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Andor Cameras Help Detect Source of Laser Beam Attacks on Aircraft
Laser beam strikes on aircraft have long been a concern for aviation authorities across the world. In 2017, the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States received 6,754 individual reports of lasers being... -
Raman Spectroscopy Poised to Make Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis Less Invasive
Researchers have demonstrated that an optical technique known as Raman spectroscopy can be used to differentiate between benign and cancerous thyroid cells. The new study shows Raman spectroscopy’s potential as a tool to... -
Canadian Imaging Technology's Key Role in Studying Space Weather
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the University of Calgary, along with other partners, announced that they will develop Canada's contribution to the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission. The... -
First Images from Mars Seen through Lenses Designed by Jenoptik
The Jenoptik Light & Optics team in Jupiter, Florida (US) have been developing three types of mission critical lenses for use with the Mars Rover’s engineering cameras. Navigation lenses will capture the... -
ABB Robotics to Develop Autonomous Solutions for the Hospital of the Future
ABB announced that it will introduce collaborative robots to medical laboratories as it opens a new healthcare hub at the Texas Medical Center (TMC) innovation campus in Houston, Texas (US). The facility will be ABB’s... -
Diffraction-Limited Aspheric Lenses for Nuclear Research Laser Facilities
Today, nuclear research laser facilities around the world commonly use powerful amplified ultra-short duration pulses of coherent light to deliver massive energy densities at a given target. The synchronised delivery... -
Robots Harvest Enough Strawberries to Serve at Wimbledon
Wimbledon fans, who consume 34 thousand kilos of strawberries at each tournament (according to an article in The Evening Standard), could one day get their strawberries picked by photonics-based robots. Unveiled by the...
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Why Facial Recognition is the Face of the Future
New security applications on mobile devices has put facial recognition in the spotlight. For the first time, smartphone users can unlock their devices and pay for purchases simply by looking at their screens. From a technical standpoint, facial... -
The Promise of Thermal Imaging in Automated Inspection
While traditional cameras rely on visible light to capture images of what they “see,” infrared cameras generate images that depict the invisible energy or heat of objects. Every object emits thermal radiation, and the warmer an object,... -
Setting Up the Ideal Electron Microscopy Lab
Today’s busy labs are packed full of new technologies and electronic equipment; space is at a premium and this busy setting, combined with the growth – and noise – produced by surrounding cities, causes a significant problem for... -
Artificial Intelligence Helps Cut Food Waste
Every day about one-third of all food harvested or produced around the globe is wasted. That amounts to about 1.3 billion tons of food. IKEA prides itself on its focus on sustainability and being careful with the world’s resources. Not only... -
How to Test Optical Coatings
Testing optical coatings always has some variables depending on the coating type, substrate material, application, and complexity of the test requirements (both mechanical and optical). The following is a short outline of the methods that the... -
Lasers and Industry 4.0
Cutting-edge laser-based technologies are a key component of Industry 4.0 systems and occupy an increasingly central role in the ongoing evolution of connected, agile and high-speed manufacturing processes. Versatile technology Industry 4.0 - also... -
Fixed-Wavelength Laser for Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy
The typical approach to generating images of biological samples through a two-photon non-linear process historically means using tunable solid state laser sources (Ti:Sapphire) that are costly and often suffer with reliability issues. In this...
