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Simple Zoom Lens for Use in Remote or Hazardous Environments

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 15 Dec 2020

Researchers Make Key Advances with New Human-Eye Type of Optical Sensor

Researchers at Oregon State University are making key advances with a new type of optical sensor that more closely mimics the human eye's ability to perceive changes in its visual field.

9 Dec 2020

New Light Manipulation Method for More Efficient Communications Technology

The pursuit of finding innovative, new techniques to manipulate the way light travels through electromagnetic materials has taken a new, peculiar twist.

9 Dec 2020

Affordable, High-Performance Beam Collimators

Affordable, High-Performance Beam Collimators: Optical Surfaces Ltd. announces a new series of high-performance beam collimators designed for Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) testing of optical systems.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 9 Dec 2020

New Method to Make Most Durable, Lighter, Thinnest Light Source

At the University of St Andrews, a research team has devised a new technique to make the thinnest, most durable, and lightweight light source thus far, which could transform the future of mobile technologies and enable new advances in brain science.

8 Dec 2020

New System for Efficient Conversion of Weak Visible Light into UV Light

A new material system with the ability to directly transform visible light into ultraviolet light with an efficiency twice that of previous figures could boost the performance of light-driven processes ranging from hydrogen production to air purification under ambient light.

7 Dec 2020

In-Fiber Multispectral Optical Sensing Opens New Horizons in the Analysis of Biological Liquids

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Russia and Israel have come up with a new, simple and inexpensive method of testing liquid biological samples that can be further developed to work in clinical settings, including real-time testing during surgery. The paper was published in the journal Light: Science & Applications.

4 Dec 2020

Photonics Meets Surface Science in a Cheap and Accurate Sensor for Biological Liquids

3 Dec 2020

Video Pyrometer - CSvideo 3M from Optris For Optimal Alignment and Focus

Temperature measurements with pyrometers have the enormous advantage that no contact with the measured object is necessary. This also poses a challenge at the same time: The pyrometer must be perfectly aligned with the m...

From Optris GmbH & Co. KG 2 Dec 2020

Researchers Develop Photonic Sensor Technology for Detecting Ammonia

In collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University has developed photonic sensor technology that can pave the way for a portable, reliable and, above all, inexpensive device for detecting ammonia and other gases in agriculture.

2 Dec 2020