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Bandpass Filters Explained: A Detailed Guide
Bandpass Filters Explained: A Detailed Guide
In the realm of optical engineering and photonics, optical bandpass filters stand as essential yet often underappreciated components. These filters, integral in managing light wavelengths, are crucial in a ...
Plate Beamsplitters: The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide
Plate Beamsplitters: The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide
In the intricate realm of optical engineering and photonics, plate beamsplitters stand as quintessential components, pivotal in the manipulation and analysis of light paths. These planar, optically coated ...
Dichroic Mirrors Explained: A Comprehensive Guide
Dichroic Mirrors Explained: A Comprehensive Guide
Dichroic mirrors serve a pivotal role in modern optics by offering precise control over light based on its wavelength. By selectively reflecting and transmitting specific wavelengths, they facilitate a ...
Optical Neural Networks: The Future of Deep Learning?
Optical Neural Networks: The Future of Deep Learning?
Optical Neural Networks can revolutionize data science. The current state of data science places a heavy emphasis on large quantities of data, which are widely available due to increased computational ...
Night Vision for Hunting
Night Vision for Hunting
Hunting. What was a pursuit once necessary for survival is now a sporting pastime for those in the developed world. Many of the animals are nocturnal which makes the night time a preferred time for ...
Applying Holographic Optical Technology to Virtual Reality
Applying Holographic Optical Technology to Virtual Reality
The Beginnings of Virtual Reality The definition of virtual reality (VR) has changed throughout history. In 1929, the first iteration of a flight simulator was invented. This allowed pilots to train, ...
Photonics in Medicine: Top 5 Biomedical Impacts
Photonics in Medicine: Top 5 Biomedical Impacts
Researchers began manipulating laser technologies to use in scientific research long time ago. Which began as abstract exploration of the behavior of light and its interaction with nature, soon turned into ...
Diffraction: An Introduction
Diffraction: An Introduction
Goals of Engineering: Precision In many cases, the goal of scientists and engineers is to affect some change in the world we live in via a rigorous understanding of the characteristics of some process or ...
Nanophotonics: Big Developments In a Small World
Nanophotonics: Big Developments In a Small World
  An Introduction to Nanophotonics: Something Big from Something Small In recent years there has been a lot of work with nanophotonics in optical physics and engineering. This is a part of the rising ...
Light Operated Nanomotors: How Optics Drives Nanotech Forward
Light Operated Nanomotors: How Optics Drives Nanotech Forward
Small mechanical systems and optics are interlinked in many ways. People use lasers to create small electronic systems like those found in semiconductors. Increasingly, light plays an important role in ...