When reflecting on science and research, it is hard to find a technology that is as important as microscopy. Microscopy is not only of utmost importance as a tool for conducting research, there is ...

Designed with new manufacturing technology that creates lenses with shapes that are difficult to fabricate using other methods, Olympus’ new X Line™ series objectives and the UPLAPO-HR objectives for ...

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, May 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syntec Optics (Nasdaq: OPTX), a leading provider of mission-critical optics to scientific and technical instruments and aerospace and defense OEMs ...

The measurement of the acceptance angle of an optical fiber, which is the maximum angle at which the core of the fiber will take in light that will be contained within the core. Taken from the fiber ...

ASML, the Netherlands-headquartered market leader in lithography systems for semiconductor wafer processing, says it has received its first orders for next-generation extreme ultraviolet (EUV) tools ...

Here, we report a versatile soft x-ray diffraction microscope with 70- to 90-nm resolution by using two different tabletop coherent soft x-ray sources-a soft x-ray laser and a high-harmonic source. We ...

Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) optical modulators are crucial in next-generation technologies such as free-space optical communication and LiDAR, but existing designs struggle with balancing ...

Lithography company ASML is to invest €1 billion cash in a subsidiary of Zeiss, in a bid to aid the development of advanced optics needed in future extreme ultraviolet (EUV) systems. The Carl Zeiss ...

Central nervous system (CNS) diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) manifest early at the microscopic (i.e. cellular) level, deep in the brain. Yet, optical microscopes that can see cells in the ...