Micronic Wins Order for TFT-Display Pattern Generator

Many products, including some that are indispensable to modern society, experience widespread adoption before consequential health and safety risks emerge. Sometimes these adverse effects are...

SiLC Technologies has received an investment from Honda to develop next-generation frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) lidar solutions for mobility applications. SiLC is a developer of...

Organic-based optoelectronics have the potential to provide an energy-efficient way to operate low-power indoor devices and wireless IoT sensors. Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) and organic...

The skin-like displays under development for future wearable electronics can be based on passive- or active-matrix designs. Active-matrix designs, however, provide better spatial resolution and...

The Evergreen-30 from Vector Atomic is a fully integrated optical clock offering 25 femtosecond stability at one second, and multi-day, sub-nanosecond holdover. The 29 L rackmount instrument outputs...

The Sunlight R290 from Senseair is a gas sensor for refrigerant leak detection in HVAC systems. The sensor uses non-dispersive infrared technology with LED light sources and photodiode sensors to...

The RANGE 2 from Revopoint 3D is a 3D scanner meant for capturing scans of large objects in quality control, reverse engineering, automobile modification, and prototyping applications. The scanner...

Emberion Oy’s SWIR sensor combines Emberion’s quantum dot sensor technology and wafer-level packaging for applications such as automotive, consumer electronics, AR/VR, and drones. The...

Laser diodes vary widely in their wavelengths, powers, spectra and beam quality. Yet they share two fundamental components with all other lasers: an optical amplifier and a resonator that confines...

Excimers are pulsed gas lasers that deliver high output power and pulse energies in the ultraviolet and deep-ultraviolet wavelengths. This enables them to power applications that cannot be supported...

Photonics Rules of Thumb Scientists and engineers tend to want to answer simple relational questions with a blackboard covered with equations, even when questioners just want a rough estimate to...

The use of precision polymer optics is becoming an increasing necessity today as products demand sophisticated light handling components to achieve desired results. Polymer optics can be thought of...

By harnessing the power of “good data” over “big data,” manufacturers with limited data sets can harness the power of deep learning by using machine vision for quality...

AR/VR/XR is becoming more widespread, creating new consumer and enterprise experiences. As the technology expands, AR/VR/XR headsets are becoming imbued with increasingly advanced functionality....

Microdisplays are essential for wearable AR/VR/MR devices, such as smart glasses. Emissive microdisplays, such as OLEDs or micro-LEDs, provide significant advantages in terms of form factor and power...

VCSELs have increasingly become a fixture in smartphone and consumer electronic applications such as proximity sensing or face recognition, and recent advancements have only made these compact lasers...

Data analysis software is a category of software tools used for the systematic examination of data sets to uncover patterns, trends, relationships, and insights. It supports a range of analytical...

Micro-LED (micro-light-emitting diode) refers to a technology that involves the use of very small light-emitting diodes to create displays and lighting systems. These LEDs are miniature versions of...

A technical specification for a consumer product drawn up by Sony and Philips. CD/I combines audio, video and text recorded as interleaved channels on a disc similar to an audio compact disc. The...

Gyroscopy refers to the principles and applications of gyroscopes, devices that measure or maintain orientation based on the principles of angular momentum. Gyroscopes are essential in various...

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...

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...

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...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...