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MILITARY & DEFENSE NEWS
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The Rise Of Digital Twins In Photonics
Digital twins, virtual replicas of physical objects, aid in design, monitoring, and optimization across industries, including photonics.
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The Use Of Hyperspectral Imaging By The Military
Hyperspectral imaging is used in many industries, including defense. The data mined from this process can be the difference between winning and losing a war.
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Directed Energy Weapons: From The Mirrors Of Archimedes To Iron Beam
The U.S., China, France, Germany, the U.K., Russia, India, Israel, and Pakistan are all working to develop military-grade directed energy weapons. While mostly in the developmental stage, they are fast becoming the practical, high-performance military option of tomorrow.
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A Look At GeoXO, NOAA's Next Weather Satellite
Scheduled for launch in the early 2030s, GeoXO is intended as an upgrade to NOAA’s current GOES-R of weather satellites, with an anticipated lifetime through 2055.
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Look Out Hubble And Webb, Here Comes Roman
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is set to launch by May 2027. Learn more about this engineering marvel, as well as the scientific pioneer after whom it was named.
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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Technology involving military and industrial imaging applications is prevalent at DSS this year, and Sensors Unlimited's was no exception. Check out the video to hear Bob Jones talk about two newer SWIR cameras for these two market segments, and what makes them a fit for each.
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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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Vincent Farley with Telops gives us an overview of the Hyper-Cam Hyperspectral Imaging System and its role in defense and security related applications such as standoff chemical detection and identification, characterization of rockets, missiles, and flares, and more.