Imaging of optical caustics during printing offers new data on quality of additive manufacture.

Fine-tunes solar gain in real time and protects itself against environmental contaminants.

Optical sieve method offers new analysis tool in environmental and health research.

…and Flir launches Boson+ IQ thermal imaging system at UK arms expo DSEI 2025.

…while AI-powered vision system monitors human movements inside vehicles.

Electrowetting beam-steering prism allows smaller devices without sacrificing performance.

Ultrathin flexible lens simplifies diagnostic test for retinal function.

An 8x “leap” in bidirectional wavelengths per fiber opens door for new AI data centers.

Hybrid system achieves position accuracy greater than 0.1% of distance traveled in 1.4km deep mine.

With optical and sonar sensor combination, drone automatically maps riverbed and banks.

ESA has made Europe’s first deep-space optical link with NASA’s Psyche mission.

Applications include smart phone, lidar and camera assist, robotics, gesture recognition, and object detection.