PI Alignment System Named R&D 100 Finalist

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight has communicated with mission controllers and confirmed it is healthy after launching Dec. 11 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The satellite embarked on a...

Physik Instrumente (PI) has established an “innovation hub” in Karlsruhe, Germany, as the company looks to intensify its cooperation with leading universities and research institutions....

The U.S. government has awarded Intel Corporation up to $3 billion to support the manufacturing of microelectronics and ensure access to a domestic supply chain of advanced semiconductors for...

Photodiodes, the core component of image sensors, are indispensable in countless applications. Silicon is a favored material for crafting these components, but its sensitivity in the NIR range had...

The P-725.1CDE1S and P-725.4CDE1S from PI are nano-focus scanner packages for applications including surface metrology, super-resolution microscopy, light sheet microscopy, and digital slide scanning...

The N-332 family from PI are nanometer-precision linear stages designed for applications in semiconductor technology, fiber optics, microscopy, bio-nanotechnology, metrology, and scientific research...

The P-545 PInano® family from PI is a piezo stage family for applications including biological imaging, semiconductor inspection, photonics testing, particle tracking, 3D imaging, and...

The V-574 family from PI is a series of linear positioning stages for applications such as optics inspection, metrology, photonics, interferometry, and semiconductor test equipment. The stages are...

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,...

Since their invention in the late 1960s, charge-coupled devices, also called CCDs, have found widespread use in imaging applications. Electronic cameras based on CCD technology are used in...

The applications where rapid detection of light is a must are many. They include a wide variety: semiconductor inspection, gene sequencing, oil well logging and high-energy physics. The reasons for...

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...

Technologies that leverage terahertz radiation have potential to be used in areas such as imaging, security, nondestructive testing, and quality assurance. However, these exciting technological...

The Cricket™² is a plug & play camera image intensifier attachment enabling low light level imaging and extreme high shutter speeds for CMOS and CCD cameras. The Cricket™² fitted with a single MCP...

Fiber Optic Gyro Coil - The Core components of FOG used in inertial navigation field.

Precise and sensitive phase detections are often required for impedance and optics-based measurements. For example, measuring the phase shift between current and voltage reveals the complex impedance...

This webinar will present the latest advancements in precision motion control techniques, system architecture, software, algorithms, hardware, and mechanisms for system designers in the laser...

With a focus on high-throughput/high-yield positioning and microrobotic solutions for leading-edge manufacturing, Scott Jordan and Matt Price from Physik Instrumente (PI) will present the latest...

Alignment time is the largest contributor to the cost of silicon photonics and optical assemblies. New industrial automation technology dramatically shortens the time required to optimally align...

Lidar for autonomous vehicles. Virtual reality for immersive entertainment and new interactive applications. Wearable health sensors. Photonic computing — computation by propagation. Quantum...

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...

GigE, short for gigabit Ethernet, refers to a standard for high-speed Ethernet communication, capable of transmitting data at rates of up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps), or 1000 megabits per second...

A photovoltaic cell, commonly known as a solar cell, is a semiconductor device that directly converts light energy into electrical energy through the photovoltaic effect. The photovoltaic effect is...

A passive optical network (PON) is a telecommunications network architecture that uses optical fibers and passive optical components to provide high-speed broadband services to end-users. In a PON...

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Designer and manufacturer of 3D laser triangulation sensors, SmartRay, had on display its new line of ECCO X sensors at VISION. Fast, flexible, and compact, the ECCO X offers speeds up to 40 khz,...

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...

SUNY Albany will become the home of the new Center for Biophotonic Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Teledyne Technologies is expanding after acquiring contracts from Excelitas. IonQ is in the...

A CCD image sensor is a type of electronic device used to convert optical images into electronic signals. It consists of an array of light-sensitive pixels, each capable of converting photons (light)...

An infrared detector is a device that is used to detect and measure infrared radiation, which lies beyond the visible spectrum of light. These detectors are utilized in various applications,...

PI provides the broadest and deepest portfolio of precision motion technologies worldwide— including linear motors, air bearings, piezo drives, gantries, nanopositioning stages, and hexapod...

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

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...

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),...