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OSI Optoelectronics Provides Optimized Nd:YAG Photodiodes for Military/Aerospace Applications

OSI Optoelectronics (OSIO), an OSI Systems Company, offers high-response N-on-P YAG series of photodetectors that are optimized at 1060 nm for critical military and aerospace sensing applications. The YAG laser light wav...

From OSI Optoelectronics 16 Aug 2018

NSF Awards $1.2M to Rochester Institute of Technology, University of California-San Diego, University of Delaware to Leverage AIM Photonics’ World-Class R&D and Foundry Capabilities

The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics, a public-private partnership headquartered in New York State to advance the nation’s photonics manufacturing capabilities, today announced that three National Science Foundation (NSF) funded grants totaling $1.2 million will enable collaborative photonics-centered R&D with the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), University of California-San Diego (UCSD), and University of Delaware (UD), respectively.

16 Aug 2018

Hollow Motorized Rotary Actuators

ServoBelt Rotary Stage offers an economical solution for a variety of light and medium-duty rotary motion applications.

From IntelLiDrives, Inc. 16 Aug 2018

Series Production Start: Four New ace U Models with the IMX287 and IMX273 Sensors from Sony

The four new ace U GigE models from camera manufacturer Basler feature resolutions of VGA and 1.6 megapixels and have now moved into series production. They are equipped with the IMX287 and IMX273 sensors from Sony's...

From Basler AG 14 Aug 2018

EyeVision Supports Hyperspectral Imaging

The EyeVision software now also can process and evaluate hyperspectral images. Therefore the software will support the hyperspectral camera by Photonfocus in the near future. It is a camera based on an IMEC sensor with narrow pass band filters with a wavelength region form 600 nm to 1000 nm.

10 Aug 2018

The He Research Group at the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, UMD

Market leaders in temperature-controlled microscopy and leaders in sample characterization solutions, Linkam Scientific Instruments, reports on the research of Professor Xiaoming “Shawn” He of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland.

10 Aug 2018

Incorporating Soft Hardware into Textiles for Use as Communication Systems

The most recent advancement in fibers and textiles is a type of soft hardware that can be worn—cloth including electronic devices incorporated directly into it.

9 Aug 2018

Novel Precision Rotary Table Enables World Record in Fastest 3D Tomographic Images

A team of researchers from HZB has created an innovative precision rotary table at the EDDI beamline at BESSY II and integrated it with specifically rapid optics. This allowed them to record pore formation in grains of metal at the time of foaming processes at 25 tomographic images per second—a world record.

9 Aug 2018

Physicists Investigate Holes in Light by Tying Light Beams in Knots

A research partnership has formulated a new method of assessing how light flows through space - by tying knots in it.

3 Aug 2018

Advanced Photodetector Camera to be Deployed in NASA’s Robotic Refueling Mission 3

An advanced, highly compact thermal camera has been fitted in a corner of the RRM3 & will image and videotape Earth’s surface.

3 Aug 2018

Novel Optical Fiber Can Detect Materials Surrounding Them

Scientists at EPFL have created an optical fiber with the ability to detect the type of liquid or material it has come into contact with.

3 Aug 2018

Laser-Assisted Process to Develop Hard Carbon-Based Anode Material

The lithium-ion batteries used at present can be replaced by sodium-ion batteries since they use the low-cost and more abundant sodium resource.

31 Jul 2018

Improved Camera Performance

Princeton Instruments, the leading developer and manufacturer of advanced scientific CCD, sCMOS and InGaAs cameras, is pleased to announce a significant improvement in the performance of its popular NIRvana:640 short-wave infrared (SWIR) cameras.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 31 Jul 2018

$Diffractive Deep Neural Network Enables Execution of Computational Problems at Speed of Light$