The ChemCam instrument fitted to NASA’s Curiosity rover has used Ocean Optics HR2000 spectrometers to find manganese in lakebed rocks, indicating there were once habitable conditions on the red planet’s Gale Crater.
Swave Photonics, a display company specialising in 3D holographic technology, has announced the development of a new kind of advanced display technology using the world’s smallest pixel.
A research team at the Max Planck Institute of the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, has developed a technique that they suggest will speed up the process of spectroscopic analysis.