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Thermal Imaging Takes the Temperature of New Applications Mar 5, 2021 — While thermal infrared imaging technology was once limited to defense and government-funded applications, it has become more mainstream over the past few decades. The growing awareness of the technology’s industrial benefits has primarily been driven by the increasing popularity of hand-held thermal cameras for maintenance and electrical troubleshooting. Then came the COVID-19 crisis last year, and with it an onslaught of thermal imaging solutions flooded the market. A variety of thermal...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2021
Worsening Wildfires Spark Photonics Demand and Innovations Mar 2, 2021 — In October 2016, a downed powerline sparked a wildfire that raged for two weeks and destroyed more than 18,000 acres in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests west of Pueblo, Colo. The so-called Junkins fire ended up destroying nine homes and 17...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2021
Photonics Reduces Size, Weight, and Power for Defense Systems Mar 1, 2021 — Many modern troops go to battle carrying up to 80 lbs of gear per soldier. Approximately 20 lbs of this weight can come from batteries for radios and electro-optics. Reducing a soldier’s burden improves mobility and mission effectiveness and reduces...
Photonics Spectra, Apr 2021
Embedded Vision Is Streamlined for Application on a Massive Scale Jan 28, 2021 — Compact, efficient, and highly application specific, embedded vision technology increasingly offers performance and price points that would have been impossible to achieve only a few years ago. The steady advancement in capabilities has been driven...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2021
3D Imaging Sees Growth in Multiple Dimensions Jan 4, 2021 — From time to time, we all find ourselves forced to rummage through the cluttered jumble of our home “junk drawer” to dig out a screwdriver, battery, paper clip, or other much-needed object. For humans, this is merely cause for fleeting...
Photonics Spectra, Feb 2021
Lidar and Data Fusion Increase AI Performance Dec 11, 2020 — Imaging lidar sensors are one of the primary components in systems used for perception tasks in autonomous vehicles. The 3D data generated by lidar while a vehicle is in motion is considered useful because such data is the result of measuring...
EuroPhotonics, Mar 2021
High-Speed Imaging Capabilities and Applications Expand Dec 8, 2020 — Fast and efficient delivery of product into the customer’s hands is the endgame in manufacturing. Any defect that occurs as products progress along the manufacturing line may be magnified, which can cause bottlenecks in production or require...
Photonics Spectra, Jan 2021
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Capturing Solar Images in the Extreme Environment of Space Oct 28, 2020 — Imagine trying to take pictures or make optical measurements on a cloudless day beneath the blistering onslaught of 13 suns. This is the equivalent reality for the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Solar Orbiter and NASA’s Parker...
Photonics Spectra, Dec 2020
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Exploring the Role of High-Purity Laser Light in Quantum Technology Oct 6, 2020 — A second quantum revolution is underway. The first revolution relied on an understanding of the wave-particle duality of electrons and photons, and led to the information age of smartphones, the internet, and supercomputers. Inventions of the second...
Photonics Spectra, Dec 2020
Earth Imaging Reveals the True State of Land, Sea, and Air Sep 23, 2020 — Stephen Hawking once said, “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.” This deep-seated urge to make sense of where we came from and to try to understand what makes the universe tick is a defining aspect of what makes...
Photonics Spectra, Nov 2020
Biological Systems Inspire Image Preprocessing Solutions Aug 31, 2020 — Data, as the saying goes, is king. But as any chess player knows, the king without his minions is hamstrung by limited mobility. The ubiquitous deployment of CMOS and CCD imagers across a range of industries and applications has generated an...
Vision Spectra, Dec 2020
New Tools Promise the Next Big Thing for Quantum Sensing Aug 31, 2020 — Sensors form an important foundation for many everyday devices, including microphones, CCD cameras, and touch sensors in smartphone displays. Moreover, sensors play a key role in technological progress, in general, as illustrated by the old adage...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 2020
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Drones Deliver a Fresh Take on Airborne Imaging Applications Aug 27, 2020 — Initially swooping in to provide aerial shots in big-budget movies, UAVs — or drones, in consumer parlance — are now bringing aerial cinematography technology to other applications. Drone-mounted imagers are helping to inspect infrastructure,...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 2020
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How Vision Systems Can Deliver More than the Sum of Their Parts Aug 25, 2020 — The use of both 3D-imaging technology and smart cameras is expanding the flexibility and capabilities of machine vision systems. Integrating these elements with advanced image preprocessing and intelligent software can further enable automated...
Photonics Spectra, Oct 2020
Vision Systems Perform Vital Checks on Medical Devices Jul 30, 2020 — Medical device manufacturing encompasses products that go inside the body, such as catheters and artificial joints. Other manufactured goods in this category include external devices that measure vital signs and other medically important parameters,...
Vision Spectra, Sep 2020
Photonics for Atomic Sensors Jun 23, 2020 — Measurements of isolated atomic systems have provided reliable means to standardize time and frequency, determine fundamental constants with unprecedented precision, and measure small electromagnetic fields and inertial forces. In particular, atomic...
Photonics Spectra, Aug 2020
All-Optical Switching Alternatives for Data Processing May 28, 2020 — For decades, computer technology has steadily achieved astonishing gains in performance, but it is becoming increasingly unclear how much longer this rapid progress can continue without considerable technological innovation. For example, the...
Photonics Spectra, Jul 2020
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...
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
Fluorescence Microscopy: Getting the Picture Right Sep 18, 2019 — Fluorescence microscopy is a very broadly used term covering numerous applications. It ranges from basic life science applications such as time-lapse cell viability assays — in which dead cells are counted as they start to fluoresce by intrusion of...
BioPhotonics, Sep 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
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