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In 2014, Thorlabs acquired Corning Inc.'s line of quantum cascade lasers and entered into a partnership with Daylight Solutions to produce the laser for defense and security applications. [28] In 2015, Thorlabs acquired Pantec's line of Elliptec product line. [29] In 2018, Thorlabs acquired Norland Products' line of fiber optic products. [30]
He returned to Sussex County, and has made an effort to keep the business headquartered there due to his love for the area. [3] By 2004, Thorlabs had estimated annual sales of $50 million and was expanding into Europe. [5] By 2010, sales had reached $125 million annually. [2]
Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique of precisely deforming a mirror in order to compensate for light distortion. It is used in astronomical telescopes [ 1 ] and laser communication systems to remove the effects of atmospheric distortion , in microscopy, [ 2 ] optical fabrication [ 3 ] and in retinal imaging systems [ 4 ] to reduce optical ...
The combination of large mirrors, locations selected for stable atmosphere and favorable climate conditions, and active optics and adaptive optics to correct for much of atmospheric turbulence allow the largest Earth based telescopes to reach higher resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope. [1]
Edmund Scientific Corporation, based in Barrington, New Jersey, was founded in 1942 as a retailer of surplus optical parts like lenses.It later branched out into complete systems like telescopes and microscopes, and in the 1960s, a wide variety of science toys and kits.
The purpose of Starfire is to conduct research to use adaptive optics to remove the effects of scintillation (atmospheric turbulence). [1] Turbulence interferes with laser beam integrity over distances. Lasers are being used for long-distance high-bandwidth communications and accuracy in air-to-air laser connectivity is important for data ...
Powerful laser guide star system at the Paranal Observatory. The actual laser guide star is the small spot above the apparent end of the laser beam. A laser guide star is an artificial star image created for use in astronomical adaptive optics systems, which are employed in large telescopes in order to correct atmospheric distortion of light (called astronomical seeing).
Three-photon excitation microscopy (3PEF) was first performed in 1964 by S. Singh and L. T. Bradley at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada. [3] This technology was further advanced in 1996 by Stefan Hell and others, who demonstrated the possibility of applying three-photon excitation microscopy to scanning fluorescence microscopy, paving the way for later applications of 3PEF.