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Fiber-Optic Cable Enables the Most Detailed Measurements of Ice Properties on Greenland Ice Sheet

Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ever taken on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

17 May 2021

New Technique to "Flip" the Optical Wavefront Prevents Distortions in Multimode Fibers

The use of multimode optical fibers to boost the information capacity of the Internet is severely hampered by distortions that occur during the transmission of images because of a phenomenon called modal crosstalk.

11 May 2021

Study Details Use of Fiber Optic Cable to Detect Minor Earthquakes in Antarctica

The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America saw scientists describing how fiber optic cable is being used to detect minor earthquakes that take place in ice in the Antarctica region.

26 Apr 2021

New Method Helps Create Colors on Metal that can be Changed, Erased, Rewritten

Scientists are slowly clearing the boundary between science and art by exhibiting how to use a laser to make artistic masterpieces such that they replicate classical brushes and paints.

20 Apr 2021

Researchers Demonstrate a Broadband Mid-Infrared Source for Remote Sensing

A research team of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences, National Institute for Fusion Science and Akita Prefectural University have successfully demonstrated a broadband mid-infrared (MIR) source with a simple configuration.

1 Apr 2021

CyberOptics to Showcase Metrology and Inspection Solutions at SEMICON China

CyberOptics® Corporation, a leading global developer and manufacturer of high-precision 3D sensing technology solutions, will feature the WX3000™ metrology and inspection system with Multi-Reflection Suppression™ (MRS™) sensor technology at SEMICON China, scheduled to take place March 17-19, 2021 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, hall N1, booth 1387 and 1325. The company also will demonstrate high-precision WaferSense® sensors for semiconductor tool setup and diagnostics.

12 Mar 2021

Waters Improves Ease and Reliability of Small Molecule Analysis with ACQUITY RDa Detector

Waters Corporation today released the ACQUITY RDa™ Detector featuring SmartMS™, the company’s newest time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer (MS) for small molecule analysis for pharmaceutical, academic, food, and forensics applications. The accurate-mass ACQUITY™ RDa Detector can be quickly deployed and operated to enable faster and more informed decision-making across a broad set of applications.

From Waters Corporation 11 Mar 2021

Lynred Invests €2.8M to Develop Next-Generation Infrared Detectors Under Program Backed by French Government

Lynred, a leading global provider of high-quality infrared detectors for the aerospace, military and consumer markets, today announces that it will invest €2.8 million ($3.37 M) in developing next- generation infrared (IR) detectors. Lynred will receive €900,000 ($1.08 M) in R&D funding from the French government as part of a program to revamp the microelectronics ecosystem in France.

From LYNRED 5 Mar 2021

Study Highlights Exceptional Optical Property of Hollow-Core Fibers

Researchers from the University of Southampton and Université Laval, Canada, have successfully measured for the first time back-reflection in cutting-edge hollow-core fibres that is around 10,000 times lower than conventional optical fibres.

17 Feb 2021