The 'Light Tunnel Generator' saves costs by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of high power laser cutting
Keely Portway investigates the latest innovations in micro-optics, from 3D printing to how it can improve the optical designs of photonics equipment
The Nanoscribe team were presented with the award by Jessica Rowbury, editor of Electro Optics
Nanoscribe has won an innovation award at Laser World of Photonics for its Quantum X maskless lithography system, designed for industrial fabrication of refractive and diffractive microoptics
Benno Oderkerk, president of EPIC welcoming Christian Bosshard (left) and Samuel Bucourt (right) to the EPIC board at EPIC board meeting in Torino in February 2019
Christian Bosshard, vice president of CSEM, and Samuel Bucourt, CEO of Imagine Optic, will be joining the board of directors of European Photonics Industry Consortium
Matthew Dale discovers how scaling spectrometers down to the chip level enables them to be mass-produced in standard MEMS foundries, making spectroscopy more affordable for various new applications
Matthew Dale discusses some of the latest fabrication techniques, materials and optical structures being used in the field of micro-optics
Professor Paul Shore led the team that micromachined the complex mirrors within James Webb’s mid-infrared instrument. He chats about the technical lessons learnt
EMF invested a great deal of time and effort in developing a coating system for producing long-lasting diamond like carbon (DLC) coatings on chalcogenides at scale
The properties of chalcogenide glass optics have opened up a number of use cases in infrared optics applications and beyond. This article assesses how some of the associated manufacturing and handling challenges of this material can be overcome
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We detail the commercial offerings from some of the main players in optical mirrors
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Shining a light on the latest products and solutions in the diode laser space
Optical technologies offer researchers a powerful new toolkit to explore the structure and function of the brain. (Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com)
Advances in optical fibres and microscale LEDs are furthering neuroscientists’ understanding of the brain
The nulling interferometry devices under development at Caltech’s Exoplanet Technology Laboratory cancel out starlight to help detect and identify foreign worlds. (Credit: Shutterstock/Dotted Yeti)
Nemanja Jovanovic, lead instrument scientist at Caltech’s Optical Observatory and Exoplanet Technology Laboratory, on emerging astrophotonic technologies on his radar
Robert Smith is a professor at the University of Alberta and historian to JWST since 2002
As James Webb Space Telescope beams back images from the edge of space and time, space historian Robert Smith recalls some of the decisions made to bring the $10bn NASA project to fruition. David Stuart reports
