Edward Bausch transformed the world of optics with groundbreaking inventions like the iris diaphragm shutter and advanced ...

In 2024, no practice is complete without an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device. Optician rounds up some of the options ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

Dr. Erik Novak: Optical gauging devices are becoming increasingly important on the factory floor. They provide a faster and ...

ATLID is designed to capture detailed 20-kilometer vertical profiles of both clouds and atmospheric aerosols, the tiny ...

It is all to do with the clarity and 'light gathering' of your optical instrument. Thus, providing greater 'resolving power' to use those greater magnifications, or eyepieces. All of the planets ...

Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT recently announced that it clinched a contract worth $297 million from NASA to design and construct ...

We put optical observatories on tops of high mountains to get them above the clouds and away from our light pollution.

The atmospheric lidar ATLID, the last of four instruments on board the EarthCARE satellite launched in May, has now been ...

Optical fingerprint scanners are the oldest method of capturing and comparing fingerprints. As the name suggests, this technique relies on capturing an optical image — essentially a photograph.

NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a contract to design and build the next-generation GeoXO Lightning Mapper (LMX) ...

Kitt Peak is home to arguably the largest collection of major optical telescopes on planet Earth, but it also has an ...