Who would have thought you could make a game out of an optical bench? [Chris Mitchell] did, and while we were skeptical at first, his laser Light Bender game has some potential. Just watch your eyes.

The LISA Pathfinder – an international technology demonstrator to pave the way for the eLISA spaceborne gravitational wave observation mission – last month reached another key milestone: its heart, ...

IN accurate measurements of focal-lengths and the like, on an optical bench, it is customary to employ the points of pins mounted on adjustable stands. The lens under test has itself to be so mounted ...

A spectrometer is an imaging system used to map plurality of monochromatic images of the entrance slit onto the detector plane. This slit determines the amount of light (photon flux) that enters the ...

-Successful experiment to receive downlink light at NICT optical ground station from DLR optical terminal mounted on Univ. of Stuttgart's Flying Laptop satellite -Succeeded in the initial experiment ...

How does a spectrometer work? In spectroscopy, photons encounter many components and undergo a variety of processes before registering as a spectrum. Let's see what happens to these photons once they ...