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LightMachinery Acquires the Impact® and LaserMark® Product Lines from GSI Group

LightMachinery Inc. is pleased to announce that it has concluded an agreement with GSI Group to purchase the Impact and LaserMark product lines.

From LightMachinery 20 Aug 2019

LightMachinery Receives it First (of many) ISO9001:2000 Certifications

LightMachinery Inc., a world leader in the production of optical components and optical fabrication equipment, has achieved ISO9001:2000 certification.

From LightMachinery 20 Aug 2019

On a Voyage of Discovery with IDS Cameras

Germany's largest Science Centre, experimenta, is located in Heilbronn, Germany: since April 2019, it offers around 275 exciting exhibits in three exhibition worlds on an area of around 25,000 square meters.

20 Aug 2019

Researchers Apply New Principle to Produce Terahertz Radiation

The “Landau-level laser” presents an interesting concept for an extraordinary radiation source. This kind of laser can efficiently produce what is known as terahertz waves.

19 Aug 2019

New Minimally Invasive Tool for Imaging Features Inside Living Tissues

Scientists have created an innovative self-calibrating endoscope that generates 3D images of objects that are smaller than a single cell.

19 Aug 2019

Discover High Performance and Comfort in Clinical Microscopy

Olympus will be displaying the culmination of 100 years of expertise in optics at booth R43 of the ECP in Nice from 7 to 11 September 2019. The 4K UHD UC90 camera, the new high-performance X Line objectives and the ergonomic BX46 microscope have each been carefully designed to enhance pathology workflows.

From Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG 16 Aug 2019

$Study Reveals Progress in Diffractive Optical Neural Network Performances$

Study Reveals Progress in Diffractive Optical Neural Network Performances

A new study, reported in the open-access journal Advanced Photonics, co-published by SPIE (the international society for optics and photonics) and Chinese Laser Press (CLP), has shown that there have been evident improvements in the inference and generalization performance of diffractive optical neural networks.

14 Aug 2019

New Study Aims to Model Light Transmission in Plasmonic-Photonic Crystals

A research team led by Professor Myakzyum Salakhov has been analyzing the problem of optical states in plasmonic-photonic crystals (PPCs). The team mostly includes young researchers, some of whom started contributing to the study during their student years.

13 Aug 2019

Inhibition of Light Scattering Could Improve Fiber Optic Communication

A technique for redirecting misfit light waves to minimize energy loss in the process of optical data transmission has been developed by engineers from the University of Illinois.

13 Aug 2019

Engineers Develop World’s Thinnest Optical Resonator for Visible Light

A waveguide with a thickness of three layers of atoms—which is the world’s thinnest optical device—has been developed by engineers from the University of California San Diego.

13 Aug 2019

Metrology Service Provider Expands with Second LK CMM

Contract inspection and reverse engineering capacity has doubled in terms of throughput, while the size of component that can be measured has increased more than five-fold at Laser Scanning Ltd, based in Chapeltown, near Sheffield (www.laser-scanning.co.uk).

From Laser Scanning 13 Aug 2019

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 purposely aimed at their pilots, and in past week, five aircraft were targeted as they flew in to land at Glasgow Airport in Scotland.

From Andor Technology Ltd. 13 Aug 2019

Pixelink® Adds 20 MP Ultra-High Definition/High QE Camera Models

Pixelink, a global provider of industrial cameras for the machine vision and microscopy markets, announced today the release of their 20 MP ultra-high resolution and high quantum efficiency USB 3.0 camera models incorporating the Sony IMX183 CMOS rolling shutter sensor.

From Pixelink 13 Aug 2019

BitFlow Debuts NVIDIA-Powered CoaXPress Embedded Vision Solution at Laser World Of Photonics

BitFlow, Inc., a global innovator in frame grabber technology, underscored its commitment to embedded vision by demonstrating a high-speed CoaXPress-NVIDIA® embedded imaging system at the recent Laser World of Photonics Show in Munich, Germany.

From Bitflow, Inc. 13 Aug 2019

Focus Tracking Optical Zoom Lenses

Resolve Optics is a leading international supplier of compact, high performance off-the-shelf and custom optical zoom lenses. These lenses can be supplied either motorised or non-motorised and provide focus tracking throughout their zoom range.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 13 Aug 2019