Photonics & Imaging

Various components are used to assemble robots that are more aware of their surroundings.

An upgraded mini robot can leap over obstacles with ease.

For disease diagnosis, a microchip maps the back of the eye.

Applications include modeling of tidal stress response of icy satellites as well as fatigue of terrestrial ice shelves.

Interaction of sound and light reveals new information of a crystal's quantum properties.

A new laser-based system offers an efficient way to detect fires in challenging environments such as industrial facilities or large construction sites.

Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving together to transport objects.

This technology is a novel, rugged, and economic diagnostic and sensor platform technology.

These advances are useful for transportation, infrastructure, and aerospace.

This thin film can be used for ground-based and airborne applications in aircraft, balloons, and other flight missions.

The technology can be used in commercial motors, robotic systems, and hybrid and electric vehicles.

Radar technologies were originally designed to identify and track airborne military targets. Today, they're more often used to detect motor vehicles, weather formations,...

This retractable de-orbit device facilitates targeted re-entry, attitude and orbital control, and collision avoidance.

The simulator could help in the development of new back braces.

This method also reverse-engineers computer chips to detect the chip’s purpose.

The method could impact optical imaging, vision correction, and disease diagnosis.

Current laser interferometry pressure pulse detection techniques use the shock-induced change in index of refraction to track detonation and/or shock fronts in a single fiber optic by reflecting laser...

This approach removes the limitation on peak power densities that exists for fiber lasers.

This optical switch controls the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently.

RFID-based devices work in indoor and outdoor lighting conditions and could transmit data for years before they need to be replaced.

These polymers can combine thermal and optically fixable shape memory.

This system uses fiber optic strain sensing to detect and locate micrometeoroid/orbital debris.

This multifunctional hybrid laminate composite can be used for residential and commercial construction.

This innovation dynamically provides fast signal processing and precision measurement.

Thermal cameras like forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensors are actively deployed on aerial and ground vehicles, in watch towers, and at check points for surveillance purposes. More recently,...