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    The Defense Precision Optics Consortium, the research and manufacturing arm of the American Center for Optics Manufacturing (AmeriCOM), is open for business and accepting members...
    Dec. 18, 2024
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    High-volume optical manufacturing of optical components that operate from 0.2 to 15 µm is offered.
    Dec. 1, 2024
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    A microscope image of the thinnest lens in the world.
    Quantum mechanical exciton resonances of a two-dimensional (2D) quantum material inspire physicists to explore excitons as resonant building blocks for tunable next-gen anatomically...
    Oct. 3, 2024
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    An optics-based machine-learning framework could be a game-changer in the push to design more advanced devices.
    Sept. 30, 2024
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    An optical revolution? Advancements in the design and manufacture of optical components leverages properties of metasurfaces and meta-optics to surpass traditional optical hardware...
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    How can you strike the right balance between laser damage resistance and group delay dispersion requirements?
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    Design Suite Version 11.2 optical design software advances the simulation and design flow for applications including direct detection and coherent transmission systems.
    May 26, 2024
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    Ansys Optics supports any type of sensor camera design, from UV to LWIR.
    Design engineers must be able to perform highly accurate simulations at multiple scales to predict the performance of modern optical devices.
    March 1, 2024
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) simulated in Quadoa.
    Multisequential, object-based architecture for modeling optical systems improves sequential optical design, analysis, optimization, and tolerancing capabilities with one program...
    Feb. 12, 2024
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    Purdue University researchers merge optical engineering with cutting-edge computational imaging techniques—a spinning metasurface stack breaks thermal light down into its spectral...
    Feb. 1, 2024
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    To choose the best optical design, buyers and engineers must be able to assess spot-diagram claims.
    Dec. 19, 2023

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