Photonics & Imaging

If you want to pursue in-house PCB prototyping and testing, there are several routes you can take.

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

If a satellite breaks in orbit, there's not much that can be done. A professor envisions a new idea for refueling and repair.

Inspired by spiders, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), have developed a compact and efficient depth sensor that could be used onboard...

Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.

Adhesives, flame-retardant compounds, vision measurement, and more...

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.

Changing directions of twist and coiling changes whether a material cools or heats.

This innovation dynamically provides fast signal processing and precision measurement.

Products include an aerosol scattering sensor; metal foam; and a new coated drug capsule.

Computed tomography is being used in the medical and industrial field. An expert explains how the two imaging techniques differ.

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 reported,...

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...

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...

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 showing...