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MKS Announces Ophir® Low-SWaP, Long-Range MWIR Lens for Drone and Small Gimbal Applications

MKS Instruments, Inc., a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, has announced the Ophir® LightIR 18-225 mm MWIR f/4 continuous zoom lens, the newest addition to the LightIR family of low SWaP, high-performance, motorized continuous zoom lenses.

From MKS Instruments, Inc. 14 Jun 2022

Researchers Discover New Tool for Atmospheric Detection

Due to their distinctive characteristics of high peak power, short pulse length, and broad spectral coverage, ultrafast laser technologies provide novel options for remote sensing of atmospheric contaminants and dangerous biological agents.

10 Jun 2022

Researchers Create Portable and Tunable Electro-Optic Modulator for Free Storage Applications

Electro-optic modulators regulate the properties of light in response to electrical impulses and are used in a variety of applications ranging from sensing to metrology and telecommunications.

8 Jun 2022

Scientists Develop All-Optical Switching Method to Make Optical Computing and Communication Systems More Sustainable

At Tampere University, a team of photonics researchers has presented a new method to manage a light beam with another beam at ultra-low power via a special plasmonic metasurface in a linear medium.

7 Jun 2022

Chromium Compounds Can Substitute Precious Metals in Photon Upconversion

Chemical applications that are sustainable must be able to use renewable energy sources, renewable raw materials, and naturally occurring elements.

6 Jun 2022

Researchers Analyze Various Functional LC Devices for AR/VR Displays

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have the power to change how humans perceive and interact with digital data.

3 Jun 2022

Nüvü’s EMCCD for Nanosatellites

Nüvü Came¯ras is on its way to occupying a prime position in space exploration with the development of its proprietary low light imaging solution for nanosatellites.

From NUVU Cameras 3 Jun 2022

Creaform Adds Two High-Performance Scanners to the HandySCAN 3D | SILVER Series

Creaform, a business unit of AMETEK, Inc. and the worldwide leader in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, announced today that it is launching two scanners with great price-performance ratios as part of its HandySCAN 3DTM | SILVER Series solution suite.

From Creaform Inc. 2 Jun 2022

Antichiral Gyromagnetic Photonic Crystal Used to Split Configurable Topological Beam

A recent publication from Opto-Electronic Science illustrates customizable topological beam splitting through antichiral gyromagnetic photonic crystal.

1 Jun 2022

Novel UHD HDMI to 6G-SDI converter NA4K2022 from AIVION

AIVION, the leading video interface solution provider, announced the NA4K2022, a small form factor UHD HDMI to SDI converter module.

From eVision Systems GmbH 1 Jun 2022

Mitsubishi Electric Creates World’s First Laser Communication Terminal

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced the development of a prototype of the world’s first optical receiver for use in laser communication terminals (LCTs).

31 May 2022

Brain Inflammation Identified in MRI for the Very First Time, a New Study Shows

The laboratories of Dr Silvia de Santis and Dr Santiago Canals, both of the Institute of Neurosciences UMH-CSIC (Alicante, Spain), have used diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging to show brain inflammation for the first moment and in considerable detail.

30 May 2022

Automated Scanning Device Detects Monolayers With 99.9% Accuracy

Staring through a microscope at samples of material for hours on end, attempting to locate monolayers, is one of the most laborious and intimidating tasks for undergraduate assistants in university research laboratories.

30 May 2022

Laser Power and Cell Migration: Guiding Living Cells Using Laser Beams

Researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) have developed a method to guide individual cells to the appropriate place with laser-guided precision.

By David J. Cross 30 May 2022

Laser Components' Output Couplers

LASER COMPONENTS has over 30 years’ experience producing the highest quality optical coatings. We manufacture partially reflective mirrors as standard for the wavelength range 193 nm – 5 um. Partially reflective mirrors are generally produced for 0° AOI as output couplers, or for 45° as beam splitters, though other incident angles may be manufactured upon request

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 30 May 2022