As photonics technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, optical measurements grow increasingly complex. To make reliable measurements, one must consider the characteristics and interactions of ...

Optical non-contact profilers are interference microscopes used to accurately measure the three-dimensional height variations on surfaces of a given test material. Optical profilers manipulate the ...

Patterning challenges for the semiconductor industry are growing as the number of multi-patterned layers being used in the 10nm and beyond nodes increase. Patterning requires highly accurate overlay ...

Large-aperture interferometers are important in the manufacturing and measurement of large-aperture optical elements, which play critical roles in the fields of optical precision manufacturing and ...

Measuring super smooth surfaces generally necessitates the use of optical metrology tools, but it is important to note that optical solutions are not all the same. The choice of metrology solution for ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2023.220024 considers a precise measurement technology of optical coherent structure of random lights. Optical manipulation and ...

Scientists have demonstrated the fastest distance measurement so far. The researchers demonstrated on-the-fly sampling of a gun bullet profile with micrometer accuracy. The experiment relied on a ...

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) recently named fitness trackers as one of the fastest growing consumer electronic products in American households. Over the past year, ownership of wearable ...

A European collaboration has used one of the world's portable optical atomic clocks to measure gravitation for the first time. A European collaboration involving clock experts from the National ...

The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100,000 times faster than the microwave frequencies of the cesium clocks which are generating the second at ...