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Protect Your Assets: New Thermal Imaging Camera Enables Highly Accurate Human Body Temperature Measurements in COVID-19 Fever Screening

Viral epidemics such as the current coronavirus (COVID-19) have created a global demand for infrared cameras that are able to screen for a fever condition in humans.

From Micro-Epsilon USA 19 May 2020

Autofocussing Electronic Autocollimator

LASER COMPONENTS’ partner PLX Inc release the ACT-25FO autofocussing electronic autocollimator. The ACT-25FO combines the functionality of an autocollimator and an alignment telescope in one unit, using a motorised focussing knob controlled by the supplied software.

From Laser Components (UK) Ltd. 19 May 2020

Optical Fibers Tool to Monitor Glacier Movement and Composition

Seismic tracking of glaciers is crucial to gain improved insights into their development and to forecast risks.

18 May 2020

Synchrotron-Generated X-Rays Used to Probe Glass-Transition Dynamics

Four physicists from RIKEN have demonstrated the capability of an X-ray spectroscopy method to help understand the puzzling phenomena that take place when a liquid approaches a glass-like state.

18 May 2020

Scientists Develop Modular Bridge Design for Nanoscale Photonic Chip

Light is emerging as the leading vehicle for information processing in computers and telecommunications as our need for energy efficiency and bandwidth increases.

18 May 2020

Using Light to Control a Component of Cells

Photopharmacology investigates the use of light to switch the effect of drugs on and off. Now, for the first time, scientific teams from Jena, Munich, and New York have succeeded in using this method to control a component of cells that was previously considered inaccessible.

18 May 2020

Researchers Use Light to Track Individual Molecules in Real Time

A research team at the Living Systems Institute of the University of Exeter has established a method for real-time monitoring of the properties and structure of individual molecules using light.

18 May 2020

Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation; High-Precision UVC Exposure Measurements

Gamma Scientific announces the release of its Germicidal Ultraviolet Irradiation measurements system to perform irradiance and radiant exposure measurements in the UVC region of the spectrum.

From Gamma Scientific 18 May 2020

Using Intense Synchrotron Radiation to Produce Higher-Quality CT Images

Several people would have undergone a CT scan at a certain point in their life—sliding in and out of a tunnel, with a huge machine rotating around. X-ray computed tomography, well-known by its acronym CT, is a technique extensively used to capture cross-sectional images of objects.

15 May 2020

Parabolic Mirrors for Optical Instruments

Optical Surfaces Ltd is a leading manufacturer of Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors for optical instruments including radiometers, MTF measuring systems and spectrometers.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 14 May 2020

New Technique Uses Photonic Circuits to Speed Up Coherent LiDAR

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) includes a series of methods in which laser light is used to quantify distances by multiplying the time delay between received and transmitted optical signals with the speed of light.

14 May 2020

Ultra-Long-Working-Distance Spectroscopy with 3D-Printed Aspherical Microlenses

Researchers at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw have demonstrated micrometre-sized 3D-printed aspherical microlenses which can replace bulky microscope objectives in spectroscopic measurements of single point-like light emitters (e.g. quantum dots or atomically thin 2D materials).

14 May 2020