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Test & Measurement
Credit: Kyv Grøn/DTU Electro
Andrea Arduin (left) and Professor Ole Bang, who heads the Fiber Sensors and Supercontinuum Group at DTU Electro, in the lab.
Lasers & Sources
‘Cooked’ fiber doubles range of ultralow-noise supercontinuum lasers
After heating an optical fiber for nearly an hour, researchers completely changed its dispersion within a small section and ended up with a supercontinuum that covers a wide range...
Sept. 30, 2026
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Bio&Life Sciences
PODCAST: Meet Eric Diebold, Waters Biosciences
Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
Sept. 29, 2026
Credit: Arnaud Pele/LIGO Laboratory
UC Riverside and LIGO Laboratory researchers move a 40-kg LIGO mirror into position to test a prototype FROSTI wavefront actuator in vacuum.
Detectors & Imaging
Wide-aperture wavefront sensing from thermal imaging
Sept. 29, 2026
Courtesy of European Space Agency and NASA, J. Rigby
A gravitationally lensed galaxy, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. A mirror image of the galaxy is at the center.
Test & Measurement
Gravitational lens discovery offers broader view of the Universe
Nov. 1, 2022
(Courtesy of PI)
FIGURE 1. In the development of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a nanopositioning system created by PI features a high-precision, 6-axis robotic hexapod, used to align the telescope’s 18 large mirror segments.
Software & Accessories
Evolving nanopositioning systems expand application base
Feb. 23, 2022
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Test & Measurement
Laser power and energy meter features a 217 × 136 mm display
Jan. 26, 2022
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