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Managing the Occurence of Obsolete Optical Components
Resolve Optics has published an article that discusses the benefits of adopting a bespoke design strategy to manage the increasing occurence of optical components becoming obsolete before the end of a products life cycle.... -
Roofing Drone Nails Down Shingles
An octocopter capable of attaching asphalt shingles to roofs with a nail gun has been demonstrated at the University of Michigan. This aerial vehicle is autonomous, meaning that it positions the nail gun on a nailing point,... -
Laser Paint Stripping of Components in Cathodic Dip Paint
4JET Technologies GmbH is presenting its growing portfolio of automated and hand-held laser cleaning systems at this year's parts2clean. At the same time, the company will present a specialist presentation at the... -
Time-Resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy Course
PicoQuant will hold the 12th international course on “Time-resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy” from February 18 to 20, 2020, in Berlin (Germany). The course provides an in-depth introduction to the... -
NKT Photonics Delivers Lasers for Defense Project
On September 11th 2019, Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH announced the successful test of a 20 KW laser source based on spectral combining of 12 fiber lasers supplied by NKT Photonics. Based on a close co-operation and team... -
Testing Luminance with GL Opticam Camera
Analytik reports that BSI, a business improvement company, has invested in a GL OPTICAM 1.0 luminance measuring camera to verify emergency lighting product compliance with the standard ISO 3864-2:2016 Graphical Symbols... -
New York Airport Launches Facial Recognition with Vision-Box
Vision-Box and Terminal One Group Association (TOGA) announce a landmark agreement providing seamless biometric boarding at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). Lufthansa is the launch carrier deploying...
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FMCW: The future of lidar
Lidar holds the promise of making autonomous vehicles safer by improving navigation and enabling faster, better decisions. Lidar is an acronym for light detection and ranging, and, as its name implies, is a remote sensing method using laser light... -
Lighting for Health and Wellbeing
Indoor lighting can have a dramatic effect on our health, impacting our sleep patterns, sense of wellbeing and even intelligence. A study conducted last year at the University of Michigan found that changes in environmental light leads to... -
Spatial Frequencies and Aspheric Lens Performance
The most renowned optical designs achieved fame by combining multiple elements into a single system. Multiple elements minimize aberrations, because each lens (at least partially) cancels aberrations introduced by the others. The nearly arbitrary... -
Keeping Your Eyes on the Road
We’ve all heard the news reports of drivers of autonomous vehicles falling asleep at the wheel. And while that may be the extreme, it certainly would be human nature to gaze out the window as the car navigates its own way down the highway.... -
High Brightness Laser Projectors Target Information Displays
As automotive standards and technologies improve and as features once only available in luxury models are becoming available in standard models, automotive manufacturers are constantly on the lookout for new technologies they can incorporate into... -
3D Sensing Made Easy by Multiple Beams Profiler
In laser beam profiling technologies, the standard of the industry is measuring one beam at a time. However, the laser diode market has recently increased in size as well as in new technology concepts. Many new applications such as gesture... -
Insights into Aspheric Lens Production and Metrology
Today aspheric lenses are an integral part of modern technology, in the consumer market as well as in high-end research. Starting from small aspherical elements (Ø < 1.5mm) made of transparent plastic that are combined into a precise lens...
