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Explore the latest technical briefs and product breakthroughs in photonics and optics. Resources include breakthroughs in lasers, laser systems, fiber optics, optical components, and photonics.
How to Keep Batteries from Catching Fire? Nanotech Energy Goes with...
The Next Challenge for Soft Robots? Beat the Cheetah
Gecko-Inspired: Researchers Find Easier Way to Mass-Produce Adhesives
Jumping Soft Actuator Inspired by Children's Toy
Design Contest Winner Jon Sumroy Shares Success Story
Small devices that require high precision, high resolution, and high accuracy are all around us. From the electronic connectors in cellphones to the tiny valves in medical pumps, these devices aren’t...
For fast measurements of displacement, distance and position with high accuracy and resolution, laser triangulation sensors can be used in a variety of...
For many applications in harsh or low-light environmental conditions such as nighttime, fog, smoke, water vapors, etc., devices operating in the visible range of light cannot process or...
Luxinar (Kingston Upon Hull, UK) has introduced the SR 08s for marking, scribing and kiss cutting applications requiring average rather than peak power. The...
Ever since Henry Ford introduced the first moving production line to the industry in 1913, automotive manufacturers have been constantly striving to streamline their processes,...
The last thing you probably do when a fly buzzes toward you is marvel at its graceful wing and body kinematics. But that’s exactly what researchers at Cornell University’s Itai Cohen Group...
Before liquid lenses, a user would have to design some type of mechanical focusing into their optical system, which meant having a device to raise and lower the optics to enable them to refocus on different heights...
Most precision optics, whether used in scientific, medical, industrial, or military applications, incorporate some type of thin film coating to enhance their capabilities. This Webinar from the editors of Tech Briefs Media delves into some of the more popular types of coatings, what they do, and how they're...
For more than 100 years, fluorescence microscopy has been utilized in biological sciences as a means for identifying the spatial distribution of molecules...
Optical alignment and micro-optic positioning are challenging, time-consuming processes. Tiny positional variations in photonic and optical manufacturing can mean the difference...
Applying the stable and repeatable characteristics of lasers to high-powered directed energy applications has ushered in a new era of efficient weapons for the military. The development of these weapons comes with challenges that users of high-powered...
Whether you're an engineer, a procurement agent, or in business management many things should be considered when selecting the right lenses for your thermal imager, or infrared (IR) camera....
Head-up display (HUD) technology is one of the largest growth areas in the automotive market, and standard measurement criteria are rapidly being defined to ensure HUD visual performance...
Materials Qualification of Healthcare Products to Radiation...
Back to the Future of Video Compression
Mars 2020: The Legacy Continues for NASA Space Robotics
Linking FMEA, FMEDA, and FTA for Safety Analysis and Hardware...
Producing Optimal High-Speed Images for Automotive and Industrial...
Advanced Joining and Materials Technologies for Lightweight...
Ultrafast Laser Micromachining
Universal Mechanical Testers for Tribology Testing in the Automotive Industry
Executive Roundtable: 3D Printing
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in Optimal Control of Fluids
Advanced Materials Help Lasers Beat the Heat
