The Essential Guide to SWIR Lenses
Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) lenses have become an indispensable tool in various high-tech fields including surveillance, medical, surgery and pollution detection.
Custom Infrared and Thermal Imaging Lenses for OEM Applications
Thermal imaging systems allow users to visualize temperature differences that are otherwise invisible to the human eye. These systems are essential in critical applications ranging from emergency rescue and autonomous driving to energy audits and industrial inspection.
CCD Applications
Charge-coupled devices, or CCDs, are electronic devices that are commonly used in digital cameras and other imaging devices. The CCD lens is a key component in these devices, allowing for high-quality images and video to be captured. […]
Deep Learning-based Analysis
Radiological x-rays, ultrasounds and NMR’s are all forms of medical imaging that have traditionally required the flexibility of the human eye to detect anomalies within the human body. Since a computer is confused by busy backgrounds and image quality issues, it is difficult for a traditional machine vision algorithm to [...]
Neuroimaging With Machine Learning
Studying the human mind is challenging. Currently, most human brain studies are limited to non-invasive approaches, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This limits the examination of the human brain at the cellular level, which may offer novel insights into the development and potential treatment of various neurological diseases. [...]
Transmission Electron Microscope
TEM, or Transmission electron microscopy (also sometimes conventional transmission electron microscopy or CTEM) is a microscopy technique in which a beam of electrons is transmitted through a specimen to form an image. The specimen is most often an ultrathin section less than 100 nm thick or a suspension on a grid. An image is formed from the interaction of [...]
Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography
A new kind of precise and non-invasive imaging called optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) has assisted much of the recent research on the eye’s connection with Alzheimer’s. It enables physicians to see the smallest veins in the back of the eye, including the red blood cells moving through the retina. [...]
Four Types of Barcode Scanners
Barcode scanners are extremely simple devices that can read and output printed barcodes to a computer. Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens and a light sensor translating optical impulses into electrical ones. Additionally, nearly all barcode readers contain decoder circuitry analyzing the bar code’s image data provided by the sensor [...]
M12 Lenses
M12 Lenses, also referred to as S-Mount Lenses or Micro-Video Lenses, are board lenses used to focus an image onto a camera sensor. They are used in a variety of applications including automotive, forensics, pharmaceutical, and food inspection. These S-Mount Lenses are compact imaging lenses designed for use with many [...]
Optical Microscopy
First invented in the 17th century by Dutch scientist Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, the optical microscope is the traditional form of microscopy, and is still in use today. Sometimes known as a light microscope, it uses a series of precision lenses to magnify images of small samples with visible light. [...]
3D Medical Imaging
From the early days of CT scanners and mammography devices, medical imaging has come a long way. With 3D medical imaging, healthcare professionals can now access new resolutions, angles, and details to help them gain a better understanding of their patient, all while cutting back on the dosage of radiation [...]
The Hidden Lenses Behind Medical Imaging Breakthroughs: Clarity That Heals
Medical imaging and laser technologies are transforming modern healthcare, but at the heart of these innovations lies something often overlooked: precision optical lenses. From high-resolution diagnostic cameras and endoscopes to advanced laser tools in surgery and cosmetic care, lenses are the hidden drivers that make clarity, accuracy, and efficiency possible.
Optical Tweezers
Originally called ‘single-beam gradient force trap’, optical tweezers are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to provide an attractive, or repulsive force, depending on the refractive index mismatch to physically hold and move microscopic dielectric objects similar to tweezers. Optical tweezers have [...]
Optical Coherence Tomography in Modern Medicine
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging method that uses light waves to capture micron-level, cross-sectional views of internal biological structures. By reflecting light off different tissue layers and analyzing the delay and intensity of the returning signal, OCT provides images that rival histology in detail, without the need for surgical biopsy.
Optical Imaging And Traumatic Brain Injury
Optical imaging is a technique for non-invasively looking inside the body, as is done with x-rays. But, unlike x-rays, which use ionizing radiation, optical imaging uses visible light and the special properties of photons to obtain detailed images of organs and tissues as well as smaller structures including cells [...]
Precision Lenses for Machine, Automation, and Robotic Vision in Manufacturing
We support engineers from concept through prototyping and into production—ensuring each robotics vision system has optics tailored to its function.
Breakthrough in Brain Imaging
Neuroimaging or brain imaging is the use of various techniques to either directly or indirectly image the structure, function/pharmacology of the nervous system. It is a relatively new discipline within medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Physicians who specialize in the performance and interpretation of neuroimaging in the clinical setting are [...]
High-Performance Lenses Driving Smartphone Technology Camera Innovation
From casual snapshots to scientific imaging, smartphones have evolved into powerful visual tools packed with advanced camera systems.
Three-Dimensional Technology is Changing Sports Medicine
Three-dimensional imaging stands at the forefront, offering unparalleled insights into athlete health, injury diagnosis, and rehabilitation.
Custom Lenses Aid In Neo-Natal Care
The medical field is seeing many advancements in early detection of several neurological conditions in newborns. Among the diagnoses are birth asphyxia, neonatal seizures, brain malformations, stroke and hydrocephalus just to name a few. The causes of said conditions can range from pre-mature birth to congenital malformations to genetic [...]
Benefits of Angular Position Sensors
There are many types of angular position sensors and they can be categorized by their output type, sensing range, operating temperature range, packaging type, supply current and supply voltage. An angular position sensor can also measure the equation “by which any position with respect to any other position is [...]