Low absorption coefficient and high resistance to thermal shock

Zinc Selenide Plano-Convex (PCX) Lenses are available individually, in diameters of 12.7, 25.4 and 50.8mm with a variety…

The three men worked for almost 15 years to solve this problem posed by the famous mathematician and philosopher Gian-Ca…

MicOS is a fully integrated and flexible microspectrometer that combines a versatile microscope head directly coupled to…

University of Warwick scientists have shown how to tie knots in liquid crystals using a miniature Möbius strip made from…

One-of-a-kind spectrometer reads vibrations between atoms to find structures of molecules

By measuring the vibrations between atoms using femtosecond-long laser pulses, the Rice lab of chemist Junrong Zheng is…

Metamaterials are man-made structures that exhibit properties not possible in natural materials, such as refracting ligh…

The new electron beam writer housed in the Nano3 cleanroom facility at the Qualcomm Institute is important for electrica…

Bending light beams to your whim sounds like a job for a wizard or an a complex array of bulky mirrors, lenses and prism…

Berkeley Lab Researchers Discover a Tiny Twist in Bilayer Graphene That May Solve a Mystery

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discove…

NIST physicists report in the Aug. 22 issue of Science Express that the ytterbium clocks' tick is more stable than any o…

Nanostructured device controls the intensity, phase, and polarization of light for wide applications in optics

This is the first time a single, simple device has been designed to control these three major properties of light at onc…

“One tool for all surfaces, without compromise.”™

The Nexview profiler is optimized for noncontact surface metrology of an extensive variety of samples and surfaces from…

Coated Littrow prisms feature an anti-reflective coating on the surface opposite the 60-degree angle to provide a consta…

Assis­tant pro­fessor Yongmin Liu and col­lab­o­ra­tors at Penn State and MIT have devel­oped the world’s first recon­fi…

Hybrid technology makes possible highly reliable transmission of photonic qubits

By means of the quantum-mechanical entanglement of spatially separated light fields, researchers in Tokyo and Mainz have…

A team of researchers from the University of Central Florida and the National University of Singapore have shown that it…

Researchers at the University of Rochester have measured for the first time light emitted by photoluminescence from a na…

New technique could find uses in highly sensitive interferometers and other measuring devices

The new approach uses a liquid crystal matrix, which uses little power, does not require an external electrical field an…

TRUMPF’s new RFID lens increases the measurement accuracy of the LensLine sensor system, which now offers enhanced condition monitoring functions and is even more operator-friendly than before.

Greater accuracy, process reliability and user-friendliness – TRUMPF has enhanced its LensLine sensor system by combinin…

Field-replaceable slits add flexibility to Ocean Optics spectrometers

Precision laser-cut slit and aperture assemblies from Ocean Optics add flexibility to the company’s QE65 Pro, Jaz, and T…