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Murad Alam was introduced as president of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery during the annual business meeting on April 15. Alam is vice-chair of dermatology; professor of...

New Scale Technologies appointed Scott Wisotzke director of sales for its New Scale Robotics division. The appointment expands the division’s sales team to capture opportunities in the...

Lightwave Logic, Inc., a developer of electro-optic polymers for data communications, has appointed Thomas M. Connelly Jr. to its board of directors. Connelly previously served as CEO of the American...

Empire State Development has named the 10 companies selected to participate in round seven of the Luminate NY accelerator program, investment fund, and competition. Each finalist will receive an...

The OptoTEC™ MSX series of micro multistage thermoelectric coolers from Laird Thermal Systems Inc. allows integration into various optical packages. The coolers, designed for miniature...

The Newport™ Replicated Freefrom Mirrors from MKS Instruments are nonrotationally symmetric reflective mirrors for use in analytical instruments, imaging systems, laser tracking, and...

The YLM-10LX from Lumotive and Hokuyo Automatic is a 3D lidar sensor for industrial automation and service robotics applications. Built with Lumotive’s light control metasurface optical...

The VT-Z600 and VT-S1040 automated optical inspection systems from Omron Automation Americas use advanced hardware and sophisticated image processing to deliver reliability and performance at...

One of the most critical elements of any time-resolved spectroscopy and dynamics experiment is the optical delay line. A typical optical delay line consists of a retroreflector or folding mirrors on...

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,...

The digital camera represents an integration of optics, mechanics and electronics consisting of three layers (Figures 1a, b and c). The top and the middle layers are printed circuit boards (PCBs),...

Technological advances have resulted in new, higher-quality sensors that enable machine vision cameras to deliver greater features and functionality at a lower cost than ever before. These factors...

MKS Newport spectral optics product overview providing a summary of competencies in diffraction gratings, optical filters, optical mirrors, OptoFlash multichannel spectrometer engines, and design &...

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...

In the rapidly evolving world of industrial machine vision, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has emerged as an invaluable tool, offering a wealth of information for various applications. This white paper...

Today’s vision systems have many advantages if you have the right lens for the job. Applications such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), bin picking, stereo vision, and agricultural monitoring all...

Photonics instrument development teams are facing increasing pressures to commercialize faster with fewer staff. Accelerated timelines require teams to focus on their core competency and look for...

Optical filters can discretely transmit or reject specific wavelengths or ranges of wavelengths of light. Utilizing this capability in photonics-based instruments creates the need for a better...

Imagine optical elements that rival lenses or mirrors superimposed with a precise pattern of microscopic periodic structures. These are diffraction gratings that can be used in a wide range of...

Quantum technology, an exciting and evolving field combining physics and engineering, applies the properties of quantum mechanics to next-generation computing applications. It has the potential to...

Optoelectronics is a branch of electronics that focuses on the study and application of devices and systems that use light and its interactions with different materials. The term "optoelectronics" is...

Ultraviolet (UV) fiber optics refers to optical fibers that are designed and optimized for the transmission of ultraviolet light, which is electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than...

A silicon photodiode is a semiconductor device that converts light into an electrical current. It is a type of photodetector specifically designed for detecting and measuring light intensity. Silicon...

Infrared coatings, also known as IR coatings, are specialized optical coatings designed to manipulate the transmission, reflection, and absorption of infrared (IR) radiation within a specific...

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...

Avantier delivers professional optical design consulting with innovative solutions by experienced engineers in custom design, analysis, modeling, and lens design. With over 50 years experience, our...

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...

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...

A scientific CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) camera is a type of digital camera specifically designed for scientific imaging applications. It employs CMOS sensor technology, which...

A machine vision lens is a specialized optical lens designed for use in machine vision systems, which are used for automated inspection, measurement, and quality control in industrial applications....

The LaCroix name is synonymous with quality precision optics. Since 1947, three generations of family leadership have guided LaCroix Precision Optics to become the premier precision optics...

Avantier Inc. is an unparalleled leader in providing innovative imaging systems solutions and optical systems solutions. We offer advance precision custom optical design, optical engineering...

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...

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