Jason Palidwar

1 week ago | photonicsonline.com | John Oncea |Jason Palidwar |Claude Montcalm |Peter Hook

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will revolutionize astronomy with its massive digital camera, real-time data, and a decade-long sky survey, hunting Planet 9. Fire Detectives In Orbit: Using Remote Sensing To Detect WildfiresAdvances in optical technology, combined with changing launch cost dynamics, have pushed optical Earth observation to the forefront of wildfire detection, tracking, and management.

1 month ago | photonicsonline.com | John Oncea |Melles Griot |Rick Brown |Jason Palidwar

Cryogenic cooling boosts IR tech by reducing thermal noise in detectors, enabling higher sensitivity and precision in fields from astronomy to military imaging. Precision IR Narrow And Dual Bandpass Filters With Low OH-Band AbsorptionAlluxa’s new precision infrared bandpass and dual bandpass filter technology brings new levels of performance with higher transmissions than traditional evaporated coatings.

1 month ago | photonicsonline.com | John Oncea |Melles Griot |Jason Palidwar |Claude Montcalm

ESA’s CryoSat-2 and NASA’s ICESat-2 satellites track Greenland’s melting ice with precise radar and laser data, revealing rapid ice loss and aiding climate change research. SPOTLIGHT ON ENVIRONMENTAL SENSINGOptical Profilers In An Argon Chamber EnvironmentZygo Optical Profilers now operate within argon gloveboxes, enabling high-precision, non-contact metrology in inert environments, preserving sensitive materials, and advancing research.

Mar 7, 2024 | photonics.com | Jason Palidwar |David Samuels

Advanced optical filters are improving laser-based satellite communications by enabling ‘more signal and less background.’Rapid, on-demand access to information is a necessary facet of daily life in the present “age of communications.” The reliable communication links that society necessitates support person-to-person and device-to-device communications at any time and, increasingly, in any place. Such assurances of connectivity owe to the massive technological strides of the past half century.

Jan 2, 2024 | photonics.com | Jason Palidwar

Raman systems continue to evolve — from benchtop scientific instrumentsb to portable analytical devices that are used in biomedical applications, with optical filters playing a critical role. While Raman spectroscopy has long been useful in pharmaceutical analysis and the identification of hazardous materials, the technology’s usefulness in biomedicine has also been expanding due to less bulky, miniaturized instrumentation.