OBTAIN a measurement, however rough then endeavour to get a better, was the advice that Lord Kelvin used to urge upon his students. Quantitative analysis is the natural supplement of qualitative ...

A platform enabling automation of lot sizes as small as one part is helping Mach Medical on its mission for just-in-time orthopedic implant manufacturing.

The fiber itself is used as a transducer in many fiber optic sensing systems (see the section titled “Fiber Sensors,” in ADVANCES IN OPTICAL METROLOGY, the section titled “Optical Fiber Sensors,” in ...

Precision manufacturing relies on accurate and precise dimensional metrology for process monitoring and control. Simply put, it is impossible to sustain a manufacturing process that is both accurate ...

A laser Doppler vibrometer’s (LDV) real-time capability enables measurement times roughly six orders of magnitude smaller compared to any method that is based on strobe techniques or provides a ...

Polytec's optical measurement equipment focuses on dynamic response measurements. MEMS devices typically have actively moving ...

Digital holography possesses the advantages of wide-field, non-contact, precise, and dynamic measurements for the complex amplitude of object waves. Today, digital holography and its derivatives have ...

How fluorescence detection is used for in vitro diagnostics. Requirements for building an effective fluorescence-detection system. Why an integrated optical front-end receiver makes the most sense in ...

Optical PAM4 technology is going mainstream, being incorporated into Ethernet standards such as IEEE 802.3bs and 802.3cd (400G, 200G, 100G and 50G speeds). The characterization, compliance, and ...