Latest Case Studies
Getting hip with the groove
Syncroscopy | Added: 26 Jan 2005
Automated microscope focus and stage control system is improving the imaging of human hip bones at …
Precision optics expands telescope capabilities
Optical Surfaces | Added: 6 Jan 2005
Spectrograph optics will enable the Hexapod telescope to capture all polarisation components of ste…
Airborne analysis of environmental pollutants
Optical Surfaces | Added: 8 Dec 2004
Aircraft will erform tropospheric chemistry measurements, cloud physics and dynamic studies, radiat…
New ant species identified by imaging software
Syncroscopy | Added: 14 Oct 2004
Harvard University researchers use 3D imaging system in comprehensiove cataloguing project and conf…
Scope gains converts in Edinburgh
Nikon | Added: 20 Sep 2004
Although it was only installed in May 2004, the Nikon Coolscope in the National CJD Surveillance Un…
Imaging an irreplaceable collection
Syncroscopy | Added: 9 Sep 2004
Images of world's largest rotifer reference collection captured on CD in less than three months by …
Optics enhance wind sensing by lidar
Optical Surfaces | Added: 28 May 2004
Key focusing optics supplied to new low-cost fibre lidar system, for making local wind speed measur…
Shedding light on fusion research
Cedip Infrared Systems | Added: 9 Apr 2004
Joint European Torus, currently the world's largest nuclear fusion research facility, will install …
Getting the bugs into the system
Syncroscopy | Added: 3 Dec 2003
Major insect imaging project at Harvard aims to produce definitive images of the 11,000 recognised …
Finding drugs for spinal injuries
Syngene | Added: 29 Oct 2003
Automated image analyser is allowing scientists at King's College London to improve the accuracy of…
Spectropolarimeter helps unlock stellar secrets
Optical Surfaces | Added: 11 Aug 2003
Instrument will be able to capture all polarisation components of stellar light across a complete o…
Optometrist to the stars
Optical Surfaces | Added: 11 Jun 2003
Specialised optics employed in new Earth observing system to visualise phenomena virtually unobserv…
Development of a compact x-ray laser
Optical Surfaces | Added: 28 May 2003
Scientists at Jaeri have demonstrated gain saturation of nickel-like ion x-ray lasers at wavelength…
Optimised near-IR tunable optical filter
Optical Surfaces | Added: 27 May 2003
The demanding specifications required of the etalon pairs was better than lambda/200 matching accur…
Microchannel plates help probe deep space
Optical Surfaces | Added: 23 May 2003
High-precision microchannel plate blanks have been used in a series of space research projects, and…
Norak buys second cell analyser
GE Healthcare | Added: 9 May 2003
Chooses additional In Cell analyser to support internal drug discovery programme and a new screenin…
Next-generation tunable optical filter
Optical Surfaces | Added: 14 Apr 2003
High resolution liquid crystal Fabry-Perot etalon provides a solid-state, tunable interferometer wh…
Development of efficient compact x-ray laser
Optical Surfaces | Added: 2 Apr 2003
Scientists at Jaeri have demonstrated gain saturation of nickel-like ion x-ray lasers at wavelength…
A picture of fusion
Cedip Infrared Systems | Added: 17 Feb 2003
First IR images from plasma facing components inside nuclear fusion reactor at Cadarache in France …
Oxford physiology lab chooses TIRF
Nikon | Added: 3 Feb 2003
University cardiology researchers employ total internal reflection fluorescence system to further t…
