Editor’s Picks
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Moritex Announces Non-Telecentric Lenses For Moving Part Inspection
3/28/2008
Designed to provide a real high performance alternative to CCTV lenses, Moritex has announced new additions to its ML-N Macro Lens range
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Prosilica Releases HD Resolution Camera With GigE Interface
11/28/2008
Prosilica is pleased to introduce the GE1910 high performance HD resolution industrial CCD camera with Gigabit Ethernet interface.
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4K Operating Room Technology Advancing, Despite Initial Doubts
8/8/2018
As the minimally invasive approach continues to become standard procedure, demand for surgical visualization equipment will continue to rise. Continued adoption of 4k technology is bolstering growth in the total U.S. video and integrated operating room equipment market, which currently is valued at almost $2.3 billion.
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World’s Smallest Atomic Clock On Sale
5/4/2011
A matchbook-sized atomic clock 100 times smaller than its commercial predecessors has been created by a team of researchers at Symmetricom Inc. Draper Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.
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Corning Delivers ABL Mirror to Contraves
4/14/1999
Corning Inc. (Corning, NY) delivered a 62-in. blank for the system's primary mirror to optical subcontractor Contraves Brashear Systems...
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Particles Of Light May Create Fluid Flow, Data-Theory Comparison Suggests
12/13/2022
A new computational analysis by theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Wayne State University supports the idea that photons (a.k.a. particles of light) colliding with heavy ions can create a fluid of “strongly interacting” particles.
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"Look Ma, no hands": Optical Sensors Take Over Wiper Controls
3/6/2000
An optically-based, moisture-activated system developed by TRW (Cleveland, OH) controls automotive windshield wipers, detecting how hard the rain or snow is falling and determining how fast to run the wiper motor.
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Understanding The Dynamics Of Droplets And Turbulence
7/20/2017
Turbulent flows laced with particles can be found everywhere, and include fuel droplets in combustion engines, airborne pollen, and water droplets in clouds. Even though they have been studied often, questions still remain that have to do with the particles’ inertia prohibiting them from following turbulence flow, making the Navier-Stokes equations insufficient for solving their equations. This white paper presents a project studying the dynamics of inertial droplets in a turbulent flow in a well-controlled environment. Measurements of droplet size distribution and turbulent dispersion rate in this study are done with interferometric particle imaging (IPI) and phosphorescent tagging techniques.
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Quantum Simulation More Stable Than Expected
4/16/2019
A localization phenomenon boosts the accuracy of solving quantum many-body problems with quantum computers which are otherwise challenging for conventional computers. This brings such digital quantum simulation within reach on quantum devices available today.
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Breakthrough Technique Yields Carbon Nanotubes Visible To The Naked Eye
5/14/2007
Using techniques that could revolutionize manufacturing for certain materials, researchers have grown carbon nanotubes that are the longest in the world. While still slightly less than 2 centimeters long, each nanotube is 900,000 times longer than its diameter