Image: University of Glasgow / Quantic
Scientists have built a time-of-flight imager from a single optical fibre, while a group in the US has developed a camera the size of a grain of salt
Work from quantum imaging hub's first three years was showcased at an event in London on 22 November 2017. Credit: Dan Tsantilis and EPSRC
The UK quantum enhanced imaging hub, Quantic, has secured £28 million in UK funding to continue development of sensing and imaging equipment using quantum technologies
European quantum scientists have laid out a revised roadmap detailing the way research in quantum technology will be taken forward, including research into quantum sensing and imaging
A multispectral imaging device small enough to be installed on a nanosatellite is being developed in research led by the University of Strathclyde
Greg Blackman looks at novel imaging devices based on quantum science, and finds that the technology is closer to commercialisation than first expected
Work from the first three years of the £270 million UK National Quantum Technology programme, including that from the quantum imaging hub, was showcased at an event in London on 22 November
At Laser World of Photonics in Munich, the UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging was displaying a number of imaging project demonstrators, including a methane gas camera being built in collaboration with M Squared Lasers
A glass inspection system must distinguish between flawless and waste products to achieve automotive glass wafers free of optical distortions
Susan Fourtané on the increasing demands being placed on web inspection solutions to achieve zero-defect manufacturing
Automation is the only way for e-commerce and logistics firms to fulfil orders since the dramatic uptick in online shopping brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic
Facing new pressures and demands, logistics operations are calling for adaptable machine vision solutions to drive efficiency, discovers Benjamin Skuse
Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography
Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography
Left: A semiconductor wafer shown to be opaque to white visible light. Right: the wafer is mostly transparent to SWIR light at a wavelength of 1,200nm, making it a suitable wavelength for semiconductor inspection.
Hunting defects in the soon-to-be trillion-dollar semiconductor industry is big business. Anita Chandran explores the latest wafer inspection technology
