Test & Measurement

Building a beam profiler in-house with hardware and basic software can produce usable results under controlled conditions, but delivering accurate, repeatable, and traceable measurements over time requires far more.

Buy vs. build a laser beam analysis solution: 11 considerations

Should you buy or build a laser beam analyzer? Navigate the hidden complexity behind this question by exploring 11 key considerations.

Oct. 14, 2026

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Don't miss Laser Focus World’s PhotonicsNXT 2026 virtual event!

Oct. 13, 2026

FIGURE 1. Hyperspectral imaging system operating in a field.

Detectors & Imaging

Optical imaging and spectroscopy enhance precision agriculture

Oct. 13, 2026

FIGURE 1. An echelle spectrograph disperses input light into multiple overlapping orders using a steep-blazed grating. A grism separates these orders perpendicularly and produces a 2D array of parallel spectra that are focused onto a CCD detector.

Advanced echelle gratings enable high-precision exoplanet detection

Oct. 9, 2026

2026 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Francis Halzen.

Detectors & Imaging

2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Oct. 6, 2026

Andrea Arduin (left) and Professor Ole Bang, who heads the Fiber Sensors and Supercontinuum Group at DTU Electro, in the lab.

Lasers & Sources

‘Cooked’ fiber doubles range of ultralow-noise supercontinuum lasers

Sept. 30, 2026

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Bio&Life Sciences

PODCAST: Meet Eric Diebold, Waters Biosciences

Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast

Sept. 29, 2026

UC Riverside and LIGO Laboratory researchers move a 40-kg LIGO mirror into position to test a prototype FROSTI wavefront actuator in vacuum.

Detectors & Imaging

Wide-aperture wavefront sensing from thermal imaging

Sept. 29, 2026

FIGURE 1. Legacy Eleven Parameter Image Intensifier Nomograph.4

The lost art of nomography is reborn through AI

Sept. 15, 2026

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