Corning Completes Telescope Mirror Blank

Current 3D-printing techniques for fabricating glass involve time-consuming processes that require high temperatures and considerable resources to complete. In a new approach, a research team...

Using graphene as the emission source, researchers at AMO GmbH worked with other European universities to develop a MIR emitter for integrated photonic gas sensors. The researchers integrated...

The need for modern technologies to dismantle existing underwater infrastructure is growing due to increasing demand for renewable energy sources. For example, to bring a wind power plant in the sea...

A new approach to guiding and controlling light, based on the process of diffusion, can enhance light transmission by orders of magnitude, even along curved trajectories. The diffusion waveguiding...

The LRM-292 pyroelectric detector from InfraTec GmbH is a multi-channel detector with an integrated operational amplifier, thermal compensation, and TO46 housing. Measuring 4.7 mm in diameter,...

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 Ophir® BeamWatch® Plus noncontact beam profiling system from MKS Instruments Inc. is designed for measuring focus shift, focus spot size, and position of high-power industrial lasers...

The Helix 511 Edge Computer from OnLogic is a compact and fanless device designed for use in challenging industrial environments such as manufacturing, automation, and energy management. The...

An optical time-domain reflectometer sends short pulses of light into a fiber and measures its reflections as a function of time. The delay of these reflections to the detector as well as their...

In the search for ever-higher pixel counts for the digital still camera, it is clear that, if chip size remains constant, then “more pixels” means “smaller pixels.” The...

Reflected-ultraviolet imaging is a rather mysterious area of the imaging field. There is relatively little actual UV imagery to be found on the Internet or in the literature compared to near-infrared...

Just as an electronic connector provides a pluggable connection between electronic circuits, a fiber optic connector provides an optical one. The goal is joining a fiber to a transmitter, receiver or...

Nature offers us a full assortment of atoms, but quantum engineering is required to put them together in an elegant way to realize functional structures not found in nature. A particularly rich...

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...

Multiphoton imaging in neuroscience has much evolved from the initial two-photon microscope that Winfried Denk built in Watt Webb’s lab at Cornell University in the late 1980s, which made the...

A new generation of thermal high-speed laser energy sensors based on laser-induced transverse voltage (LITV) has been used to measure and characterize pulse-by-pulse energy of fast and ultrafast...

Radiation used to excite an optical or laser material to a higher energy level. See optical pumping.

The optical energy transfer between ions of differing atoms.

The term "Rydberg atom" refers to an atom in a highly excited state where one or more of its electrons are in a Rydberg orbital. A Rydberg atom is characterized by having an electron orbit that is...

Collisional absorption of energy that occurs in inertial confinement fusion systems when hydrodynamic expansion of the plasma causes an electron passing through the field of an ion to absorb...

MoviTHERM's Solar-CHECK solution uses lockin thermography to inspect for electrical shunts and other defects in thin-film as well as in thick-film photo-voltaic cells. The cells can either be excited...

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....

In this episode, we take you to a U.S. National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Researchers there are leading the charge for "smart"...

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...

A scintillation detector is a radiation detection device that utilizes scintillation crystals to detect and measure ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays, x-rays, or charged particles. It consists...

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

Oxford Instruments provides market-leading scientific technology and expertise to academic and commercial organizations worldwide. Oxford Instruments provides diverse solutions across photonics...

Precision Optical: our name embodies who we are. Since 1959, Precision Optical has earned a widely recognized reputation for reliability, value, and quality precision optics for the most demanding...

Ophir is a brand within the MKS Instruments Light & Motion division. The Ophir product portfolio consists of laser and LED measurement products, including laser power and energy meters, laser...