Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

Back in the early 1990s, Rank Pneumo designed and built the Opticam SM lens grinding machine according to the specifications laid down by the Center for Optics Manufacturing (COM) in Rochester, New ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical lenses play a crucial role in a vast array of applications, from microscopy and astronomy to photography, medical devices, and machine vision systems. Traditionally, the ...

Everyone’s favorite Paris-based photo editing software outfit, DxO Labs, has just bolstered its already coveted optical ...

(Nanowerk News) A front-end lens, or meta-imager (see below), created at Vanderbilt University can potentially replace traditional imaging optics in machine-vision applications, producing images at ...

Blum-Novotest recently opened its new Competence Center in Erlanger, Kentucky. Inside, the company plans to run a training and technology hub for the U.S. market — especially supporting the growth of ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – For Ursula Gagne and her optical fabrication team at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Europe, a busy month can mean 6,000 new orders for glasses. USAMMCE, a direct ...

Laser lens laser protective windows can be used to laser welding equipment, laser cutting machine. Can protect the damage of the focus lens, due to the AR coating on the surface is designed according ...

A camera usually requires a lens system to capture a focused image, and the lensed camera has been the dominant imaging solution for centuries. A lensed camera requires a complex lens system to ...

Machine vision systems are becoming increasingly common across multiple industries. Manufacturers use them to streamline quality control, self-driving vehicles implement them to navigate, and robots ...

is an important imaging component in the machine vision system. Its main function is to focus the light in the scene onto the camera's photosensitive element to generate an image. Compared with ...

In a significant development for 'lens-less' imaging, researchers have devised a new image reconstruction method that enables high-quality imaging in a short computing time. The new method is based on ...