Featured Videos

1. Liquid Focus Lenses: Chance And Challenge 5/17/2023

   In this inVISION Tech Talk, our product manager Steffen Mahler discusses the chance and challenge of liquid focus lenses by Schneider Optics.

2. Why Alluxa? Precision Optical Filters And Thin-Film Coating 4/3/2023

   Alluxa has rapidly grown into a world leader in precision thin films and optical filters by refining our advanced SIRRUS Plasma Deposition process, designing and building our coating equipment, and a dedication to research and development.

3. Precision Motion, Automation And Positioning, Technologies Explained At PI's IMTS Booth 2022 3/7/2023

   A quick overview of precision motion and automation solutions for laser machining, metrology, 3D printing and active alignment at IMTS 2022.

4. Flexible, Fast Gantry Platform For Large-Area Photonic Test & Assembly: Photonics Automation 3/7/2023

   A precision gantry stage typically provides overhead motion in 2 or 3 linear degrees of freedom (X-Y and X-Y-Z) and is often used for pick and place applications, 3D printing or laser machining, precision handling, and electronics applications. 

5. Magnetic Levitation Nanopositioning Stage w/6DOF Control Technology Demonstrator 3/7/2023

   Magnetic Levitation, or MagLev, technology allows frictionless motion with resolution down to the sub-nanometer range as well as the active control of all 6 degrees of freedom, without any mechanical restrictions or connections.

6. The Power Of Piezo Transducers: Enabling Progress In Life Sciences, Semicon & Electronics Markets 3/7/2023

   Transducers are electro-mechanical devices that convert electrical energy to mechanical energy or vice versa. A well known and widely used transducer is the so-called "voice coil" transducer that is based on electromagnetic principles and finds applications in speakers and sub-woofers.

7. Closed-Loop Fast Focusing Nanopositioning Drives: Voice-Coil or Piezo - Your Choice 3/6/2023

   Voice coil drives with mechanical bearings and Piezo flexure mechanisms offer breakthroughs in travel range, reliability, flexibility, precision, and speed.

8. Hyperspectral Imaging Solutions For Industrial Automation And Beyond 2/3/2023

   As Photonics West 2023 winds down, we visit Mark Donaghy at the Raptor Photonics booth for a look at their line of SWIR and CMOS cameras and a new hyperspectral imaging system.

9. Specialty High-Quality Fiber Optic Solutions And Assemblies 2/2/2023

   Armadillo’s Mario Paredes joins us once again this year at Photonics West to teach us about the company’s custom, specialized optical fibers, cables, and assemblies and their numerous applications.

10. Detecting Illicit Drugs, Infectious Diseases And More With Raman Technology 2/2/2023

    On Day 3 of Photonics West 2023, Krisztina Voronova of Bayspec shows us one of her favorite products, the SERS Reader, a mini variable analyzer that provides full analytical solutions for a variety of applications.