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Trimble and Microsoft Partner to Provide HoloLens Wearable Holographic Technology for AEC Professionals

Trimble announced today that it is working with Microsoft to develop a new generation of tools, integrated with the HoloLens holographic platform on Windows 10, which are intended to improve quality, collaboration and efficiency in the design, construction and operation of buildings and structures. A proof of concept was demonstrated at Microsoft's Build Developer Conference held this week in San Francisco.

30 Apr 2015

High-Speed STAMP Camera Can Record Events at 1 Trillion Frames per Second

When a crystal lattice is excited by a laser pulse, waves of jostling atoms can travel through the material at close to one sixth the speed of light, or approximately 28,000 miles/second. Scientists now have a new tool to take movies of such superfast movement in a single shot.

30 Apr 2015

Novel Ultrafast Camera Captures Images in 2D

An NIBIB grantee has developed an ultrafast camera that can acquire two-dimensional images at 100 billion frames per second, a speed capable of revealing light pulses and other phenomena previously too fast to be observed.

29 Apr 2015

3D Measurement Techniques Based on Digital in-line Holography Help Understand Fiery Fuels

Transportation accidents, such as trucks crashing on a highway or rockets failing on a launch pad, can create catastrophic fires. It’s important to understand how burning droplets of fuel are generated and behave in those extreme cases, so Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed 3-D measurement techniques based on digital in-line holography.

28 Apr 2015

2015 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award Winners - AUREA Technology,Inrad Optics and Northrop Grumman

The CLEO 2015 co-sponsors (APS, IEEE Photonics Society, The Optical Society) and Laser Focus World today announced three winners for this year’s CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award. The CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards recognize outstanding companies that have made major contributions to advancing the field of optics and photonics through recently launched products and services.

28 Apr 2015

Ultra-Compact SWIFTS Spectrometer to Investigate Earth Tides and Quakes

A SWIFTS spectrometer from Resolution Spectra Systems has successfully measured tiny deformations of the Earth's crust, of the order of one millimeter, over a length of one thousand kilometers.

From Merck Chemicals GmbH, an affliate of Merck KGaA 27 Apr 2015

Inexpensive 3-D Capture Camera Produces High-Quality Images in all Environments

When Microsoft released the Kinect for Xbox in November 2010, it transformed the video game industry. The most inexpensive 3-D camera to date, the Kinect bypassed the need for joysticks and controllers by sensing the user's gestures, leading to a feeling of total immersion into the game. Microsoft sold 8 million Kinect units within 60 days, making it the fastest-selling electronic device ever.

25 Apr 2015

Broadband Terahertz Radiation Can Be Laser-Generated from Microplasma in Air

Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation.

25 Apr 2015

Optical Precision Components Manufacturer, OWIS Celebrates 35th Anniversary

The OWIS GmbH, headquartered in Staufen i. Br. in the southwest of Germany, celebrates this year its 35-year anniversary. The company can look back on a successful development history: Since its founding in 1980, OWIS® has become a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art precision components for the optical beam handling and of micro and of nano-hybrid positioning systems.

From OWIS GmbH 25 Apr 2015

Multiple Markets Benefit from Resolve Optics’ Ultra Compact Z-10 High Definition Zoom Lens

Resolve Optics reports on how organisations within the Broadcast industry as well as the Medical, Robotics, Machine Vision, Underwater Monitoring and Military markets are all benefiting from its ultra compact Z-10 high definition zoom lens.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 25 Apr 2015