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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

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

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

Optical Gain from Excitonic Complexes Could Power Future Lasers, Amplifiers

In his latest line of research, Cun-Zheng Ning, a professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and his peers explored the intricate balance of physics that governs how electrons, holes, excitons and trions coexist and mutually convert into each other to produce optical gain.

7 May 2020

NIT Officially Releases HiPe SenS SWIR Camera for Low Light, Long Exposure Time Applications

New Imaging Technologies (NIT) officially releases its latest HiPe SenS - SWIR camera featuring best in class performances for low light, long exposure time applications at an affordable price.

From New Imaging Technologies (NIT) 7 May 2020

Extreme Ultraviolet Microscopy Could Help Analyze Neurodegenerative Diseases

Researchers have captured highly detailed images of neurons developed in the lab using extreme ultraviolet radiation, with the potential to help study neurodegenerative diseases.

6 May 2020

Top 10 Facts from Luxinar to Celebrate 60th Anniversary of Laser Invention

In May 1960, Theodore Maiman first fired his revolutionary ruby laser design which, at the time, was described as “a solution looking for a problem”. Today, we are never far away from lasers, whether they are creating patterns on jeans, scanning our supermarket shopping, powering the internet or performing surgery; lasers are an integral part of our daily lives.

From Luxinar Ltd 6 May 2020

PDR X-ray Solutions 4um Micro Focus X-ray Source Sets New Standard in Image Clarity

PDR X-ray Solutions is pleased to announce that additional X-ray options are now available for printed circuit board inspection, industrial NDT inspection, and bio medical device inspection.

From PDR X-ray Solutions 6 May 2020

Movement of Atomic Nuclei Directly Imaged During Chemical Reaction

The preliminary step in a majority of light-driven chemical reactions, such as the ones that drive human vision and photosynthesis, is a change in the arrangement of the electrons of a molecule as these electrons capture the light’s energy.

4 May 2020