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Futuristic Farming: Photonics Technologies in Land and Crops
Futuristic Farming: Photonics Technologies in Land and Crops
Photonics Technologies in Farming Farmers everywhere face the same daunting task: the world population is growing at an exponential rate, and food supply has to keep up. There is practical limits to a ...
Where Electronics Meets Optics: Electro-Optics, a Dynamic Duo
Where Electronics Meets Optics: Electro-Optics, a Dynamic Duo
What is Electro-Optics? In the last 20 years or so, the field of electro-optics has become increasingly important. It is often challenging to predict the future of scientific discoveries and their relevant ...
Plasma Light Sources Entering the Tech Industry: A Testament to Moore’s Law
Plasma Light Sources Entering the Tech Industry: A Testament to Moore’s Law
Introduction to Plasma Light Sources Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits has and will continue to double every year. This trend alludes to exponential ...
Photonics Meets Forensic Science: No Such Thing as The Perfect Crime
Photonics Meets Forensic Science: No Such Thing as The Perfect Crime
Forensic science has come a long way since the 700s, when the Chinese first established the concept of utilizing fingerprints as means of identification. Since then, technology in photonics and optics ...
Gas Analysis Methods: Accurate Results Out of Thin Air
Gas Analysis Methods: Accurate Results Out of Thin Air
What is Gas Analysis? Gases are all around us. While some gases have noticeable odors, most are virtually undetectable by human senses. Gas detection first became a concern when certain gases proved to ...
Infrared Imaging: See the Invisible Light from Biology to Technology
Infrared Imaging: See the Invisible Light from Biology to Technology
Infrared imaging is a technique that detects thermal radiation and produces images of heat distribution and fluctuation. Due to the black body radiation law, all the objects with a temperature higher than ...