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RADAR and LiDAR for Remote Sensing and Object Tracking
RADAR and LiDAR for Remote Sensing and Object Tracking
Both LiDAR and RADAR are well-established methods of detection and remote sensing. Some systems benefit from using radar while others are better served using LiDAR. In some cases, the two techniques may ...
Hubble Space Telescope and Planetary Formation
Hubble Space Telescope and Planetary Formation
History of Telescopes When students begin to learn about space, astronomy, and the telescope in school, one of the first names that stands out is Galileo’s. Galileo Galilei was the first to point a ...
Organic Light Emitting Diodes: Brightness in Lighting and Display Technologies
Organic Light Emitting Diodes: Brightness in Lighting and Display Technologies
What’s Organic about Organic LEDs? Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLED) are similar to LEDs, but have organic layers between the conducting layers. These organic layers are the emitting layer.  The thin ...
Urban Farming: Using Technology to Revolutionize Agriculture
Urban Farming: Using Technology to Revolutionize Agriculture
What is Urban Farming? Historically, farming developed in rural areas with plentiful amounts of land and resources; however, recently urban farming is on the rise. Urban farming is when cities produce ...
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: Behind the Tech and Beyond
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: Behind the Tech and Beyond
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are two technologies that are becoming commonplace in the modern world. Virtual Reality is defined as an immersive technology where the user is blocked off from the ...
Schlieren Imaging Technique for Capturing the Invisible
Schlieren Imaging Technique for Capturing the Invisible
Schlieren imaging – a less known visualization method – makes it possible to visualize what’s the typically invisible. It makes it possible to capture changes in flow such as heat rising ...
Light Detectors: Detecting and Diagnosing Light
Light Detectors: Detecting and Diagnosing Light
Light detectors, also known as photodetectors are common not just in labs, but in our everyday appliances. From automatic doors to video cameras, photodetectors are established technologies that help make ...
Sub-Nanometer Resolution from these Optical Imaging Techniques
Sub-Nanometer Resolution from these Optical Imaging Techniques
Sub-nanometer imaging is desired over a range of different fields with uses from profiling thin films to investigating biological materials. In this blog post we will explore some of the methods for ...
Prism Types and their Applications in Optical Systems
Prism Types and their Applications in Optical Systems
This is an extension on our prior blog post “Prisms: A General Overview” that can be found here. In this post, we will include a further discussion of various commonly used nondispersive prism ...
Introduction to Detecting and Diagnosing Light: Beam Parameters
Introduction to Detecting and Diagnosing Light: Beam Parameters
Choosing the type of laser for your experiment or project may be a daunting task. With so many beam parameters to select from, how do you know where to start? One of the best ways to tackle any task is to ...