Optics

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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
This episode of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Maurice Steinman, senior VP and general manager of the U.S. division of Lightelligence.
July 14, 2026
Credit: Ommatidia LiDAR
Ommatidia LiDAR’s Q2 laser radar deployed for noncontact field measurement.
July 14, 2026
OPTOMAN high-power laser optics.
July 9, 2026
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
July 7, 2026
Credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesse
Satellites crossing the night sky above the northern Atacama Desert in Chile during an hour. It’s a stack of a time-lapse video taken on October 15, 2025, about two hours after sunset. Some streaks are caused by planes, easily identified by blinking-colored lights, but most trails are from satellites. In the foreground is the dome of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, the world’s largest optical/infrared telescope, currently under construction atop Cerro Armazones. Behind it are the lasers of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory, 22 km away.
July 7, 2026
Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA
Rubin’s 1.7-gigapixel image of a field of stars within the constellation Lupus gives us an unprecedented view of the Universe. Faint, glowing clouds spread across this image are galactic cirrus—clouds of interstellar gas and dust found in the foreground of the Milky Way.
June 30, 2026
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
June 30, 2026
Working principle of the Fourier-optics-based angle-resolved imaging spectrometer.
June 25, 2026
Credit: Cirrus Logic
Bringing signal conversion closer to the sensor unlocks new performance gains.
June 25, 2026

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