SPIE Names 2024 Society Award Winners

Seven early-stage startup companies have been selected to compete for a top prize of $10,000 at the 14th annual SPIE Startup Challenge at Photonics West on Jan. 30. The SPIE Startup Challenge is a...

SPIE’s Awards Committee has named the recipients of its annual awards, recognizing achievements and service in photonics research, education, and industry. The awards span a broad range of...

Leaders from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) awarded a $5 million state grant to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) to help create an open-access additive...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has named 47 fellows of the society, comprising the organization’s class of 2024. Fellows are members of SPIE who have made significant...

The HIGHvision machine vision system for laser welding heads from Coherent Corp. improves the efficiency of manufacturing electric vehicle batteries and motors. The turnkey system consists of...

OSI Optoelectronics is a leading provider of advanced optoelectronics and electronic assemblies. These technical elements are key to enabling critical functions such as analytics and monitoring, test...

Picometer Roughness Measurements on Large Curved Samples — Nanosurf’s solutions go beyond the typical metrology tools. For large, heavy, curved samples, determining critical dimensions...

The ILMS is designed for profiling focused, high-power industrial lasers and combines reimaging/magnification optics, a beam sampler, and a beam profiler to measure small beam waists which would...

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...

When purchasing an industrial laser system, the astute buyer will look for a Class 1 laser product — a system where the laser beam hazard is completely enclosed and there is no potential laser...

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,...

Given the pace at which technology advances, there always seems to be a learning curve. With the abundance of consumer electronics available, there typically is no right or wrong way to use these...

ZEISS PGS 2.5 spectrometer is a high-quality NIR spectroscopy solution, covering a broad wavelength range of 1200 - 2450 nm with a spectral dispersion of 5 nm/pixel. It uses advanced InGaAs sensor...

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Sapphire is a tough optical material resistant to chemicals, scratching, and high pressure in many diverse environments and has exceptional transparency. Frequently it is the combination of two, or...

Wideband or narrowband filters from the VIS to MWIR.

LASER COMPONENTS brings together some of the brightest minds in the industry for a one-hour workshop. Doctoral students from MIT, Princeton University, and Stanford University share how they are...

Visionary science fiction books and movies have been accurately predicting future innovations for years! DeGroote Nelson explores science fiction prophecies that have become reality thanks to optics...

The technical data sheet, the most basic form of communication about lens specification in the industry, should provide an objective and uniform key to helping buyers understand the tolerances...

Photoacoustic imaging offers "x-ray vision" to see beyond tool tips and underneath tissue during surgical procedures, yet no ionizing x-rays are required. Instead, optical fibers and acoustic...

A ytterbium laser is a type of solid-state laser that employs ytterbium ions (Yb³?) as the dopant in the gain medium. These lasers are known for their high efficiency, broad absorption and...

Rockwell hardness (Rc) refers to a method for measuring the hardness of a material, primarily metals, using an indentation test. It is named after the Rockwell scale, which was developed by Stanley...

A display standard no longer in use and originally defined for IBM PCs, with 640 3 480 pixels in 16 colors and a 4:3 aspect ratio. There is also a text mode with 720 3 400 pixels. The standard has...

A CubeSat is a type of miniaturized satellite characterized by its standardized size and modular design. CubeSats are typically used for scientific research, technology demonstration, educational...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you to central Massachusetts as Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Quinsigamond Community College take on a comprehensive joint photonics laboratory...

Tune into this month's edition of Light Matters for 'Part 1' of an exclusive interview with SPIE CEO, Eugene Arthurs, as he speaks about his upcoming retirement. We’ll also take you to Rochester,...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you on a brief tour of the Higgins Laboratories at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Quinsigamond Community College and WPI received a $4M grant...

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...

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