A series of publications in the journal Nature highlights the race among competing research groups toward the long-anticipated goal of quantum networking.
Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced the Agilent Medalist SJ50 Series 3 Automated Optical Inspection system (AOI), whose unique imaging chain and powerful inspection algorithms qualify it as the industry's best AOI.
A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world's first material that reflects virtually no light.
Supermarket freezers may soon look a lot brighter while demanding less energy, thanks to LED lighting.
Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won six R&D 100 Awards, presented each year by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological innovations.
Being the delicate optical instruments that they are, spectrometers are pretty picky about light.
A new light source based on fiber-optic technology promises to improve the inspection of food, produce, paper, currency, recyclables and other products.
A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world's first material that reflects virtually no light.
The Optical Society of America's (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics 2006, will cover the breadth of optical science and engineering.
MIT researchers are trying to unleash the promise of an old idea by converting light into electricity more efficiently than ever before.