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Application Optimised Machine Vision Lenses

Resolve Optics is a leading designer and supplier of high performance custom machine vision lenses.

21 Feb 2022

LAMpAS Announces the Release of a High-Speed IR Camera

In the frame of the EU-funded LAMpAS project, the company New Infrared Technologies S.L. (NIT) has developed a high-speed uncooled IR camera specifically adapted to the requirements of LAMPAS processes.

17 Feb 2022

Ultrahigh Performance Atomic Clock Could Pave the Way to Novel Physics Discoveries

Physicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created one of the maximum performance atomic clocks ever. They report their development in the February 16th issue of the journal Nature.

17 Feb 2022

Direct Energetic Ion Acceleration by Irradiating Graphene Target with Ultra-Intense Laser

Laser-driven ion acceleration has been studied to develop a compact and efficient plasma-based accelerator, which is applicable to cancer therapy, nuclear fusion, and high energy physics.

17 Feb 2022

World-first: Speed of Sound Used to Measure Elasticity of Materials

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have devised a revolutionary new technique for measuring the microscopic elasticity of materials for the first time. Known as SRAS, the technology works by measuring the speed of sound across the material’s surface.

17 Feb 2022

Researchers Alter the Atomic Structure of a Thermoelectric Material with Intense Pulses of Laser Light

X-Ray laser experiments reveal that intense light deforms the structure of a thermoelectric material in an exceptional manner, revealing a new possibility for regulating material properties.

15 Feb 2022

Femtosecond Lasers Used to Attain Superwettability in Various Materials

More than billions of years of evolution, numerous organisms in nature have displayed exceptional surface wettability.

11 Feb 2022

Challenges and Opportunities of Detecting Gravitational Waves at Much Higher Frequencies

Electromagnetic (EM) waves and gravitational waves are the only available means to study the Universe on a large scale. For millennia, only the former could be used, in naked-eye astronomical observations by the ancients based on the reception of visible light, or present-day super telescopes operating in various bands of the EM spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.

11 Feb 2022

Distributed Kerr-Lens Mode Locked Yb: YAG Thin-Disk Oscillator Generates sub-50 Femtosecond Pulses

Ultrafast laser oscillators are indispensable tools for diverse applications in scientific research and industry. When the phases of the longitudinal laser cavity modes are locked, pulses as short as a few femtoseconds can be generated.

11 Feb 2022

Useful Insights into Laser-Matter Interactions

Studies of laser-matter interactions are an important and rapidly growing area of physics. This special issue of EPJ ST, edited by Sivarama Krishnan at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Marcel Mudrich at Aarhus University, Denmark, contains a set of 21 articles in this field, encompassing a broad range of experimental and theoretical approaches.

10 Feb 2022