Confocal imaging scanner from FocalSpec works with hard-to-measure surfaces

The 3D Line confocal imaging scanner is automatic and can be used in online, at line, and laboratory applications.

Laser Focus World Editors
Apr 27th, 2016
Content Dam Lfw En Articles 2016 04 Confocal Imaging Scanner From Focalspec Works With Hard To Measure Surfaces Leftcolumn Article Thumbnailimage File

The 3D Line confocal imaging scanner is automatic and can be used in online, at line, and laboratory applications on electronic and printed components, PCBs, assemblies, microdispensing, and casings. It enables microtopographic 3D measurement of hard-to-measure surfaces, including glossy, curved, slanted, high-contrast, and transparent parts at sub-micron resolution.
FocalSpec
Cumming, GA
www.focalspec.com

More in Detectors & Imaging
Copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells are shown mounted on roofs. A new thin-film material, palladium diselenide, could lead to high-performance photovoltaics for satellites and other spacecraft.
Detectors & Imaging
Palladium diselenide could be next high-efficiency photovoltaic material for spacecraft use
John Wallace
Jul 31st, 2019
An artist's concept shows a rover on Mars
Optics
Jenoptik lenses will reveal the first images from NASA’s Mars 2020 mission
Gail Overton
Jul 26th, 2019
KBaTeBiO6 (left) is a promising nontoxic perovskite for use in photovoltaics. At right is a scanning transmission electron micrograph showing the atomic structure of KBaTeBiO6, along with a snapshot of the synthesized powder.
Detectors & Imaging
Found via data analytics, a nontoxic perovskite shows promise for use in photovoltaics
John Wallace
Jul 25th, 2019
Doughnut-shaped intensity point spread functions (IPSFs) are compared before (a) and after (c) application of a machine-learning-based adaptive-optic (AO) correction; the IPSF profiles (b, d) along lines I and II are also charted before (blue) and after (magenta) correction.
Optics
Machine-learning-based adaptive optics maintain doughnut-shaped beams in scattering media
Gail Overton
Jul 1st, 2019
To create a gold grating on a nanowire array (a), the nanowires themselves (vertical projections) were used as shadow masks by depositing the gold at an angle to the surface, resulting in undeposited areas (dark regions). Future nanowire-based separate absorption and multiplication avalanche photodiodes (SAM-APDs) will have faceted nanowires to help relieve lattice-mismatch strain (b).
Detectors & Imaging
Short- and mid-wavelength infrared nanowire photodiodes are uncooled
John Wallace
Jul 1st, 2019
1907 Lfw09 12 Nb 3
Lasers & Sources
Fiber laser delivers 1300 and 1700 nm light simultaneously for three-photon microscopy
Gail Overton
Jul 1st, 2019
TUM's research aircraft lands fully automatically without ground-based systems.
Detectors & Imaging
Optical "autopilot" lands aircraft with camera-only reference system
Gail Overton
Jul 23rd, 2019
John Lewis 720
Commentary
Fiber sensing
John Lewis
Jul 1st, 2019
Ning Wang and Mona Jarrahi work on the terahertz detector setup.
Detectors & Imaging
UCLA-developed terahertz sensors work at room temperature
Jul 22nd, 2019
Organic photodetectors--used in smartphone fingerprint sensors and CMOS imagers--are getting a boost from an Isorg-Sumitomo partnership.
Detectors & Imaging
Isorg and Sumitomo partner to develop organic photodetectors
Gail Overton
Jul 2nd, 2019