All Documents
Mon, Dec 22, 2025
Characterizing Single Mode Lensed Fibers
Lensed single-mode optical fibers can be used to enhance coupling efficiency in certain specific optical systems, including photonic integrated circuits (PICs), solid-state quantum light sources, high-speed detectors, endomicroscopic imaging, and other sensing applications such as optical probes...
Thorlabs Inc.
Mon, Dec 22, 2025
Theoretical Resolution from Analogue Noise
This Whitepaper goes in depth about the theoretical achievable resolution with an analogue encoder and how noise is the main limiting factor giving insights on how to overcome this obstacle.
SmarAct GmbH
Thu, Dec 18, 2025
Faraday Isolators for High-Power Lasers using Magneto-Optical Glass
Nippon Electric Glass (NEG) has developed advanced magneto-optical glass for high-power laser isolators. FM-02 offers a Verdet constant 1.7× higher than TGG, enabling compact isolators. For large-scale applications like laser fusion, NEG’s FM-03 achieves sizes up to 110×110 mm, delivering superior...
Nippon Electric Glass Co. Ltd.
Tue, Dec 16, 2025
Custom Micro/Nano Structures
This data sheet describes our capabilities to fabricate master molds and manufacture low volume replications of custom micro and nano structures.
Himax IGI Precision Ltd.
Mon, Dec 8, 2025
Self-Detecting Dual-Comb Spectroscopy with Injection-Locked QCLs
Researchers demonstrated a self-detecting mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy system using injection-locked Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs). By integrating detection within the laser chip, they eliminated bulky external photodetectors, reducing system size and sensitivity to vibration. Using RF...
Wavelength Electronics Inc.
Mon, Dec 8, 2025
Field of View in Field Spectroscopy: Why it Matters (and what you might be missing)
This paper explains why field of view is a critical but often overlooked factor in field spectroscopy. It outlines how FoV controls the actual ground area contributing to a measurement, how heterogeneity and directional effects introduce mixing and bias, and why mismatched footprints complicate...
Spectra Vista Corporation
Thu, Dec 4, 2025
Enabling Higher-Performance EO/IR Stabilization for Small Unmanned Aircraft Using Quartz MEMS IMUs Abstract
How can small, unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) deliver the precision and robustness required for modern reconnaissance, surveillance, and targeting missions, even under severe vibration, shock, and temperature conditions? Quartz MEMS IMUs, with their high SNR, low 1/f noise, exceptional linearity,...
EPSON America Inc., EPSON Robots
Tue, Dec 2, 2025
Correlative Imaging of 2D Material Heterostructures: Raman, Photoluminescence (PL) and Second Harmonic Generation (SHG)
This application note highlights the capabilities of the witec360 platform for correlative studies of two-dimensional (2D) materials. It explains how combining Raman microscopy with techniques such as photoluminescence and polarization-dependent second-harmonic generation (SHG) can provide detailed...
Oxford Instruments
Tue, Dec 2, 2025
Ultrafast Lasers Enable Simultaneous Two and Three-Photon Imaging for Rapid Cancer Diagnosis’
A new generation of compact ultrafast laser systems capable of simultaneous two- and three-photon microscopy offer exciting potential to accelerate biomedical research and clinical diagnostics. In this white paper we introduce the femtosecond laser which is helping enable such higher harmonic...
HUBNER Photonics GmbH
Mon, Nov 24, 2025
WaveCamD Preliminary Data Sheet
This data sheet introduces WaveCamD, DataRay’s Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor. Readers will discover how its precise wavefront measurement, flexible reconstruction methods, and user-friendly software enable faster, more accurate beam alignment, collimation, and optical diagnostics — streamlining...
DataRay Inc.
Wed, Nov 5, 2025
Enabling TRISO Metrology Using Mueller Matrix Imaging
This paper demonstrates how Mueller Matrix Imaging (MMI) enables fast, precise evaluation of TRISO fuel particle coatings. By comparing traditional Two-Modulator Generalized Ellipsometry (2MGEM) with the high-speed MMI system, it shows how polarization imaging rapidly detects coating defects,...
Hinds Instruments Inc.
Wed, Oct 1, 2025
Terahertz Communication Research
Terahertz (THz) communication research pushes beyond current GHz limits to enable data rates up to terabits per second. This note highlights recent breakthroughs, including record transmissions at carrier frequencies of 300–600 GHz, and introduces photonic tools like photomixers, tunable laser...
TOPTICA Photonics SE
Wed, Oct 1, 2025
Designing a Custom Fluorescence LED Illumination System
Automated imaging is transforming life science research, clinical diagnostics, and even industrial inspection - but not all components of an imaging system are equal. The light source may seem simple, yet it often defines system performance. This paper reveals why high-performance LED illumination...
CoolLED Ltd.
Tue, Sep 30, 2025
An Inflection Point in Optical Stabilization
Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOG) have long been essential in aerospace and defense for high-precision inertial measurement. However, advances in Quartz MEMS IMUs now offer smaller, more cost-effective alternatives in select applications, including payload stabilization. This paper explores how modern...
EPSON America Inc., EPSON Robots
Tue, Sep 30, 2025
Cracking the Black Plastic Challenge: How Mid-Wave Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging Transforms Industrial Recycling
This white paper explores how the Specim FX50 MWIR hyperspectral camera enables accurate identification and separation of black plastics, a long-standing challenge in recycling. It explains the advantages of hyperspectral imaging technology, integration into industrial sorting systems, and benefits...
Specim, Spectral Imaging Ltd.
Mon, Sep 29, 2025
Super-Resolution Microscopy
Super-resolution techniques enable imaging of specifically labeled molecules well beyond the optical diffraction limit, down to 20 nm laterally. With this enhanced resolving power, super-resolution microscopy methods allow the imaging and quantitative analysis of cellular dynamics and...
Bruker Nano Surfaces
Thu, Sep 25, 2025
Thickness Measurements of Opaque and Transparent Films or Coatings with WLI
Accurate control over film thickness and uniformity is essential for throughput and performance in the automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, medical, and research industries. The modern standard for 3D, non-contact measurements of surface topography and texture is white light interferometry (WLI),...
Bruker Nano Surfaces
Wed, Sep 17, 2025
Precision Drilling for Electronics & Semiconductors
The demand for precision drilling in the semiconductor industry is currently growing. This trend is being driven by several factors, with the largest growth areas being the escalating demand/adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and the push globally towards supply chain diversification. Both of...
Novanta Photonics, Precision Medicine & Manufacturing
Tue, Sep 9, 2025
Wafer Waste Reduction: Femtum's Laser Trimming Redefines Photonic Circuit Yield and Performance
A novel post-fabrication correction technique promises to break the manufacturing bottleneck hindering the next generation of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for AI, telecommunications, and quantum computing. The laser-based process achieves p-shifts with less than 0.1 dB of additional loss.
Femtum
Tue, Sep 9, 2025
The Future of Packaging Inspection: Machine Vision and AI
Traditional machine vision methods have been integral to packaging inspection, ensuring product quality, efficiency, and regulatory compliance through a combination of image acquisition, processing, and analysis techniques. Today, the advancement of AI and machine learning has significantly...
Teledyne DALSA, Machine Vision OEM Components