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High Contrast SWIR Lenses for Agricultural Sorting

News - 8 Jul 2021

Resolve Optics is a leading developer and supplier of high contrast Short Wavelength Infrared (SWIR) lenses for agricultural sorting applications. A bruised apple revealed using SWIR inspection....

Affordable High Performance Beam Expander

News - 1 Jul 2021

Optical Surfaces Ltd. announce a new series of Reflective Beam Expanders with an output clear aperture of 75mm and a selection of magnifications, which are designed for researchers requiring high...

Nanoscale Sensor Provides Minimally Disruptive Measurements of Water Potential in Leaves

News - 4 Jun 2021

Water regulation in leaves is vital to a plant's health, affecting its growth and yield, disease susceptibility and drought resistance. A breakthrough technology developed by Cornell University...

Low-Loss Mirrors Could be Used for Trace Gas Detection in Medicine, Environmental Science

News - 25 May 2021

Manufactured in a new process based on crystalline materials, these low-loss mirrors promise to open up completely new application areas, for example in optical respiratory gas analysis for early...

Optimised SWIR Lenses for Material Sorting & Inspection

News - 20 May 2021

Resolve Optics has received several major orders for instrument optimised versions of its Model 363-000 - a 16 mm diameter Short Wavelength Infrared (SWIR) lens for inspection and material sorting...

Cellphone Turns into an Instrument Capable of Detecting Chemicals, Drugs

News - 5 May 2021

Scientists from Texas A&M have developed an extension to an ordinary cellphone that turns it into an instrument capable of detecting chemicals, drugs, biological molecules, and pathogens. The...

Novel Sensor Provides Real-Time Insights into the Inner Life of Plants

News - 8 Apr 2021

The hormone auxin is of central importance for the development of plants. Scientists at the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen have now...

New Light Source can Facilitate a Simplified MIR Fiber-Optic Sensor Device

News - 1 Apr 2021

A research team of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences, National Institute for Fusion Science and Akita Prefectural University have successfully demonstrated a broadband mid-infrared (MIR)...

Plasmon-Coupled Gold Nanoparticles Could be Used in Optical Thermal-History Sensor

News - 29 Mar 2021

Researchers have demonstrated that stretching shape-memory polymers embedded with clusters of gold nanoparticles alters their plasmon-coupling, giving rise to desirable optical properties. One...

Mantis Shrimp-Inspired Optical Sensor for Hyperspectral, Polarimetric Imaging

News - 4 Mar 2021

Scientists have taken cues from the eyes of mantis shrimp to design a new type of optical sensor that is small enough to fit on a smartphone but can also perform polarimetric and hyperspectral...