Features
Algorithms let developers shrink microscopes, enabling innovation by building on existing technology, discovers Andy Extance
Now smaller, cheaper and more robust, light detection and ranging instruments are being used in new ways, finds Jessica Rowbury
Optical design is crucial in enabling wider adoption of hyperspectral imaging, finds Andy Extance
Optical coatings are helping to improve the efficiency of solar cells, finds David Stuart
Greg Blackman discovers how emerging lasers with adjustable beam quality are improving quality and flexibility in cutting and welding
Keely Portway takes a look at the latest developments in optical software for the biomedical industry
Keely Portway takes a look at some of the latest developments in optical fibre design for fibre lasers
Lens features have been getting too small to properly characterise – but metrology providers are catching up, finds Andy Extance
How will the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 with no new land for agriculture? Greg Blackman speaks to machine builder Bühler about how optical sensing can maximise yield in grain processing
Keely Portway delves into some of the latest lidar developments for self-driving vehicles, and how these are proving beneficial in other applications
New methods and instruments are building on impressive investigative capabilities, finds Andy Extance
Progress is being made on entanglement methods that can work in mainstream telecom wavelengths, in conventional networks, finds Andy Extance