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New Photonic System Shows Promise in Medical Implant Technology

Over the past few decades, medical technology seen various advances in terms of the scope and efficiency of implant devices.

8 Jul 2020

Researchers Achieve Achromatic and Chromatic Focusing with Single Metalens

With the advent of metasurfaces, a new door has opened for the advancement of planar optics. Of the several metadevices, the metalens has gained extensive attention for practical applications in spectroscopy and imaging, where it enables multifunctional wavefront manipulations for enhanced focus.

7 Jul 2020

New Graphene-Based Ultrathin Lens for Advanced Pixel-Based Devices

Spatial occupancy presents design limitations in conventional tunable lenses containing complex lenses with a manipulation system, ultimately limiting the applications of these lenses in next-generation pixel-based devices, like flat panel displays.

7 Jul 2020

XIMEA Honored by Vision Systems Design Magazine Awards Program

XIMEA GmbH, the innovator of scientific grade cameras, was presented with an award at the Sixth Annual Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards presentation, which celebrates the disparate and innovative technologies, products, and systems found in machine vision and imaging.

From XIMEA GmbH 6 Jul 2020

New IR-Based Non-Contact Way to Measure Thermal Properties of Materials

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) have used a new technique termed depth thermography to remotely find the temperature beneath the surface of specific materials.

3 Jul 2020

Wasatch Photonics Adds 1600 nm OCT Spectrometer for Deep Tissue Imaging

Wasatch Photonics has expanded its Cobra OCT spectrometer product line with a new 1600 nm OCT spectrometer for deep-tissue, SD-OCT imaging. The Cobra 1600 builds on the company’s existing line of more than 25 off-the-shelf OCT spectrometer models at visible, 800 nm, 1050 nm, and 1300 nm wavelengths, with camera speeds up to 250 kHz.

From Wasatch Photonics, Inc. 30 Jun 2020