by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
What are Optical Homogenizers, and What Applications do they Serve? Homogenizers, also known as ‘light pipes’, are examples of optical waveguides that are designed to combine and integrate a number of sources – and power levels – of light, including lasers; even out a...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Below we will share the impressions made and the deep thoughts provoked as the above GIF progressed to greater and greater distances. Orbiting Earth The first part shows a beam of light orbiting the Earth. It makes the trip 7.5 times every second. The depiction...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Elon Musk, the madman-genius-engineer behind Palo Alto-based automaker Tesla, made big waves when he declared that “Anyone relying on lidar [for self-driving cars] is doomed. Doomed.” Tesla’s current vehicles use radar, GPS, maps, ultrasonic...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
The materials we work with last for a really, really long time. Sapphire, hard ceramics, glass. So it’s no surprise that scientists are finding ways to use them to store information that could be vital to future generations, from our scientific discoveries to...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
The promise of nuclear power is enormous. It produces energy via nuclear fission rather than chemical burning, generating a huge amount of electricity while putting zero carbon into the atmosphere. It works constantly. On average, nuclear power plants produce energy...
