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Emberion
Emberion designs and produces high-performance optoelectronic devices based on graphene, other nanomaterials and in-house designed CMOS integrated circuits. Our primary products are infrared detectors for VIS-SWIR (400 - 1800 nm) and thermal imaging (3 - 5 um & 7 - 14 um). Emberion's products combine high performance with a competitive cost level thus enabling new applications of infrared imaging and in-field spectroscopy.
Ocean HDX spectrometer
15 February 2018
The latest spectrometer from Ocean Optics uses a novel optical bench design and high-performance components to provide high throughput, low stray light and excellent thermal stability for integrated, industrial and research applications
FluoTime 300 with double monochromators
12 January 2018
PicoQuant’s FluoTime 300 fluorescence lifetime spectrometer is now available with double monochromators in excitation and emission
Triple Monochromator
12 January 2018
McPherson, a manufacturer of precision optical systems for spectroscopy and science applications, has announced a new triple monochromator
ASOPS Engine
12 January 2018
Laser Quantum has released the ASOPS Engine, an advanced time-domain spectroscopy system that offers extremely fast acquisition speeds of up to 20kHz
Software for McPherson spectrometer systems
20 November 2017
McPherson and Princeton Instruments have released a new add-in for Princeton Instruments’ 64-bit LightField software that controls McPherson’s deep UV and soft x-ray spectrometers
GL Spectis 1.0 T Flicker
3 October 2017
GL Optic has implemented the new flicker metric stroboscopic visibility measure, which determines the probability of a stroboscopic effect, in its new GL Spectis 1.0 T Flicker spectrometer
UVISEL Plus
18 August 2017
Horiba Scientific has announced UVISEL Plus, a modular ellipsometer that includes new acquisition technology designed to measure thin film samples faster and more accurately
UVISEL Plus
25 July 2017
Horiba Scientific has announced UVISEL Plus, a modular ellipsometer that includes new acquisition technology designed to measure thin film samples faster and more accurately
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Manx Precision Optics’ polishing lap. Credit: Manx Precision Optics
Benjamin Skuse asks why, after 400 years of polishing optics, the process hasn’t been automated
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
James Webb: A technician inspects the primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope. The team’s improvements involving a Shack-Hartmann sensor have opened up applications for eye doctors examining human eyesight (image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)
How the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing technique can be used to simply and quickly assess the quality of optical systems
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A look at the market for spectroelectrochemistry and some of the products and solutions available
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A look at the current market for Raman spectroscopy and some of the products and solutions available
The panel discussion at Laser Munich, with Leibinger holding the microphone (credit Messe Munchen)
Laser firms could really benefit from quantum computing, which should not just be reserved for the world's big challenges, finds Jessica Rowbury
Credit: Ayar Labs
As Ayar Labs secures investment to develop its silicon photonics technology, Robert Roe speaks to Hugo Saleh about the firm's plans
GasSight is a low-cost imager based on quantum technology that can produce real time video of methane gas. (Credit: QuantIC)
Matthew Dale asks whether quantum technologies are ready to be seen on the global stage at one of the world’s largest photonics exhibitions
