Despite their prevalent use in patient treatment, to many, using lasers as surgical tools can seem like something out of science fiction. However, laser-assisted surgery is now a reality and marks a ...

The phrase ‘laser-induced damage’ encompasses a range of deleterious effects occurring in imaging sensors when they are exposed to high-intensity laser radiation. Advances in laser technology, ...

With the development of the information era, sensors capable of transmitting and detecting information have become the leading way to obtain information. Therefore, building a sensor system with a ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The burgeoning demands for health care and human-machine interfaces call for the next generation of multifunctional and flexible integrated sensor systems. Principally, flexible ...

Coherent Corp. has announced the expansion of its PowerMax sensor portfolio with the introduction of the PM15K+ high-power laser sensor and a backscatter shield for the PM10K+. The PM15K+ can measure ...

Machines are moving beyond single-point sensing. Multi-sensor fusion now delivers vision, ranging and inertial data. The ...

From autonomous vehicles to optical testing, these sensors bring high performance infrared detection into real-world systems.

A project at Penn State University has taken a step towards environmental sensors better able to detect multiple gas species simultaneously. The new approach exploits advances in laser writing ...

A study published in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing by Prof. Kaichen Xu and his colleagues at Zhejiang University outlines a hybrid laser direct writing technique that enables the ...

A project at Brazil's Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) has manufactured sensors for potential use in medical and industrial applications by laser writing onto fallen leaves. Published in ACS ...

Customers kept telling the engineers at Banner Engineering that they needed to sense objects at greater distances than the inches to feet possible with existing photoelectric and laser sensors; for ...