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Ophir Wide Beam Imager for Measuring Large and Divergent Beams

MKS Instruments, Inc., has announced the Ophir® Wide Beam Imager (WB-I), a compact calibrated optical system for measuring the size and power distribution of large and divergent beams of VCSELs, LEDs, edge emitting l...

From MKS Instruments, Inc. 23 Sep 2020

New Thin and Ultra-Fast Photodetector can See the Full Spectrum of Light

Scientists have created the world’s first photodetector that can visualize all shades of light, in a prototype device that profoundly shrinks one of the most underlying elements of contemporary technology.

23 Sep 2020

New Alkali Copper Halide that Emits Pure Blue Light Discovered

Artificial light accounts for approximately 20% of the total electricity consumed globally.

18 Sep 2020

New Optical Method to Create Reprogrammable Artificial Lattices Using Only Laser Light

Researchers at the Hybrid Photonics Laboratories in Skoltech and Southampton, in collaboration with Lancaster University, have demonstrated a new optical method to synthesize artificial solid-state crystal structures for cavity-polaritons using only laser light.

17 Sep 2020

Researchers Design a Silicon-Based Light Source to Generate Single Photons

Quantum technology holds great promise: Just a few years from now, quantum computers are expected to revolutionize database searches, AI systems, and computational simulations.

16 Sep 2020

Method Enables Efficient Generation of Coherent Vibrations

Lasing can be defined as the emission of a collimated beam of light that has a well-defined wavelength (color) as well as phase.

14 Sep 2020

Using Light to Precisely Control Genetically Engineered Bacteria

Researchers at Princeton University have created a new and improved way to more precisely control genetically engineered bacteria: by simply switching the lights on and off.

10 Sep 2020

New Imaging Technique Helps Observe 3D Hidden Objects in Real Time

Stanford University researchers have designed a new kind of X-ray vision without the proverbial X-rays.

10 Sep 2020

Sensors of World’s Largest Digital Camera Snap First 3,200-megapixel Images at Slac

Crews at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken the first 3,200-megapixel digital photos – the largest ever taken in a single shot – with an extraordinary array of imaging sensors that will become the heart and soul of the future camera of Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

9 Sep 2020

Application Optimised Machine Vision Lenses

Resolve Optics offer a service to design, develop and supply application optimised machine vision lenses for any industrial and robotic image processing application.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 9 Sep 2020