Editor’s Picks
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4D Technology Introduces A New Dynamic Interferometer System With Twice The Spatial Sampling
3/15/2005
The new PhaseCam 4010 is a high performance, dynamic Tywaman Green interferometer system that offers twice the spatial sampling of the original PhaseCam from 4D.
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TRUMPF And RSP Systems Want To Make Blood Glucose Monitoring Easier For People With Diabetes
1/9/2023
TRUMPF Photonic Components and RSP Systems want to make life easier for people with diabetes. Instead of having to prick with a needle or wear an implant, in the future people with diabetes will simply be wearing a wrist-worn device that reads their glucose with a minilaser.
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Flipping An Egg Carton Of Light Traps Giant Atoms
12/28/2011
In an egg carton of laser light, University of Michigan physicists can trap giant Rydberg atoms with up to 90 percent efficiency, an achievement that could advance quantum computing and terahertz imaging, among other applications.
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Coherent To Showcase A Broad Portfolio Of Product And Technology Innovations At Photonics West And BiOS Expo
1/26/2023
Coherent Corp. (Nasdaq: COHR), a global leader in materials, networking, and lasers, announced today that it will exhibit industry-leading products and capabilities at SPIE Photonics West, Jan. 31-Feb. 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Booth #4805 (Hall D, Exhibit Level), and at BiOS Expo Jan. 28-29, part of Photonics West, in Booth #8320 (Hall F, Exhibit Level North).
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Urgent Action Required to Halt H-1B Visa Bill
9/9/1998
IEEE-USA has issued a call to action urging members and other technical professionals to tell Congress not to expand the H-1B visa program without providing effective worker safeguards
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SpectraSensors Provides Tunable Diode Laser — An Increasingly Vital Process Tool
8/14/2008
The ability to detect and measure the presence of moisture and problematic compounds in gas streams has become increasingly vital to the protection of process integrity, plant safety, the avoidance of pollution and preservation of plant infrastructure assets in refineries and chemical processing industries
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Future Information Technologies: Nanoscale Heat Transport Under The Microscope
8/21/2018
A research team from the Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB) and the University of Potsdam has investigated the heat transfer in a model system of nanometer-thin metallic and magnetic layers.
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Atomically Thin, Flexible, Semi-Transparent Solar Cells Created
3/9/2014
Ultrathin layers made of Tungsten and Selenium have been created at the Vienna University of Technology; experiments show that they may be used as flexible, semi-transparent solar cells.
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Specialised Imaging Introduces 2 Million Frames/Second Digital Video Camera
10/11/2012
Specialised Imaging Ltd., the leading technological innovator in ultra high-speed imaging, has introduced Kirana - a new ultra high-speed video camera that combines the flexibility of video technology with the resolution of an ultra high speed framing camera.
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Scientists Mimic Fireflies To Make Brighter LEDs
1/8/2013
The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original.