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Scientists Build Ultrasound Analogue of the Laser (Uaser)

News - 8 Jul 2007

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Missouri at Rolla have built an ultrasound analogue of the laser. Called a uaser (pronounced WAY-zer) -- for...

Astronomers Run an All-Sky Camera Network That Scans Sky Meteors

News - 20 Apr 2022

At 11:37 PM on Sunday, April 17th, 2022, a brilliant fireball was seen throughout southern Ontario by a network of all-sky cameras. According to the video data, bits of the meteor are most likely to...

Research Develops Ultrawide Bandgap Photodetectors in Real-World Applications

News - 20 Apr 2022

Several devices and detectors detect and categorize deep UV frequencies that would otherwise be absorbed by the Earth’s ozone layer. The majority of solar-blind space-borne imaging systems still...

SMART Researchers Discover New Way to Generate Light Through Use of Pre-existing Defects in Semiconductor Materials

News - 26 Oct 2021

Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in...

New Method to Assemble Multiple Micron-Scale Optical Devices on a Single Chip

News - 30 Sep 2021

Researchers have developed a highly accurate way to assemble multiple micron-scale optical devices extremely close together on a single chip. The new approach could one day allow high-volume...

New Device Uses Ultra-Short Pulse Laser Source for Material Processing

News - 21 Jun 2021

A special laser device was recently acquired by the engineering sciences at the University of Bayreuth. This device was fitted with an ultra-short pulse laser source for material processing. Kira...

Lidar Technology can Enable Higher-Resolution Detection of Nearby Fast-Moving Objects

News - 16 Jul 2020

A self-driving car has a hard time recognizing the difference between a toddler and a brown bag that suddenly appears into view because of limitations in how it senses objects using lidar. The...

XIMEA Honored by Vision Systems Design Magazine Awards Program

News - 6 Jul 2020

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...

New Technique to Monitor Quality of Laser Welding in Real Time

News - 26 Jun 2020

Laser welding is a process suitable for joining metals and thermoplastics. It has become particularly well established in highly automated production, for example in the automotive industry, because a...

UVC Light-Emitting Diodes Show Promise in Fighting Hospital Germs

News - 26 May 2020

The Robert Koch Institute reports that every year, Germany experiences 400,000 to 600,000 infections that are caused by hospital germs and lead to the death of approximately 10,000 to 20,000...