Such alignment is critical for chip-scale devices that employ the radiation emitted by quantum dots to store and transmit quantum information. For the first time, the NIST researchers achieved this ...

Accurate alignment of quantum dots with photonic components is critical for extracting the radiation emitted by the dots. In this illustration, a quantum dot centered in the optical "hotspot" of a ...

A microscopy platform able to localize single-molecule emitters with ultrahigh precision has allowed direct measurement of the distance between molecules in intact cells, on a scale between 1 and 20 ...

A fast active optical photonics alignment system based on a compact motorized XYZ stage (L-505) and a high-speed XYZ piezo scanner (P-616). A high level controller with internal alignment routines ...

The demand for disposable miniature imaging platforms (DMIPs) is growing rapidly. Used for commercial, scientific, medical, and educational purposes, DMIPs have numerous applications but can be ...

Find out how WITec - a manufacturer of high-resolution near-field atomic force microscopes and confocal Raman systems - can provide superior instruments with nano-positioning technology from PI ─ ...

A team of researchers at the University of Iowa has created a new infrared cryo microscope. The homemade microscope was created to enable the recent study aimed at deepening the understanding of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Liquid crystals (LCs) are optically anisotropic materials, and they are widely used in electro-optical display technology, known as liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Understanding ...

Optical Perspectives Group, LLC is a consulting firm specializing in the hardware aspects of optical assembly, testing and alignment. In support of these functions, OPG markets three products; the ...

When Ben Wells, president of Wells R&D (Lincoln, MA), a maker of custom testing solutions for the semiconductor and optical industries, was building a test instrument, he needed to way to stack and ...