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Creaform Introduces Three New Solutions To The R-Series Suite Of Automated Dimensional Quality Control Solutions

Lévis, Canada, October 19, 2021—Creaform, the worldwide leader in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, announced today the latest additions to its R-Series lineup, includi...

From Creaform Inc. 23 Nov 2021

Researchers Develop Compact, Power-Efficient Device that Modulates Visible Light Without Dimming It

Over the past several decades, researchers have moved from using electric currents to manipulating light waves in the near-infrared range for telecommunications applications such as high-speed 5G networks, biosensors on a chip, and driverless cars.

23 Nov 2021

Novel Photon Upconversion Systems with Heterojunctions of Bilayer Films of Organic Semiconductors

Photon upconversion (UC) is a process in which a material increases the energy of incident photons, resulting in the emission of photons with higher energies. The potential applications of UC include the recovery of wasted low-energy photons in photovoltaics and photocatalysis.

19 Nov 2021

New Method Poised to Enable Faster Prototyping of Customized Optical Components

Researchers have developed a way to create freeform optical components by shaping a volume of curable liquid polymer.

19 Nov 2021

Sensofar, the Leading-Edge Technology Group within the Surface Optical Metrology Field, Celebrates 20 Years of Business

2021 is a year of celebration for Sensofar, we have been in business for 20 years. Our beginning was enhanced by the passionate and entrepreneurial spirit of our founders, when they wanted to leverage their knowledge abo...

From Sensofar Metrology 18 Nov 2021

MKS Instruments Announces Ophir® Wide Beam Imager for Measuring Large and Divergent Beams of SWIR Wavelengths

MKS Instruments, Inc., a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, has announced the Ophir® Wide Beam Imager SWIR, a compact, calibrated optical system for measuring the size and power distribution of large and divergent beams of VCSELs and LEDs in the SWIR range.

From MKS Instruments, Inc. 17 Nov 2021

$Hyperbolic Metamaterial Exhibits Negative Refraction at Visible Frequency$

Hyperbolic Metamaterial Exhibits Negative Refraction at Visible Frequency

What color is the coronavirus- Conventional optical microscopes are unable to generate high-resolution, colored images of viruses and bacteria.

17 Nov 2021

Researchers Study Thickness-Related Optical Nonlinearity of SnS2 Material

Fiber lasers are widely used in the fields of optical communications, medical surgery, laser processing and lidar due to their advantages of good beam quality, compact structure, low cost and good compatibility.

16 Nov 2021

Researchers Distill Novel Interferometry into a Photonic Device

By merging two or more sources of light, interferometers create interference patterns that can provide remarkably detailed information about everything they illuminate, from a tiny flaw on a mirror, to the dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere, to gravitational patterns in far reaches of the Universe.

16 Nov 2021