Aimpoint, founded in 1975 by Arne Ekstrand and Gunnar Sandberg, began as a red-dot optic company and briefly ran a firearms division after hiring inventor Carl Bertie Johansson. Circa 1979 they built ...

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Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of ...

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Nonlinear optics is the study of how intense light interacts with matter. The optical response of a material usually scales linearly with the amplitude of the electric field. At high powers, however, ...

Optics and photonics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and harnessing them in practical applications. Optics and photonics covers the entire electromagnetic spectrum from high-energy ...

Abstract: Placing the electrical and photonic chiplets in a single package leads to significant power reduction. Chiplets are connected by fine-line electrical routing over a length of a few ...