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Unleashing the Potential of Ultrablack Coatings in Optical Systems

Sometimes total darkness is necessary to view clearly. Black paint coating devices can reduce stray light, improving images and performance for astronomy and precision optics, because every detail counts for the most sophisticated telescopes and optical systems, so their manufacturers search for the darkest black materials to coat them with.

13 Mar 2024

GE Renewable Energy Approves Nacelle Mounted Lidar ‘ZX TM’ from ZX Lidars for Power Performance Testing

GE Renewable Energy approves the use of the nacelle based Continuous Wave scanning Lidar ‘ZX TM’ from Lidar OEM ZX Lidars for Power Performance Testing.

1 Mar 2023

Microscope Inspired by James Webb Views in 6D

A new technique, partially influenced by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) design, uses mirror segments to sort and gather light on a microscopic scale and to take three-dimensional images of molecules in position and orientation.

7 Dec 2022

The Future of Freeform Wide Field-of-View Spaceborne Imaging

In a study published in Sensors, researchers proposed a spaceborne imaging telescope design that uses freeform optics.

2 Nov 2022

Enhance Clarity on Cosmos with New Approach to Telescope Mirrors

Researchers have created a new method for fabricating the high-precision, ultrathin mirrors needed for high-performance x-ray telescopes using femtosecond laser pulses.

21 Oct 2022

Lightweight Silicon X-Ray Space Telescopes Created Using MEMS Technology

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University led a team that cracked the conventional weight-versus-angular-resolution trade-off by developing historically lightweight optics for X-ray space telescopes.

18 Jul 2022

Max Planck Institute Uses Spectrum's Digitizer Cards to Measure Diameters of Distant Stars

The MAGIC telescopes on the Canary Island of La Palma were built to observe cosmic objects that emit high-energy gamma rays, i.e. supernovae or black holes. Astronomers also use the twin telescope to measure the diameter of stars to investigate the processes throughout their life cycle.

From Spectrum Instrumentation GmbH 26 Nov 2021

Metrology Instrument Provides Unprecedented Accuracy for Characterizing X-Ray Mirrors

X-ray mirrors are widely used for synchrotron radiation facilities, X-ray free-electron lasers and astronomical X-ray telescopes. The short wavelength and grazing incidence impose strict limits on the permissible slope errors.

29 Sep 2021

XCAM Specialist Digital Cameras to Reach Space First to Help Improve Space Missions

Thanks to significant UK Government funding for innovation in space technology, XCAM Ltd working with the Open University, developed new enhanced performance imaging technology to help enable the Open University conduct research support as part of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope (Roman Space Telescope/NASA) and as a flagship for space applications in the future.

From XCAM Ltd 17 Sep 2021

Study Lists Telescope Advances to Expand Scientific Understanding of the Universe

Researchers from The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, led by Professor Daewook Kim, consider advancements in optical engineering for future telescopes, in a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances.

2 Jul 2021