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EyeCheck Offers 7800 Smart Camera for Capturing Extremely Small Objects in Highspeed

The EyeCheck 7xxx series by EVT has a free programmable FPGA. The EyeCheck 7800 smart camera for example has not only a Dual Core processor and an FPGA of 85K but also a 4.2 MegaPixel CMOS sensor.

From EVT Eye Vision Technology 7 May 2015

New Photon Correlation Spectroscopy-Based Method for Directly Measuring Sound Pressure

Accurate measurements of airborne sound are needed for a range of regulatory, health and safety, and commercial applications, from monitoring environmental noise to testing the performance of acoustic devices. To ensure reliable measurements of sound pressure, microphones must be regularly calibrated by measuring their sensitivity over a certain frequency range.

6 May 2015

University of Southampton Joins Two-Year Photonics4All Outreach Project

The University of Southampton is marking the 2015 International Year of Light, by taking part in a new project to help people and businesses throughout Europe understand the importance of photonics, the science of light.

4 May 2015

Trimble and Microsoft Partner to Provide HoloLens Wearable Holographic Technology for AEC Professionals

Trimble announced today that it is working with Microsoft to develop a new generation of tools, integrated with the HoloLens holographic platform on Windows 10, which are intended to improve quality, collaboration and efficiency in the design, construction and operation of buildings and structures. A proof of concept was demonstrated at Microsoft's Build Developer Conference held this week in San Francisco.

30 Apr 2015

High-Speed STAMP Camera Can Record Events at 1 Trillion Frames per Second

When a crystal lattice is excited by a laser pulse, waves of jostling atoms can travel through the material at close to one sixth the speed of light, or approximately 28,000 miles/second. Scientists now have a new tool to take movies of such superfast movement in a single shot.

30 Apr 2015

Novel Ultrafast Camera Captures Images in 2D

An NIBIB grantee has developed an ultrafast camera that can acquire two-dimensional images at 100 billion frames per second, a speed capable of revealing light pulses and other phenomena previously too fast to be observed.

29 Apr 2015

3D Measurement Techniques Based on Digital in-line Holography Help Understand Fiery Fuels

Transportation accidents, such as trucks crashing on a highway or rockets failing on a launch pad, can create catastrophic fires. It’s important to understand how burning droplets of fuel are generated and behave in those extreme cases, so Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed 3-D measurement techniques based on digital in-line holography.

28 Apr 2015

2015 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award Winners - AUREA Technology,Inrad Optics and Northrop Grumman

The CLEO 2015 co-sponsors (APS, IEEE Photonics Society, The Optical Society) and Laser Focus World today announced three winners for this year’s CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award. The CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards recognize outstanding companies that have made major contributions to advancing the field of optics and photonics through recently launched products and services.

28 Apr 2015

Ultra-Compact SWIFTS Spectrometer to Investigate Earth Tides and Quakes

A SWIFTS spectrometer from Resolution Spectra Systems has successfully measured tiny deformations of the Earth's crust, of the order of one millimeter, over a length of one thousand kilometers.

From Merck Chemicals GmbH, an affliate of Merck KGaA 27 Apr 2015

Inexpensive 3-D Capture Camera Produces High-Quality Images in all Environments

When Microsoft released the Kinect for Xbox in November 2010, it transformed the video game industry. The most inexpensive 3-D camera to date, the Kinect bypassed the need for joysticks and controllers by sensing the user's gestures, leading to a feeling of total immersion into the game. Microsoft sold 8 million Kinect units within 60 days, making it the fastest-selling electronic device ever.

25 Apr 2015