Carrollton, Tex. — Meeting customer demand for a surface-mount infrared light source with a wider beam angle, TT electronics OPTEK Technology has expanded its infrared (IR) SMD product line with the ...

Synchrotron light sources are powerful facilities that produce light in a variety of "colors," or wavelengths - from the infrared to X-rays - by accelerating electrons to emit light in controlled ...

Laser aficionado [Martin Raynsford] has built up experience with various laser cutters over the years and felt he should write up a blog post detailing his first-hand findings with an often overlooked ...

Optical vortices, which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), can be flexibly produced and measured with infrared and visible light. Their application is an important research topic for ...

What prompted the MIT team to research and develop a nanoscale "flashlight"? Details on the metasurface that was designed to create the source-beam collimator. How a DNN, CNN, and machine learning ...

A team of researchers has successfully demonstrated how machine-learning tools can improve the stability of light beams' size for science experiments at a synchrotron light source via adjustments that ...