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  • Moiré Pattern - Description and Applications
    Article - 15 May 2014
    Moiré patterns occur when materials are overlapped with repetitive lines. It is a naturally occurring interference pattern created by overlaying similar but slightly offset templates.
  • Amici Prism - Definition and Applications
    Article - 6 May 2014
    Dispersive prism is a type of optical prism that divides the incident light into different colors of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • NASA's Kepler Space Telescope to Begin New Missions?
    Article - 16 Aug 2013
    Since its launch in 2009, the $600m Kepler Telescope has successfully accomplished its initial objectives of identifying new potentially habitable planets far away from Earth. But now after a couple...
  • Optical Atomic Clock Could Provide More Accurate Definition of a Second
    Article - 10 Jul 2013
    An international research team led by the Paris Observatory has developed an optical atomic clock based on strontium.
  • Zygo's LivePhase – Real-Time Optical Alignment System
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    LivePhase is a real-time optical alignment system from Zygo. LivePhase acquisition provides Zernike feedback and real-time phase (with optional fringe overlay) for active monitoring of toleranced or...
  • Construction of the Universe - Lego-like "building block" galaxies
    News - 14 Sep 2007
    The conventional model for galaxy evolution predicts that small galaxies in the early Universe evolved into the massive galaxies of today by coalescing. Nine Lego-like “building block”...
  • What is a Diffraction Grating?
    Article - 18 Jun 2013
    Diffraction grating comes into the picture when there is a need for separate light of different wavelengths with high resolution. A diffraction grating is a multiple slit arrangement made by etching...
  • What is a Collimator?
    Article - 10 Jun 2013
    A collimator may be described as a device that focuses or narrows a light beam or a stream of particles to be aligned in a different direction or reduce its cross section. The collimator focuses a...
  • Optical Lenses - How They Work and Types of Lens
    Article - 24 Jul 2013
    A lens can be described as an optical device that transmits and refracts the incident beam by converging or diverging it. A simple lens consists of a single optical element, while a compound lens is...
  • What is a Beamsplitter?
    Article - 5 Jun 2013
    Beamsplitters are elements that redirect a portion of the incident beam of light and allow the rest of the light to continue in the original direction.

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