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Scientists Use Ultra-Bright X-ray Pulses to Create Electromagnetic Black Hole

When scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory focused the full intensity of the world’s most powerful X-ray laser on a small molecule, they got a surprise: A single laser pulse stripped all but a few electrons out of the molecule’s biggest atom from the inside out, leaving a void that started pulling in electrons from the rest of the molecule, like a black hole gobbling a spiraling disk of matter.

1 Jun 2017

MIT Researchers Use Deep-Cooled Princeton Instruments FPA Camera To Advance In Vivo Imaging in the SWIR

Princeton Instruments, a world-renowned manufacturer of sensitive low-light imaging and spectroscopic instruments, hails the introduction and evaluation of a new class of high-quality, indium-arsenide (InAs)–based, short-wave infrared (SWIR)–emitting quantum dots for use as in vivo imaging agents by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A state-of-the-art Princeton Instruments NIRvana® camera featuring a thermoelectrically cooled indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) focal plane array (FPA) was employed in the quantum dot evaluation.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 1 Jun 2017

Informative Lens Innovation Newsletter

Resolve Optics has published** the Spring 2017 issue of 'Lens Innovation' - its popular newsletter dedicated to addressing topical subjects, technological developments, interesting applications and breaking news involving optics and optical systems.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 1 Jun 2017

MKS' Ophir® Business Unit Announces Large Array Laser Beam Profiling Camera with Quick and Easy USB Interfacing

MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, has announced the Ophir® Pyrocam™ IV USB, a laser beam profiling camera that allows users to see their laser beam for dynamic alignment and proper operation. The camera features a 320 x 320 pixel pyroelectric array that can profile beams up to 1 inch (25 mm) without the need for reduction optics. It also includes a new USB 3.0 interface that provides a quick and easy connection to PCs for beam analysis, 2D and 3D beam display, as well as trending, data logging, and storage.

From MKS Instruments, Inc. 1 Jun 2017

Scientists Achieve Highest Ever Reflectance in Far-Ultraviolet Spectral Range

Scientists at NASA have produced telescope mirrors that have the highest ever reflectance observed in the far-ultraviolet spectral range. Now, they are attempting to set another record.

31 May 2017

Laser Weapons Could Become Reality with Clemson Engineers' Research

In the “Star Wars”, we see the rebels and the empire use laser cannons to shoot it out on the big screen, but soon these weapons could enter the real battlefield with the help of two Clemson University engineers who are receiving a joint $3.2 million from the Department of Defense.

31 May 2017

Construction of World’s Largest Optical and Infrared Telescope Begins in Chile

Scientists are a step closer to understanding the inner-workings of the universe following the laying of the first stone, and construction starting on the world's largest optical and infrared telescope

29 May 2017

Researchers Demonstrate Feasibility of Using Plasma to Amplify Short Laser Pulses

The researchers demonstrated the feasibility of using plasma to amplify short laser pulses of picojoule-level energy up to 100 millijoules, which is a ‘gain’ or amplification of more than eight orders of magnitude – which could be likened to amplifying the sound of rustling leaves to that of a jumbo jet - in only two mm of plasma.

29 May 2017

Laser-Based Optical Manipulation Technique for Manipulating 3D Motion of Living Cells

An optical manipulation method with the ability to freely control the orientation, position, as well as shape of microscopic samples with complex shapes has been developed by Professor YongKeun Park and his team from the Department of Physics at KAIST.

26 May 2017

New Metasurface-Based Technology Reduces Duration of MRI Scans

A new metasurface-based technology has been designed and tested by scientists from the Netherlands and Russia in order to improve the local sensitivity of MRI scanners on human test subjects for the very first time.

26 May 2017

Researchers Discover Light Can Be Controlled with Electric Fields

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a method for manipulating light using electric fields.

26 May 2017

OSI Laser Diode to Showcase LCW/SCW Series of Instrument Laser Modules at Laser World of Photonics, Munich 2017

OSI Laser Diode, Inc. (LDI), an OSI Systems Company, will showcase the LCW/SCW Series of high-power laser modules for optical testing at Laser World of Photonics in Munich, Germany, in Hall B2, booth #161, June 26 - 29, 2017.

From OSI Laser Diode, Inc. 26 May 2017

XIMEA Awarded the highest Platinum level in Vision Systems Design 2017 Innovators Awards Program

XIMEA GmbH, the camera innovator of small size and high speed cameras, announced today that its xiB-64 camera line was recognized by the judges of the annual Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards program.

26 May 2017

Princeton Instruments Introduces the Fastest and Highest Resolution 1M Pixel Electron-Multiplying CCD Camera for High-resolution Imaging and Spectroscopy

Princeton Instruments is pleased to introduce the fastest and highest resolution 1M pixel, 10 μm x 10 μm pixels EMCCD camera, the ProEM-HS:1KBX3-10μm. This addition to the popular ProEM®-HS product line utilizes both the latest low-noise readout electronics and Princeton Instruments’ patented eXcelon®3 (X3) fringesuppression technology to deliver single-photon sensitivity.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 25 May 2017

Optical Engineering Special Section Promotes Development in Wearable Visualization Systems

Wearable visualization systems (WVS) are presently at the forefront of consumer electronics product development, and social media companies are investing a lot to enable compelling experiences via augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR).

24 May 2017