Editor’s Picks

31. An Introduction To Optical Filters 1/8/2024

    Optical filters are essential to optical systems used in many different fields. Expand your understanding of optical filters, their types, working principles, and applications with this overview.

32. New Shapes Of Photons Open Doors To Advanced Optical Technologies 7/5/2024

    In their recent paper, researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands have gained important insights into the elementary particles that make up light.

33. PhD Student Who Dreamed Of Being An Inventor And Builder Is Now Making Strides In World Of Quantum Photonics 8/22/2024

    Growing up, Samuel Peana loved to build things. The world was his playground for tinkering and taking apart common things and discovering how they work — especially the inner workings of computers and potential interconnections between computers and robots, an interest sparked by his father, who was an engineer for Motorola.

34. Photon Collisions: Photonic Billiards Might Be The Newest Game 5/19/2016

    When one snooker ball hits another, both spring away from each other in an elastic manner. In the case of two photons a similar process – the elastic collision – has never been observed.

35. Researchers Discover Novel Exciton Interactions In Carbon Nanotubes 2/14/2018

    Nanotechnology researchers studying small bundles of carbon nanotubes have discovered an optical signature showing excitons bound to a single nanotube are accompanied by excitons tunneling across closely interacting nanotubes.

36. New Nanotube Coating Enables Novel Laser Power Meter 5/6/2009
    The U.S. military can now calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily thanks to a novel nanotube-coated power measurement device developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
37. Researchers Create World's First High-Performance Infrared Camera Based On Type-II InAs/GaSb Superlattices 12/6/2010
    Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new infrared camera based on Type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices that produces much higher resolution images than previous infrared cameras.
38. Making Waves At The Museum: The Interactive Science Exhibit Based On A Real-Life Gravitational-Wave Detector 8/23/2021

    modeled of a real-life gravitational-wave detector to explain gravitational-wave science. It was developed by an international team, which includes researchers now at the OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).

39. Princeton Infrared Introduces SWIR Linear Array With Lowest Read Noise Available At SPIE DCS 2016 4/20/2016

    Princeton Infrared Technologies, Inc. (PIRT), will premiere the revolutionary 1024L1-12.5-T Linear Array will be showcased in booth #952 at SPIE Defense & Commercial Symposium (DCS), April 19-21, 2016, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD. This indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) sensor is designed for both spectroscopy and machine vision in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectrum.  The linear array provides 1024 x 1 resolution with a small 12.5 micron pitch and delivers the lowest read noise currently available at <550e- for a 250 µm tall pixel. 

40. Fonon Awarded Laser-Based 3D Subtractive Materials Contract 2/8/2015

    Fonon Technologies, a laser-based systems provider for both 3D Subtractive Materials Processing Systems and 3D Additive Materials Manufacturing Systems awarded contract by Jay Industries for automotive application.