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INSIDER: Imaging
Inside every cellphone is a tiny mechanical heart, beating several billion times a second. These micromechanical resonators play an essential role in cellphone communication. Buffeted by the...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Two-Axis Laser Scan Head
Aerotech Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA) has released the AGV-XPO, a high-dynamic, two-axis laser scan head that combines low-inertia, high-efficiency motors with ultra-high resolution position feedback and...
Facility Focus: Energy
Michigan engineers and collaborators are improving smart infrastructure, autonomous transportation, weather prediction, nuclear non-proliferation, and more.
Products: Test & Measurement
Smart contactors, an industrial edge platform, tiny engines, and more.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
What began as a research tool to collect aerodynamic data from research aircraft is now solving technical challenges for NASA.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include power and energy, communications, and sensors.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more.
Technology Leaders: Imaging
The method combines concepts of global and local stereo methods for accurate, pixel- wise matching at low runtime.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
A metal-coated fiber capable of withstands high temperatures.
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Spectrometers, digital microscopes, high-speed imaging, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new imaging method measure temperature in 2D.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Columbia researchers are reducing both the size and the power consumption of a visible-spectrum phase modulator, from one millimeter to 10 microns.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
For the first time, a team has measured the volume of individual droplets smaller than 100 trillionths of a liter, with an uncertainty of less than 1%.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
See how solid-state lasers have grown and diversified over the years.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An expert compares Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR systems with Time of Flight tech.
Application Briefs: Imaging
See how hyperspectral imaging adds value to food inspection systems.
Technology Leaders: Semiconductors & ICs
InGaAs is interesting, but is it useful?
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new technology uses nanoscale sensors and fiber optics to measure water status just inside a leaf’s surface, where water in plants is most actively managed.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new control mechanism may prove useful in devices that make use of optical signals.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
An AI framework enables scientists to improve an imaging technique, enhancing the performance of electron microscopes.
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
NASA’s lighting research gives people on Earth better rest and helps plants grow.
Q&A: Photonics/Optics
Dr. Israel Owens and his team at Sandia National Laboratories have used a crystal smaller than a dime and a laser smaller than a shoebox to safely measure 20 million volts without making physical contact to the electrode.
Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - February 2022
How virtual, cloud-based technologies are powering the next industrial revolution...transforming plastic parts into high-value products...designing optics for medical 3D printing. Read these...Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The camera could have uses in faster disease diagnosis and thinner cellphones.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Mechanical control and modulation of light on a silicon chip could enhance LiDAR.
Briefs: Materials
Fano Resonance Optical Coatings can both transmit and reflect the same color simultaneously.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This new design overcomes a long-standing LED efficiency problem and can also transform it into a laser.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Applications include aircraft-mounted and space-based interferometers, electronics fabrication, and military optics.
Briefs: Communications
This combination of technologies could enable developments for many optical applications.
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