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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Increased laser capacity has enabled, and will continue to enable, new manufacturing possibilities.
Briefs: Imaging
A nanoantenna-enabled detector boosts the usable signal of a thermal infrared camera by up to three times.
Briefs: Aerospace
A system senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
SPIE Photonics West 2020 returns to The Moscone Center in San Francisco, February 1 through February 6
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
For disease diagnosis, a microchip maps the back of the eye.
Products: Photonics/Optics
Photopolymer films, LED light engines, measurement systems, and more.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new laser-based system offers an efficient way to detect fires in challenging environments such as industrial facilities or large construction sites.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This innovation dynamically provides fast signal processing and precision measurement.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optically Fixable Shape Memory Polymers
These polymers can combine thermal and optically fixable shape memory.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The method could impact optical imaging, vision correction, and disease diagnosis.
Briefs: Communications
RFID-based devices work in indoor and outdoor lighting conditions and could transmit data for years before they need to be replaced.
Q&A: Photonics/Optics
Changing directions of twist and coiling changes whether a material cools or heats.
Briefs: Materials
This multifunctional hybrid laminate composite can be used for residential and commercial construction.
Articles: Aerospace
Products include an aerosol scattering sensor; metal foam; and a new coated drug capsule.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This optical switch controls the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This approach removes the limitation on peak power densities that exists for fiber lasers.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
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 light...
Briefs: Imaging
Low-Bandwidth Radar Technology Provides Improved Detection of Objects
Radar technologies were originally designed to identify and track airborne military targets. Today, they're more often used to detect motor vehicles, weather formations, and geological terrain. Until now, scientists believed that radar accuracy and resolution are related to the...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This system uses fiber optic strain sensing to detect and locate micrometeoroid/orbital debris.
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Test Equipment
The LDTC LAB series instruments from Wavelength Electronics (Bozeman, MT) combine low noise, high-end digital control laser diode driver technology with an IntelliTune® smart temperature controller. Two models are...
INSIDER: Materials
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have reported a new mechanism to speed up the charging of lithium-ion batteries for...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
A new instrument mounted on a telescope in Arizona aimed its robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic “eyes” at the night sky on Oct. 22 to capture the first images...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Most of us know optical lenses as curved, transparent pieces of plastic or glass, designed to focus light for microscopes, spectacles, cameras, and more. For the most part, a lens’...
Briefs: Data Acquisition
UCLA engineers have made major improvements on their design of an optical neural network — a device inspired by how the human brain works — that can identify objects or process...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new imaging method extracts a color image from a single exposure of light scattered through a mostly opaque material.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
High quality camera performance on mobile devices has proven to be one of the features that most end-users aim for. The importance of optical image quality improvement and the trend to have thinner and thinner...
Briefs: Imaging
Researchers have developed a new self-calibrating endoscope that produces 3D images of objects smaller than a single cell without a lens or any optical, electrical, or...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Laser illumination is scaling in a new direction.
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