optics

ASML, the Netherlands-headquartered market leader in lithography systems for semiconductor wafer processing, says it has received its first orders for next-generation extreme ultraviolet (EUV) tools based on high numerical aperture (high-NA) optics. With the first generation of laser-powered EUV systems ...

Meller Optics offers a broad range of IR and broadband optics that can be custom fabricated to meet precise military, commercial, and research application requirements. They can be produced as detector windows, filter substrates, front surface optics, viewports, and related applications with or without A/R ...

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have successfully 3D printed optical-quality glasses, on par with commercial glass products currently on the market. They have produced small test pieces from Lab-developed ink with properties “within range of commercial optical grade ...

Diffraction gratings are curious things. Score a series of equally spaced tiny lines in a surface, and it will cause reflected or transmitted light to bend and separate into its component wavelengths. This ability gives them all manner of important applications in the field of optics, but they're also fun to play with.

Those devices, however, tend to be built by hand with bulk optics. Efforts to integrate precision spectroscopy of atomic vapors onto smaller-footprint devices have generally taken one of two approaches: sending light through a small waveguide, and having the evanescent light near the waveguide interact ...

White Point Optics is a Finnish company that takes vintage Hasselblad optics and reengineers them to perform at their peak performance for filmmaking. The look of the vintage lenses gives the image a lot of character that compliments modern high detail images that come from digital cinema cameras.

“Due to the level of testing and detailed data increasingly required by OEM customers, it was necessary to look at ways to automate and improve assembly and testing procedures,” said Peter Chamberlain, production manager at Resolve Optics. “The new precision lens system centering station will enable ...

After having developed laser polishing, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen, Germany, has now also developed an ablative process for the ultraprecise machining of optics. Laser Beam Figuring (LBF) enables an ablation of less than 5 nm. For the first time, a complete process chain ...

Young Optics saw its consolidated revenues grow 69.95% on month and 72.1% on year to a four-year high of NT$507 million (US$17.31 million) in March thanks to increased shipments of pico-projectors to China. According to IDC, sales of projector products totaled 3.16 million units in China in 2017, ...

12 Apr 2018. Deal to buy Black Forest Engineering brings another 30 engineers in-house, as initial shipments of new sensors begin. Luminar's next-gen lidar. Automotive lidar system developer Luminar Technologies says it is ready to scale production of a new sensing platform, with initial units already shipping to its four ...

Imagine the American president going on a fast to tame an intransigent US Congress, or the British prime minister staying hungry because members of parliament (MPs) weren't falling in line. If it sounds bizarre, then here's some news from India: Prime minister Narendra Modi is on a day-long fast today ...

Horticultural lighting in its various forms is an emerging trend in the LED lighting business. As energy efficient light sources, LEDs are replacing conventional HDI lamps as grow lights. But LEDs are not perfect, their relatively low output compared to discharge lamps means the light they produce must be ...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 10, 2018--US patent 9,935,503 to Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. signals a new era in the field of optics and imaging. The newly patented invention, a flat lens, uses fractal metamaterials to bend electromagnetic waves. This ?source patent?, the very first issued ...

Fiber optics, or optical fiber, refers to the medium and the technology associated with the transmission of information as light pulses along a glass or plastic strand or fiber. A fiber optic cable can contain a varying number of these glass fibers -- from a few up to a couple hundred. Surrounding the glass fiber core is another ...

An exciting new breakthrough in the field of 3D printed optics was recently achieved by a team of researchers based at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Scientists and engineers that worked on the optics project developed a new 3D printing technique that made use of special ...

The government of the United Kingdom has confirmed that it will make £20 million (US$28.1 million) in “pioneer funding” available to support R&D on three to five “prototype quantum-enabled devices” that could find a place in future sensor technology, navigation systems and other areas. The £20 million ...

Latest research study from HTF MI with title Global Medical Fiber Optics by Manufacturers, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2023. The Research report presents a complete assessment of the market and contains Future trend, Current Growth Factors, attentive opinions, facts, historical data, and ...

