Astronomers have long struggled to capture the true nature of stellar nova explosions. However, thanks to cutting-edge techniques, a team of scientists has finally been able to observe these cosmic ...

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, two new studies present an in-depth analysis of the planet Beta Pictoris b's atmosphere using interferometry with the Very Large Telescope ...

Fringe conference can be traced to the automatic processing of fringe patterns. The term “patterns” evokes an image of flowing lines elegantly wrapped around surface contours. However, automatic ...

It is useful for expanding the effective aperture of the interferometer, in one axis. The measurement area is around the same size as the beam when a laser interferometer's round measurement beam ...

Strongly correlated quantum systems can exhibit exotic behaviour called topological order which is characterized by non-local correlations that depend on the system topology. Such systems can exhibit ...

Exail, a global company focusing on photonics and quantum technologies, has delivered three of it Absolute Quantum ...

Microlenses have many applications, such as coupling light into fiber optics, enhancing light source uniformity in microdisplays, and focusing light onto imaging sensors in mobile phone cameras.

This image compares data from two Iceye Synthetic Aperture Radar images. Changes in the vertical height of the surface appear black. Areas without changes are depicted in white. Credit: Iceye SAN ...

Manufacturing a precision surface requires a balance between satisfying the optimum quality requirements at the minimum cost. Steve Martinek summarizes the challenges of increasing the precision ...

White light interferometry (WLI) is a contact-free optical method for measuring surface height. It uses the phase difference between the light reflected off a reference mirror and the target sample to ...

Grating-coupled interferometry (GCI) is a surface based, a label-free optical sensing technique used for real-time binding kinetic measurements. 1 Typically, GCI is used to detect binding events ...