A new fortuitous alignment has allowed a cluster of galaxies to play a crucial role. Nicknamed the “carousel lens,” this unique gravitational lens reveals not one, but seven distant galaxies.

A nanofabricated silicon template holds two independent multilayer Laue lenses with high precision for easy alignment to create a nano-focused X-ray beam. Scientists have developed a new type of lens ...

A cut-in half Canon EF 400mm F2.8L IS II lens from 2010, shown surround by all the components from which it's made, in the ...

Micron-Level Alignment Accuracy: The TRIOPTICS OptiCentric ® system uses advanced optical metrology to determine and compensate decentering errors. These errors can then be corrected by precisely ...

Increasing demands on the performance of optical systems require tighter mechanical and optical tolerances. Thus, it has become unfeasible – both technologically as well as financially – to manually ...

Gravitational lensing, predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity, involves the bending of light from a distant object (e.g., a quasar) by a closer, massive object (e.g., a galaxy), acting as a lens ...

NASHUA, N.H., Oct. 16, 2017 Clear Align announces the acquisition of optical and electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) systems and lens design, fabrication and coating capabilities from General Dynamics ...

Scientists have developed a new type of lens that focuses an X-ray beam to nanometer levels. This is a scale smaller than a single virus. The monolithic 2-D multilayer Laue lenses (MLLs) can focus an ...