Detectors & Imaging

The laserfocusworld.com Detectors & Imaging channel features articles and other content that discuss components, systems, and applications of detectors and imaging technology.

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Detectors & Imaging

Quantum-inspired phase imaging is immune to instabilities

April 16, 2024
Researchers prove interferometric imaging is possible even within extremely dark and unstable conditions where intensity fringes can’t be seen.
(Image credit: imec)
Detectors & Imaging

Pioneering advances in semiconductor design for sensing light beyond the visible

April 3, 2024
The potential of thin-film-based image sensors unlocked with the integration of a pinned-photodiode structure.
(Image credit: Mikhail Volkov/University of Konstanz)
Detectors & Imaging

Space-time imaging method captures ultrafast electronics in action

March 22, 2024
Researchers in Germany create a femtosecond electron beam probe method to capture high-speed electronics operating at the femtosecond/terahertz domain.
(Photo credit: ZEISS)
Optics

ZEISS and Imperial College London run optics summer program for teens

March 11, 2024
Teens—14 and 15 years old—get opportunity to immerse themselves in optics for a week during the summer.
(Image credit: UCLA)
Detectors & Imaging

Terahertz focal-plane array enables real-time, super-resolution imaging

Jan. 4, 2024
A plasmonic photoconductive terahertz focal-plane array (THz-FPA) tackles a long-standing imaging speed problem and enables rich, high-quality terahertz information.
Detectors & Imaging

Radiometric detector has use in low-light outdoor applications

March 7, 2024
The SILUX-37 radiometric detector characterizes how well a particular low-light outdoor irradiance condition will predict a signal in a CIS-based imaging system.
Detectors & Imaging

SWIR camera features a global snapshot shutter design

March 6, 2024
The Acuros GO 6 Mpixel shortwave-infrared (SWIR) camera is handheld and mirrorless.
Optics

Macro-lenses feature 30 mm outer diameter

March 4, 2024
MCM series macro-lenses offer macro-magnification from 0.1 to 6x with nearly zero distortion.
Software & Accessories

API library designed for machine vision developers

March 4, 2024
Spinnaker 4 is a GeniCam3 API library for machine vision developers to evaluate, test, and deploy products.