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MILITARY & DEFENSE NEWS
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High-Speed Cameras: Trends, Innovations, And The Challenges Ahead
High-speed cameras are advancing into new spectral bands, integrating AI, and enhancing sensitivity, but challenges such as data bottlenecks and trade-offs persist.
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How Thin-Film Coating Advancements Are Improving Device Performance
Thin-film coatings – crucial in telecommunications, healthcare diagnostics, consumer electronics, aerospace defense, automotive, and industrial automation – continue to evolve, and their role in enabling high-capacity data transmission and improving device functionality is becoming more prominent.
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Beyond The Surface: How Laser Technology Revolutionized Marine Mapping
From George Hickman's 1968 pioneering flight to NASA's space-based systems, bathymetric LiDAR has revolutionized underwater mapping and marine exploration.
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How Machine Vision Transformed Fiber-Optic Reliability
Automated machine vision paired with photonics revolutionized fiber-optic connectivity in the 1990s, enabling consistent, high-speed internet by ensuring connectors remained clear of microscopic defects.
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Photonics Redefined: Crystalline Coatings And Graphene In Advanced Optics
Explore the latest breakthroughs in crystalline optical coatings and graphene-based photonic components, highlighting their mechanisms and transformative applications.
MILITARY & DEFENSE VIDEOS
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Discover how Zygo's precision and reliability support mission-critical aerospace and defense applications with ruggedized optical components and market-leading metrology technology.
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Telops has responded to the request of their customers for a smaller version of their Hyper-Cam hyperspectral camera and has miniaturized it enough so that it can be integrated into smaller systems and packages.
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Craig Taylor with Qioptiq, an Excelitas Technologies Company spent some time with us on day two of the DSS exhibition to give us an overview of some of his division’s work in optical modules and systems used in the aerospace and defense markets. He then turns it over to Eric Desfonds with Excelitas so he could catch us up on some of their more recent product developments, including their newly launched N-type quadrant detectors.
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In this video, Precision Optics Corp president Joe Forkey gives us a brief overview of his company and then gives us a closer look at some of the things they featured at their Photonics West booth.
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In this video, Jim Hooker, from L-3 Applied Optics Center, gives us an overview of his company and their capabilities.
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Eric Desfonds with Excelitas runs us through their offerings displayed at SPIE DSS 2013.
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George Murray, sales manager at Inrad Optics, walks us through his company’s array of non-linear crystals for q-switches and frequency doubling devices, solar blind filters for early warning missile detection, and much more.