10.06.2025 • News
Metalenses make infrared light visible
Tiny structures made of lithium niobate can half the wavelength of incident light.
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20.05.2025 • News
Metasufaces replace conventional lenses
New device allows more precise control of light than previously possible.
08.04.2025 • News
The future of telescope lenses is flat
First flat telescope lens can capture color while detecting light from faraway stars.
04.02.2025 • News
3D printing of precise headlight lenses
New study shows that 3D printing achieves precision and quality while reducing costs and production speeds.
30.01.2025 • News
Thin optical lenses for mass production
Fresnel zone plates have a high potential for astronomy, health care and consumer electronics.
28.08.2024 • News
Deep learning improves lens design
An automated scheme for optical lens design looks set to enhance mobile phone cameras.
26.07.2024 • News
An inkjet-printed microlens array for compact cameras
Palm-sized multispectral 3D camera could improve autonomous driving and remote sensing.
31.05.2024 • News
Harnessing blurred light to 3D print high quality microlenses
A new method produces commercial grade optical components with smooth surfaces.
16.04.2024 • News • Machine Vision
Edmund Optics China receives ISO 14064-1 certification
Edmund Optics' production facility in Shenzen, China, has received ISO 14064-1 certification. This forms the basis for monitoring and reporting on greenhouse gases with the aim of reducing them.
16.02.2024 • News
Spiral-shaped lens provides clearer vision
New optical device could help those with cataracts or age-related vision problems.
27.10.2023 • News
Superlensing without a superlens
New technique could be used in medical imaging and advanced manufacturing.
28.09.2023 • News
Vision Engineering purchases third lathe
Vision Engineering purchased a third fixed head lathe, a Biglia B620YS. It is used in the English factory in Send, Woking.
11.08.2023 • News
Thin metasurfaces instead of thick lenses
Producing metastructures on large surfaces with electron beam lithography.
09.08.2023 • News
Edmund Optics appointed new Chief Financial Officer
Edmund Optics appoints Linda Fonner as chief financial officer.
23.06.2023 • News
Talbot effect for thousands and thousands of qubits
Optical effect advances quantum computing with atomic qubits to a new dimension.
13.06.2023 • News
Resolve Optics has opened a new Vibration Test Center
In the new vibration test center, the in-house lens test devices are primarily tested.
12.06.2023 • News
New low-cost material for IR lenses
An entirely new polymer material made from sulfur and cyclopentadiene.
07.06.2023 • News
A Fresnel time lens could improve quantum information transport
New approach makes quantum information transmission dozens of times faster.
19.05.2023 • News
New lens analysis approach could improve treatments for nearsightedness
Instrumentation recreates properties of the myopic eye to test lenses that prevent visual decline.
02.05.2023 • News
Edmund Optics and ISP Optics Enter into Distribution Agreement
Edmund Optics customers can now source products directly from ISP Optics
08.02.2023 • News
Electrically switchable objective lenses
Metaobjective lens can change its focal length by the push of a button.
18.01.2023 • News
Boosting sensitivity of large telescopes
Receiver optics confirmed in lab prior to installation at Simons Observatory with radio holography.
30.12.2022 • News
Metalens offers superior off-axis focus
Enhanced off-axis focusing allows a wide range of optical tasks spanning from optical tweezers to imaging.
14.11.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision
The winners of the inspect award 2022 have been announced
The winners of the inspect award 2022 have been announced. Three products in each of the two categories received awards at the Vision trade show.
14.11.2022 • News
Chroma appoints Chris Karp as sales director
Chris Karp rejoined Chroma after a break of just over ten years and has been appointed Sales Manager, effective immediately.
23.09.2022 • News
Tunable lenses for virtual reality headsets
Variable focus length lays groundwork for more comfortable, realistic AR/VR experiences.
21.09.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision
Why not to Make the Lens an Afterthought in an Embedded AI Vision System
There is a variety of factors that drive image quality. Making the right choice across the range will help to simplify the challenges and the complexity of AI systems and increase imaging performance along the way.
20.09.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision
Innovative Components and Setups Extend Previous Limits
Combining a regular industrial camera and lens with a 2D fast steering mirror and a liquid lens enables an extreme expansion of the Field-Of-View (FOV) and the Depth-Of-Focus (DOF).
08.08.2022 • News
Edmund Optics strengthens Business Development
In the newly created position of senior vice president of corporate development at Edmund Optics, James Fisher will lead business development strategies, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic investment partnerships and activities. The lens manufacturer is thus strengthening its focus on global growth and expansion.
13.06.2022 • News • Machine Vision
Customized optics individually developed
For customized applications in optical machine monitoring of plants, Vision & Control now also offers the development of individual optics.
13.05.2022 • News
More production capacity for the world’s smallest lenses
GD Optical Competence GmbH is investing around six million euros in its new production and administration site in the community of Sinn. On May 6, 2022, the groundbreaking ceremony took place for the construction of the company's new nearly 2,000-square-meter production facility.
09.05.2022 • News
Electron lens formed by light
The realization of light-based aberration corrector will significantly reduce installation costs for electron microscopes with atomic resolution.
29.04.2022 • News
Edmund Optics Establishes Facility in Cherry Hill
Edmund Optics has announced the opening of its facility in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.
14.04.2022 • Contributions • Machine Vision
Fixed Focal Length or Telecentric Lens?
How do telecentric lenses work? And how exactly do they differ from fixed focal length lenses? This article introduces the peculiarities and explains why telecentric models are predominantly used in optical metrology.
26.08.2021 • News
Edmund Optics becomes global distributor for Everix ultra-thin filters
Edmund Optics now offers ultra-thin optical filters in cooperation with Everix. The optical component manufacturer and supplier is the exclusive global distributor for the ever-expanding product line and keeps the entire selection of ultra-thin filters in stock.
