Edmund Optics Techspec Variable Beam Expanders
11 June, 2014Edmund Optics Techspec Variable Beam Expanders offer continuous magnification for high-power laser applications where magnification changes may be required, including prototyping or research and development.
Nanolane Surf optical slides
30 May, 2014With the development of Surf slides from Nanolane, images of nanometric samples from regular light microscopes have been made possible. The optical slides are based on the control of the polarisation of the light.
Optical tweezers for atom clouds
09 April, 2014Physicists from the University of Otago have developed a steerable 'optical tweezers' unit that uses intense laser beams to precisely split minute clouds of ultracold atoms and to smash them together.
Looking at light from a different angle
04 April, 2014Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have produced a system that allows light of any colour to pass through it if this light is coming from a specific angle.
Rudolph Research J457 digital benchtop refractometer
03 March, 2014Rudolph Research Analytical has developed a refractometer with operational features that help users load and monitor sample quality. The J457 comes equipped with Smart Measure technology that automatically detects when the prism is improperly cleaned, insufficient sample is loaded or if the instrument is improperly calibrated.
Edmund Optics TechSpec Barium Fluoride (BaF2) Windows
26 January, 2014Edmund Optics introduces TechSpec Barium Fluoride (BaF2) Windows. The windows are suitable for use in a wide variety of applications, including infrared (IR) spectroscopy, as they offer wide broadband transmission extending from the deep ultraviolet (UV) to the long-wave IR.
A new optical dimension in nanophotonics
17 December, 2013Macquarie University researchers, leading an international collaboration, have invented of a new generation of nanocrystals called ‘τ-Dots’. These can be coded in the newly discovered optical dimension of time in addition to colours.
Researchers create metamaterial lens with 10 times more power
08 November, 2013Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed a lens with 10x the resolution of any other current lens. Writing about their work in the journal Nature Communications, the team explained that the lens is a metamaterial - a material with completely new properties not found in nature.
Nanoparticles filter light for microalgal growth
30 October, 2013Researchers from The University of Western Australia (UWA) have helped develop a nanoparticle light filter system which stimulates the growth of useful microalgal organisms. The resulting microalgal cells, and their light-absorbing photopigments, provide high value-added chemical compounds.
Creating mirror images of molecules
23 May, 2013Many molecules have a right and a left form, like shoes. In pharmaceuticals, it is important that the correct form of the molecule is used. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have been able to produce a mirror image using crystals with special properties.
Edmund Optics Techspec High Resolution Lenses
10 February, 2013Techspec High Resolution Lenses for 1″ and 4/3″ sensors are designed to withstand the harsh demands of industrial inspection applications.
Edmund Optics Techspec Hard Coated 25 nm Bandpass Interference Filters
10 February, 2013Delivering high transmission with deep blocking, Edmund Optics’ Techspec Hard Coated 25 nm Bandpass Interference Filters are suitable for a wide variety of life science applications, as well as for use in machine vision applications.
World’s smallest spanner puts a new twist on microscopic manipulation
29 January, 2013By harnessing laser light’s ability to gently push and pull microscopic particles, researchers have created the fibre-optic equivalent of the world’s smallest spanner.
Cobalt 05-01 Series DPSS lasers
16 January, 2013Cobolt has released four higher power lasers on the single-frequency DPSS laser platform 05-01. No diode light leakage during high-speed modulation for applications using laser-induced fluorescence is essential.
Graphene plasmonics beats the drug cheats
14 January, 2013The wonder material graphene could help detect the presence of drugs or toxins in the body or dramatically improve airport security, University of Manchester researchers have found.
