Optics & Photonics News

RSS

New Study Could Help Design UV-C Light-Based COVID-19 Disinfection Devices

COVID-19 virus is primarily transmitted through airborne diffusion of saliva microdroplets. Hence, it is crucial to identify methods to destroy the virus in airborne microdroplets.

10 Mar 2021

Teledyne Imaging Introduces COSMOS the Next Generation of High-Performance, Large-Array Cameras for Astronomy

Teledyne Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies [NYSE: TDY], is proud to introduce COSMOS™, large-format, back side illuminated (BSI) CMOS cameras optimized for astronomy. Exclusively developed by Teledyne Imaging, COSMOS draws on decades of expertise in CCD and CMOS sensor and camera development to enable new possibilities in ground-based astronomical imaging.

10 Mar 2021

Teledyne Imaging Brings Its Advanced Imaging Technologies to Vision China 2021

Teledyne Imaging, a Teledyne Technologies company, and global leader in machine vision technology, will exhibit at the upcoming Vision China (Shanghai), in Hall W1, W1-1800, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from March 17-19. Visitors to the Teledyne Imaging booth can expect to see a broad range of leading-edge line and area scan sensors, frame grabbers, vision systems, software, and smart cameras targeted at vision inspection, logistics, robotics and packaging applications.

10 Mar 2021

A Liquid Crystal Walks into an Optical Resonator: New Skoltech Research Helps Model Future Optoelectronic Devices

Researchers at Skoltech and their colleagues proposed a photonic device from two optical resonators with liquid crystals inside them to study optical properties of this system that can be useful for future generations of optoelectronic and spinoptronic devices. The paper was published in the journal Physical Review B.

9 Mar 2021

Electroluminescence at Terahertz Frequencies may Lead to Silicon-Based Lasers

Among all the chemical elements, silicon is the one that stands apart especially where microelectronics is concerned.

9 Mar 2021

New Flat Optics Could Revolutionize Older, Bulk Optics-Based Technologies

Associate Professor Andrea Fratalocchi from KAUST has headed a group of researchers and found that silicon nanoshapes serve as feed-forward neural networks that can be trained in a supervised learning model to carry out user-defined tasks at the speed of light.

9 Mar 2021

Novel Measurement Technique Brings the Study of Molecular Chirality into Microscopic Domain

Researchers have developed a spectroscopic microscope to enable optical measurements of molecular conformations and orientations in biological samples. The novel measurement technique allows researchers to image biological samples at the microscopic level more quickly and accurately.

9 Mar 2021

Salk Researchers Use Deep Learning to Improve Microscope Image Quality

Deep learning is a potential tool for scientists to glean more detail from low-resolution images in microscopy, but it's often difficult to gather enough baseline data to train computers in the process. Now, a new method developed by scientists at the Salk Institute could make the technology more accessible--by taking high-resolution images, and artificially degrading them.

9 Mar 2021

Radiation Resistant Lens for Low Light Applications

Manufactured from specially selected non-browning glass – the Model 313-000 fixed focus lens from Resolve Optics has an aperture of f/1.4 to enable as much light as possible to be gathered and transmitted to the sensor.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 9 Mar 2021

Alluxa’s Optical Filters Landed on Mars

Alluxa, Inc., a global leader in high-performance optical coatings and filters and thin-film deposition technologies, developed specialty optical filters used aboard the Perseverance Rover, which landed safely on Mars on February 18, 2021.

From Alluxa 9 Mar 2021

Sheaumann to Participate at Photonics West Digital Marketplace 2021 and Host Special Digital Event March 8-11

Sheaumann will be attending (albeit virtually) the Photonics West 2021 digital forum. The world’s premier lasers, biomedical optics, and optoelectronics event.

From Sheaumann Laser, Inc. 8 Mar 2021

Photovoltaic Retinal Implants can Provide Artificial Vision to Blind Patients

Being able to make blind people see again sounds like the stuff of miracles or even science fiction. And it has always been one of the biggest challenges for scientists.

8 Mar 2021

Researchers Reveal How Materials Become Harder When Illuminated by Light

Semiconductor materials play an indispensable role in our modern information-oriented society. For reliable performance of semiconductor devices, these materials need to have superior mechanical properties: they must be strong as well as resistant to fracture, despite being rich in nanoscale structures.

8 Mar 2021

Researchers Develop New Way to Modulate and Enhance a Nonlinear Optical Process

Nonlinear optics, a study of how light interacts with matter, is critical to many photonic applications, from the green laser pointers we're all familiar with to intense broadband (white) light sources for quantum photonics that enable optical quantum computing, super-resolution imaging, optical sensing and ranging, and more.

5 Mar 2021