sensors Challenge Traditional Medical Technology Dec 4, 2018 — From Apple to Fitbit to Garmin to Google, in the U.S. alone, dozens of companies are producing wearable sensors that record our movements as well as basic health information. Many of these devices rely on optical telemetry to read information about...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2019
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For Self-Driving Cars, Sensors Galore Oct 26, 2018 — Self-driving cars bring both opportunities and challenges to photonics-based sensors. Autonomous vehicles will need dozens of sensors ofmany types — lidar, camera, radar, and ultrasonic — and many sensors on millions of vehicles make the...
Photonics Spectra, Dec 2018
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Display Manufacturing Enriches High-Tech Products Oct 24, 2018 — Consumer electronics are growing more sophisticated, at breakneck speed and with remarkable advances in technology and refinement. A highly visible example is the ever-increasing picture clarity in large-screen TVs, and in the evolution of...
EuroPhotonics, Dec 2018
Smartphone Spectroscopy Takes the Lab to the People Sep 17, 2018 — By 2020, the number of smartphone users in the world is expected to reach almost 2.9 billion — nearly doubling in six years from about 1.6 billion in 2014. Technology companies and researchers have been directly and indirectly imbuing...
BioPhotonics, Oct 2018
Emerging Applications Drive Image Sensor Innovations Aug 23, 2018 — CMOS sensors are being taken for a ride. Forecasts call for image sensor market growth to be driven by automobiles, with increasing use of lidar, cameras, and sensors. To not hit a stop sign, though, vendors need to up product performance and cut...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 2018
OCT Promising as Clear Point-of-Care Solution Aug 13, 2018 — Medical devices at the point of care allow clinicians to do what they do best: determine a patient’s exact condition and a course of treatment. These technologies work best when they fit seamlessly into the provider-patient workflow without a...
BioPhotonics, Sep 2018
Continuously Variable Bandpass Filters Aid Optics and HSI May 14, 2018 — Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has been in use for a couple of decades in applications such as satellite imaging and air reconnaissance. Despite its widespread use, there is a lack of clarity of what “hyperspectral” encompasses. Sometimes techniques...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2018
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Point-of-Care Optics Helps Halt the Spread of Infectious Diseases May 10, 2018 — Early diagnosis is the critical starting point to a better outcome for a patient. It allows effective treatment to start earlier, giving the patient the best possible prognosis. Prompt diagnosis also reduces the potential spread of infection,...
BioPhotonics, Aug 2018
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