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NEWS
February 2012
ESA Pursues 3-D Imaging Lidar
The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing 3-D imaging lidar as a navigation aid for deep-space exploration. lidar operates in the same fashion as radar but with shorter wavelengths since it...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/ESA_Pursues_3-D_Imaging_Lidar/p5/a50175
NEWS
January 2023
Research Project Seeks to Standardize Lidar Tests
A national group formed by Paul McManamon of Exciting Technology, in conjunction with SPIE, is working to develop standardized tests to evaluate lidar technologies. Despite their crucial role in both...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Research_Project_Seeks_to_Standardize_Lidar_Tests/p5/a68698
NEWS
February 2023
Lidar Methods Combine for Nonmechanical, Compact Solution
In a newly developed lidar system, researchers at Kyoto University integrated 3D flash and beam-scanning laser light sources to create a 3D, nonmechanical lidar system. The system can measure the...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_Methods_Combine_for_Nonmechanical_Compact/p5/a68792
NEWS
May 2018
Lidar Helps Yellowstone Manage Threatened Ecosystem
lidar could offer a fast, efficient way to locate and capture lake trout, an invasive non-native fish that is upending the ecosystem in Yellowstone Lake. Aircraft-mounted lidar could allow lake...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_Helps_Yellowstone_Manage_Threatened/p5/a63485
WEBINAR
January 2022
FMCW and TOF Flash Automotive Lidar: Challenges and Prospects
A vision of self-driving cars propels research and development for automotive lidar, vital hardware providing distance and velocity information about car surroundings. Among several lidar...

https://www.photonics.com/Webinars/FMCW_and_TOF_Flash_Automotive_Lidar_Challenges/w564
FEATURE ARTICLE
March 2021
What Is Photonics?
Photonics is the study of light and other types of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The impact of photonics on research, technology, navigation, culture, astronomy, forensics, and...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/What_Is_Photonics/p4/a65926
NEWS
September 1998
New Lasers Push Space-Based Lidar
The researchers at the 19th International Laser Radar Conference focused their attention on new lasers for space-based lidar to study atmospheric chemistry and physics. lidar, which can be rugged...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/New_Lasers_Push_Space-Based_Lidar/p5/a2571
NEWS
October 2005
Lidar Spots Bomb-Sniffing Honeybees
Bees aren’t busy just for the sake of being busy. The constant foraging for pollen by honeybees enables the hive to exist. This industriousness also has been proposed as a means to locate land...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_Spots_Bomb-Sniffing_Honeybees/p5/a23152
FEATURE ARTICLE
January 2013
Beyond Recycling: Using Photonics to Save the Planet
Historically, the environment has paid a heavy price whenever innovation or technological advances have taken place. But times are changing, and today, modernization seldom occurs without the...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Beyond_Recycling_Using_Photonics_to_Save_the/p5/a52907
WHITE PAPER
November 2020
Laser Sources for LiDAR Applications
RPMC has published an extensive amount of educational content on the fundamentals of lidar and lidar applications, including self-driving cars, windspeed monitoring, and active night vision imaging...

https://www.photonics.com/White_Papers/Laser_Sources_for_LiDAR_Applications/wpp1919
NEWS
August 2024
Adaptive Sensors Optimize Indoor Transmissions for Smart City Networks
Through various information and communication technologies, smart cities provide services like education, medical care, safety, transportation, and utilities. Many of the services that smart cities...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Adaptive_Sensors_Optimize_Indoor_Transmissions/p5/a70212
COMPANY
Ortel, A Photonics Foundries Co.
Ortel offers high-speed analog devices for today’s evolving wireless networks. Our portfolio also features high-performance sensing products for lidar and industrial applications with world...

https://www.photonics.com/Buyers_Guide/Ortel/c11238
FEATURE ARTICLE
June 2021
Photonics Scores a Touchdown for Space Exploration
As the Apollo 11 astronauts were initiating the first human-crewed landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong looked out of the module’s small window and, rather than observing a relatively flat...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Photonics_Scores_a_Touchdown_for_Space_Exploration/p5/a67045
NEWS
December 2022
Lidar Firm Innoviz Establishes Industry Partnership with Outsight
lidar sensor and perception software producer Innoviz Technologies has established a partnership with fellow lidar technology company Outsight Technologies — a developer of real-time 3D lidar...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_Firm_Innoviz_Establishes_Industry/p5/a68593
NEWS
November 2022
Lidar Companies Velodyne, Ouster Agree to Merge
Digital lidar company Ouster and lidar sensors and solutions developer Velodyne lidar have entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction. The combination reportedly brings...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_Companies_Velodyne_Ouster_Agree_to_Merge/p5/a68493
FEATURE ARTICLE
June 2024
Photonics Charts Its Course in Helping Athletes Reach Peak Performance
Michael Matter’s journey into sports technology began with a golf ball. More specifically, a photo of a golf ball that was captured at its precise moment of impact with a club head. The photo...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Photonics_Charts_Its_Course_in_Helping_Athletes/p5/a69962
NEWS
December 2020
RIT Scientists Receive Grants for Waveform Lidar, Remote Sensing Projects
Imaging scientists at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) this month received nearly $400,000 in grants to support three projects aimed at improving the way scientists can use waveform lidar...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/RIT_Scientists_Receive_Grants_for_Waveform_Lidar/p5/a66538
NEWS
September 2017
Doppler Lidar Could Aid Weather Forecasting, Aircraft Safety
A dual-frequency direct detection Doppler lidar system could offer a simplified yet robust way to accurately measure wind speed. The detailed, real-time wind measurements provided by the system could...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Doppler_Lidar_Could_Aid_Weather_Forecasting/p5/a62512
NEWS
May 2012
Lidar Maps Faults Near Lake Tahoe
Faults west of Lake Tahoe, Calif., now pose a substantial increase in the seismic hazard assessment and potentially could generate earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 6.3 to 6.9, according to a...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_Maps_Faults_Near_Lake_Tahoe/p5/a50977
NEWS
March 2000
Lidar Technique Refines Aerosol Data
Measuring the impact of man-made aerosols on global climate change may become a little more accurate, thanks to a new device termed a 180° backscatter nephelometer. The device, developed by...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_Technique_Refines_Aerosol_Data/p5/a5810