Optomechanics
November 27, 2013 Leave a comment
- Nikon Lens Cross-Section
Opto-mechanical Design is a blog discussing engineering and design of all things related to photonic, optical or relative technologies and innovation.
Opto-mechanics education, information and related engineering topics.
November 27, 2013 Leave a comment
Opto-mechanical Design is a blog discussing engineering and design of all things related to photonic, optical or relative technologies and innovation.
November 29, 2015 Leave a comment
With the last days of 2015 and the International Year of Light coming to a close, be sure to browse some of the great articles at the following link that remain open access through the end of 2015.
Great articles from “Physics Review Letters” include “Focus: Invention of the Maser and Laser”, January 27, 2005, Phys. Rev. Focus 15, 4
http://physics.aps.org/story/v15/st4
Celebrating the 2015 International Year of Light http://physics.aps.org/IYL
November 8, 2015 Leave a comment
Advances in material science are an important factor in the development of new technology and innovation we see around us every day. From light weight materials to drive fuel efficiency in cars and aircraft to innovation in the development of micro-electronics. Often the inventors of new devices or macroscale systems get the limelight from these contributions to science, engineering and its effect on society. However, there are many scientists that are working hard behind the scenes driving innovation in the form of materials science. The advancement in materials science directly correlates to the development of new instruments and devices. These developments help propel us in the areas of photonics & optomechanics, consumer electronics, fuel cells and energy system and a plethora of other areas of technology.
The following open access article discusses this topic with several links to many of these developments throughout history.
Article from Physics Today: Granular crystals: Nonlinear dynamics meets materials engineering
June 1, 2014 Leave a comment
World Largest Heat Shield Attached to NASA’s Orion Crew Capsule for Crucial Fall 2014 Test Flight – http://pulse.me/s/1jUYmZ
May 17, 2014 Leave a comment
Check out this video of three FLIR Tau’s with different pixel arrays tested side by side on a drone flight…
May 17, 2014 Leave a comment
Why establish “waystations” at the Earth-Moon L1 point or other locations in space, as some have proposed? John Strickland draws an analogy to terrestrial transportation systems to explain how such facilities could make space exploration and development more affordable.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2221/1
April 25, 2014 Leave a comment
http://www.space.com/25548-military-foldable-space-telescope-darpa-space.ht
DARPA’s development of a relatively low cost space telescope dwarfs the size of other well know space telescopes such as the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescope(s).
Size Comparison of DARPA’s foldable space telescope concept versus other space telescopes
April 25, 2014 Leave a comment
Check out this descriptive page listing a few devices created by amateur telescope enthusiasts that developed their own methods and tools for creating lenses.
April 7, 2014 Leave a comment
Entangling Photons with Mismatched Colors.
Alessandro Fedrizzi, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Published March 10, 2014 | Physics 7, 25 (2014) | DOI: 10.1103/Physics.7.25
Using a frequency eraser, researchers have, for the first time, entangled two independent photons with different frequencies.
March 9, 2014 Leave a comment
Gimbals? We dont need gimbals…..take a look at this device that captures panaromic video…..
360Fly captures interactive panoramic video http://www.gizmag.com/360fly-interactive-panoramic-video/31085/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=2c825a3b86-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-2c825a3b86-90987337