Questale released a detailed assessment of trends in Global Medical Fiber Optics market. The research report includes diverse topics like total market size, key market drivers, challenges, growth opportunities, key players etc. We have also covered key market updates, the impact of regulations and ...

The hawk lit on the metal roof of the aging equipment barn and perched there while a group of groundbreaking celebrants gathered below him on the roadway in the East Tennessee Progress Center, a 900-acre industrial park located south of the city of Morristown. Read All Headlines ...

3D printed glass optics, LLNL, US, 3D printing process, silica, geometric Depositing the LLNL-developed material in paste form and then heating the entire print to form the glass allows for a uniform refractive index, eliminating optical distortion that would degrade the optic's function. (Representative image: ...

With only three games remaining before the nightmare that New York's 2017-18 season has been comes to a close, there isn't much new information to glean from the current roster players. Outside of letting Filip Chytil and Lias Andersson enjoy their first taste of NHL action, the rest of the team's roster ...

The custom inks, aimed at forming silica and silica-titania glasses, allow researchers the ability to tune the glass's optical, thermal and mechanical properties, Dylla-Spears said. For the study, researchers printed small, simple-shaped optics as proof of concept, but Dylla-Spears said the technique eventually ...

IMAGE. Optical components designed in IBELIVE will enable a new generation of head-up displays. (Courtesy Osram Opto Semiconductors). Osram Opto Semiconductors (Regensburg, Germany), together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF (Jena), TEMICON ...

MANILA, Philippines – Listed Philippine Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (PT&T), an aspiring 3rd major telecommunications player, is studying if it can use "dark fiber" optic cables in the country's transmission lines for its own nationwide broadband network. Ahead of the bidding for the selection of a ...

In his 2nd edition on Tunable Laser Optics, the author has provided a very accessible and practical reference, which should be of great interest to applied scientists and graduate students involved in laser optics research. Beyond the introductory topics on lasers and Dirac optics, the reader is quickly guided ...

Business travelers are increasingly looking to tack on leisure portions to their work trips, but many are concerned with how it comes across to their employers. These findings are part of a new study from Egencia, the Expedia-owned travel management company, on the habits of bleisure travelers. Surveying ...

As the number of sporting and hobby shooters increase, so does demand for affordable firearms accessories. But the law enforcement officer's patrol rifle is a not a recreational implement. A $200 optic will likely suffice for trips to the range, but the budget buyer should be prepared to re-zero and replace it ...

Board approved easements for Massillon-based MCTV to allow the company to install fiber optic stations on school-owned land. DISCUSSION The board delayed action on the easements in February to review a request to place one of the stations, a metal box where fiber optic lines will be centralized, ...

FISBA, a provider of optical components and systems, will exhibit at SPIE DCS at Booth 1223, 17–19 April 2018 in Orlando, Florida (US). FISBA designs and manufactures custom micro optics for many defense and security applications, such as low-light imaging, thermal imaging, IR sensing and more.

FISBA's precision glass molding technology offers a cost effective and scalable solution for defense applications requiring advanced optics. In addition, infrared optics are molded using chalcogenide glass, which is a cost effective alternative to germanium that does not suffer the effects of thermal darkening.

Celebrating 20 years in business in 2018, Search Optics boasts a client base of 3,000 customers worldwide and maintains 13 offices in North America, APAC, EMEA and LATAM. According to Search Optics CEO David Ponn, the funding will enable the company to expand service to global clients in ...

San Diego, Calif: Search Optics®, a digital marketing provider with expertise in the automotive industry, today announced it has secured a new round of private equity funding to fuel continued worldwide expansion and strengthen U.S. operations. Financial terms of the funding, which also included ...

Resolution is one of the most commonly misconstrued and improperly defined descriptions of performance. Misconceptions include the role of temporal and spatial bandwidth, the effects of filtering, and central effects related to detector noise, physical optics, and aberrations. A contributor to the ...

"TDCs are widely used because of their low-cost, multichannel capability and high detection count rate. What is new here in the diffuse optics field is the simultaneous use of SiPMs and TDCs to create a macro-pixel detector, formed by an array of different SiPMs in an area of a few square millimeters.".