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Optical Vacuum Cleaner can Trap Nanoparticles from the Environment

Researchers of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) together with Russian and international colleagues created the concept for building an “optical vacuum cleaner.”

11 Sep 2019

Creation and Control of Light Crystals

Optical microresonators turn laser light into ultrashort pulses moving around the resonator’s circumference. These pulses, known as “dissipative Kerr solitons,” can propagate in the microresonator keeping their shape.

10 Sep 2019

Novel Optical Ruler can Compute Down to the Nanoscale

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have formulated a novel way to compute distances at the nanoscale—one nanometer is one-billionth of a meter—with the use of light.

6 Sep 2019

Colorful Microreactors Utilize Sunlight

The sun is the most sustainable energy source available on our planet and could be used to power photochemical reactions. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists present a widely applicable, cost-effective photomicroreactor.

30 Aug 2019

Photonis On-Board New X-Ray Imager to Study the Earth’s Magnetic Field from the Moon

Photonis has provided Micro Pore Optics that will be used in an X-ray imager designed by Boston University professor and engineer Brian Walsh to study Earth’s magnetosphere.

From PHOTONIS Technologies S.A.S. 23 Aug 2019

New Active Alignment System for the Coupling of Photonic Structures to Fiber Arrays

In the packaging and testing of photonic components, the optical alignment must be repeated at multiple process steps and it, therefore, plays a decisive role in production economics. PI's new F-712.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 22 Aug 2019

Nordson Corporation’s Latest Acquisition, Optical Control, to Show Component Counter with Automatic Loading/Unloading at SMTAI

optical control, now part of the Nordson Corporation, is pleased to announce that it will exhibit at SMTA International, scheduled to take place Sept. 24-25, 2019 at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. The company will demonstrate the Nordson DAGE Assure™ component counter in Booth #700.

22 Aug 2019

Picometer Resolution in a Compact, Low-cost Package

LightMachinery has completed deliveries of its first HyperFine spectrometers after launching the product line at Photonics West in 2017.

From LightMachinery 20 Aug 2019

Expansion to Laser and Optics Manufacturing Operations

LightMachinery has completed the acquisition of a 50,000 square foot facility in Nepean Ontario. The company already occupies 18,000 square feet in the building and will expand its footprint by 50% in the fall of 2017.

From LightMachinery 20 Aug 2019

New Software is More Powerful and Mobile Friendly

LightMachinery today released a powerful new set of optical design tools. Available for free from the lightmachinery.com website, the tools include advanced modeling software for the design of etalons, virtually imaged phase arrays, and fizeau wedges.

From LightMachinery 20 Aug 2019