Tod Pike to Lead Canon Business Solutions

High-technology company TRUMPF plans to build a production facility in Pune, India. The company intends to invest €5 million ($5.4 million) in the facility, which will begin production later...

MicroCare, a manufacturer of chemicals and tools for critical cleaning, hired Marufur Rahim as technical director to oversee the company’s laboratory, research and development, and quality...

Peter de Groot, chief scientist at Zygo Corp., was elected to serve as the 2023 vice president of SPIE. The election brings de Groot into the SPIE presidential chain. He will serve as president-elect...

University of Rochester professor Julie Bentley has been elected to serve as the 2024 vice president of SPIE. With her election, Bentley joins the SPIE presidential chain and will serve as...

The MS-500 high-sensitivity Interchangeable-Lens Camera from Canon Inc. is equipped with a 1-in. single-photon avalanche diode sensor with a 3.2-MP pixel count. The camera is designed for...

While standard InGaAs detectors cover a spectral range from 900 to 1700 nm, ER-InGaAs detector sensitivity is shifted towards higher wavelengths up to 2200 nm, and this is a real breakthrough in SWIR...

The Ceres V 640 and Ceres V 1280 from Xenics BV are high-performance, longwave IR cameras that expand thermal imaging, sensing, and thermographic applications. The Ceres V 640 is based on the...

The newly upgraded TWV640 thermal camera core, using the Athena™ 640 focal plane, captures clear, complete, low-noise images through darkness, dust, smoke, and fog. Improved features include...

Superresolution optical microscopy, for which the Nobel Prize was awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, and William Moerner in 2014, has been one of the most momentous developments in the life...

The term fluorescence is often applied as a synonym for photoluminescence, although luminescence actually covers fluorescence and phosphorescence. Both of these terms describe the process of...

Hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy has developed dramatically from a large, complex, remote-sensing satellite- or aircraft-based system into a rugged, compact, economically priced imaging and...

There is a growing market for imaging systems that provides an immediate, slow-motion view of a process that allows one to see events that happen too quickly for the human eye to perceive or...

Heterometallic metal halide hybrids hold great promise due to the potential for synergistic photo-physical properties depending on the choice of the constituent metal centres. In this application...

As the automotive industry continues to push the boundaries of innovation, the need for advanced technologies becomes increasingly paramount. Spectroscopy has been a game-changer in various domains...

The modulation transfer function, or MTF, is a parameter used to evaluate the performance of a lens. MTF provides a quantitative and standardized way to characterize optical systems, so the metric is...

Hardware is the common first step in developing a vision system. However, without the proper software support, challenges will quickly mount. Any organization with a need for a long-term vision...

Vision and imaging technology is critically important to the automation solutions that are driving improvements in our lives. The capabilities of hardware and software are enabling some of the most...

Additional Questions and Answers from the Webinar are below: With more than 6 billion cell phone users in the world, the majority of them in developing countries, there are opportunities for...

In this webinar, presenter Giacomo Vacca, Ph.D., founder and president of Kinetic River, will discuss recent advances in time-resolved methods of flow cytometry and how these advances are being...

Researchers from around the world presented their latest work at “Biophotonic Imaging for Medicine: A Digital Conference.” Presentations focused on a range of light-based imaging and...

Infrared optics refer to optical components and systems designed to manipulate and control infrared (IR) light, which lies beyond the visible spectrum. These components are crucial for various...

An EMCCD (electron-multiplying charge-coupled device) camera is a type of scientific camera specifically designed for low-light imaging applications that require high sensitivity and fast readout...

Diamond turning refers to a precision machining process used to produce complex optical components, particularly lenses and mirrors, from materials such as metals, plastics, and crystalline materials...

A nanotube, also known as a nanotubule or simply a tube-like structure, is a nanoscale cylindrical structure composed of various materials, including carbon, boron nitride, or other compounds....

Random Bin Picking in Mass Production: Canon's advanced 3D Machine Vision guides a robot to pick and place resin molded printer parts which are randomly piled in mass production line.

-Telerobotics -3-D Distant Imaging -Zapping addiction This week on Light Matters: telerobots give doctors "surgical superpowers,” photon counting is used for depth imaging, a laser zaps away cocaine...

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

The changing nature of the "optics shop" — and, more broadly, its role in the optics and photonics industry today — is an effective gauge for tracking how optics workforce development is aligned to...

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is a compact and integrated device that incorporates multiple photonic components and functions on a single chip, similar to the way electronic integrated circuits...

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

Reynard Corporation has been a premier supplier of custom optics and thin-film coatings to a global customer base since 1984. Reynard focuses on manufacturing the highest quality products with...

Teledyne Judson Technologies (TJT) is a global leader for IR sensors from the Visible to VLWIR spectrum. Two-dimensional FPAs (InGaAs, InSb, and MCT) and Integrated Dewar Cooler Assemblies (IDCAs)...

Founded in 1971, Edinburgh Instruments Ltd. is a global provider of sophisticated, state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation for optical spectroscopy. We design and manufacture a range of...