The F-22 will receive an embedded set of TacIRST sensors as part of the Infrared Defensive System to enhance aircraft survivability and lethality. Lockheed Martin announced on Jan. 22, 2025 ...

Optical physics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter. This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and ...

Optical illusions are more than just captivating images that trick the eye—they are windows into how our minds perceive the world around us. These intriguing visuals, often designed to confuse ...

These optical clocks are still being assessed, but already now, some are 100 times more accurate than cesium clocks. They will therefore become the future basis for the worldwide definition of the ...

A demo of Ambient Sensing for Zigbee lights shows how smart lights could soon be used as motion sensors with just a firmware update and no additional hardware. Philips Hue products may soon ...

Our sensor can handle tiny Braille details accurately and quickly." In the journal Optics Express, the researchers describe the new sensor, which consists of an optical fiber ring resonator embedded ...

In this modern age, IR sensors are typically used in motion detectors and the best VR headsets. In the latter, they measure the depth of a space and your proximity to things in your environment.

That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons hitting its aperture into electrical charges using either CMOS or CCD sensors ... can be encoded in optical properties like ...

Credit: Jon-Paul Maria Scientists at Penn State have discovered a method to induce ferroelectric properties in non-ferroelectric materials by layering them with ferroelectric materials, a phenomenon ...

told The Verge that within the mounting channel of the Joy-Cons is an optical sensor and that by using another attachment, they may offer mouse-like functionality. The Verge compares this ...

MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P. R. China ...