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Camera Manufacturer IDS Inc. Celebrates 15th Anniversary

2022 is a special year for the industrial camera manufacturer IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH. The company was founded 25 years ago in Obersulm, Germany.

From IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH 31 Mar 2022

MKS' Ophir® Optics Group Receives BAE Systems Electronic Systems 2021 Gold Level Supplier Award

MKS Instruments, Inc., a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, is pleased to announce that the Ophir® Optics Group has been honored with a 2021 Gold Level Supplier Award from BAE Systems Electronic Systems.

From Ophir Corp. 30 Mar 2022

New LiDAR System Shows Potential to Improve the Vision of Autonomous Systems

Even though robots don't have eyes with retinas, the key to helping them see and interact with the world more naturally and safely may rest in optical coherence tomography (OCT) machines commonly found in the offices of ophthalmologists.

30 Mar 2022

Researchers Evaluate the Robustness of Long-Range MEMS Scanning Lidar Against External Vibrations

3D object detection in various road situations is a necessity for safe autonomous driving. For example, a white 18-wheel-truck next to the cloudy sky or a single, dropped, black tire on a highway needs to be detected early enough to avoid collision.

30 Mar 2022

Complex Optical Information Revealed Through Vectorial Metrics

Vectorial properties of light beams and illuminated objects have long been a subject of scientific exploration, exploited in a wide range of technological applications-from biomedical optics to multiphoton lithography.

30 Mar 2022

Physicists Discover the Maximum Speed of Signal Transmission in Microchips

The maximum speed of signal transmission in microchips is about one petaherz (one million gigahertz), which is about 100,000 times faster than current transistors.

28 Mar 2022

New Approach for Generating THz Bessel Beams from Superluminal Laser Plasma Filaments

Terahertz (THz) radiation from laser plasmas features with ultrabroad bandwidth, which is attractive for many applications. Significant efforts have been made to enhance its conversion efficiency, tune its frequency spectrum, and even manipulate its polarization.

28 Mar 2022

Photonic Quantum Memristor may be the Missing Link Between AI and Quantum Computing

In recent years, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous, with applications such as speech interpretation, image recognition, medical diagnosis, and many more. At the same time, quantum technology has been proven capable of computational power well beyond the reach of even the world's largest supercomputer.

25 Mar 2022

Lights Makes Electrons Bend in Bilayer Graphene

The way electrons flow in materials determine its electronic properties. For example, when a voltage is sustained across a conducting material, electrons start flowing, generating an electrical current.

25 Mar 2022