Editor’s Picks

  1. New Program To Expand, Enhance Use Of LIDAR Sensing Technology 10/14/2011
    Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new system that will enable highway construction engineers in the field to immediately analyze soil movements caused by active landslides and erosion and use the powerful tool of LIDAR to better assess and deal with them.
  2. Researchers Link Atoms-On-A-Chip With A Superconducting Microwave Resonator 12/21/2017

    Today’s quantum technologies are set to revolutionize information processing, communications, and sensor technology in the coming decades.

  3. B&W Tek Announces Enhanced High Resolution Raman System With Smart Spectrometer Technology 1/30/2013

    B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser systems, is proud to announce the i-Raman Plus portable Raman spectrometer.

  4. Atoms To Product: Aiming To Make Nanoscale Benefits Life-Sized 8/22/2014

    Many common materials exhibit different and potentially useful characteristics when fabricated at extremely small scales—that is, at dimensions near the size of atoms, or a few ten-billionths of a meter.

  5. Del Mar Photonics Announces New Mavericks Long Wavelength Femtosecond Laser 3/13/2007
    Del Mar Photonics, Inc. expands in vivo cell and tissue imaging capabilities with Mavericks, a long wavelength femtosecond laser. With wavelength tunable within the range of 1.21 - 1.29 mm, Mavericks combines the advantages of femtosecond optical engineering and fiber-optic technologies
  6. Successful Graphene Synthesis Out Of Single Molecules 12/13/2013

    Mainz. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) working with Xinliang Feng and Klaus Müllen succeeded in producing remarkably long, structurally well-defined and liquid-phase-processable graphene nanoribbons (GNRs).

  7. Morgan Advanced Materials Launches Piezoelectric Transducers Used In Ring Laser Gyroscopes 2/25/2016

    Morgan Advanced Materials, a global leader in ceramics and other advanced materials, has developed the capability to design and manufacture piezoelectric transducers for use in ring laser gyroscope (RLG) technologies, used in a variety of high-precision applications.

  8. 3D Particle Tracking? There's An App For That 8/20/2017

    Using four low-cost smartphone cameras and some simple colored backlighting, KAUST researchers have dispensed with expensive research-grade camera equipment and dangerous lasers to construct a tomographic particle image velocimetry (PIV) system that is capable of quantitative flow visualization.

  9. OSI Laser Diode To Showcase High-Power Pulsed Laser Diode Modules At OFC 2017 3/7/2017

    OSI Laser Diode, Inc. will be showcasing two high-power pulsed laser diode modules, specially designed for optical spectrum analyzers (OSA) and optical time domain reflectometers (OTDR), at the upcoming OFC Conference in OSI’s booth #2754, March 21 - 23, 2017, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  The SCW 1632-350R and the SCW 1532-500R are specially designed for optical test equipment applications where high-peak-pulsed optical power is required.  The high-power devices are housed in 14-pin butterfly packages, optically coupled to SMF fiber pigtails. 

  10. New Silicon Promises Sunnier Days For Solar Tech 4/24/2019

    An international research team led by The Australian National University (ANU) has made a new type of silicon that better uses sunlight and promises to cut the cost of solar technology