Category Photonics

Photonics, Space Technology, Defense & Exploration

DARPA MuS2 developing Muon Source to detect shielded nuclear contraband, to objects deeply buried up to thousands of meters below the earth’s surface

Muons are subatomic particles that behave a lot like electrons but are around 200 times heavier. As the US Department of Energy explains, “Muons created in the atmosphere constantly hit every inch of the Earth’s surface and pass through almost…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 3, 2023

Biotech & Synthetic Biology, Photonics

DARPA developed Battlefield Illusion for deception Electro-Optical Warfare

Magicians and generals have had a long-standing relationship – one that produced very real effects during wartime. Harry Houdini snooped on the German and the Russian militaries for Scotland Yard. English illusionist Jasper Maskelyne is reported to have created dummy…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 31, 2023

Biotech & Synthetic Biology, Photonics

Optical and Laser Illusions

Optical illusions (or visual illusions) are tricks that your mind plays on you based on what you think you are seeing. The image that is being visually perceived is deceptive and does not tally with actual reality. So what you are…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 30, 2023

Photonics, Quantum

High Resolution Quantum enhanced LIDAR technology can detect Stealth Aircrafts

Quantum technology (QT) applies quantum mechanical properties such as quantum entanglement, quantum superposition, and No-cloning theorem to quantum systems such as atoms, ions, electrons, photons, or molecules. Quantum bit is the basic unit of quantum information. Whereas in a classical system,…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 28, 2023

Photonics

3D camera technology for computer vision and Metaverse Applications

A regular (non 3D) camera records images either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies, which in turn are stored in a physical medium such as in a digital system or on photographic film.…...

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Rajesh Uppal
January 24, 2023

Manufacturing, Mechanical, Photonics

Digital Camera design and manufacturing

A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital and digital movie cameras share an optical system, typically using a…...

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Rajesh Uppal
December 27, 2022

Photonics, Weapons & Munitions

Semi-Active Lasers/Passive seeker technology

Guided missiles work by tracking the moving target’s location in space by specific methods (e.g. using a radar or following its heat signature), chasing it down, and finally hitting it with accuracy. Guidance systems in missiles can be of various types, which…...

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Rajesh Uppal
December 4, 2022

Human & Soldier Systems, Photonics

Military Laser Rangefinder essential for observation, target location and long range fire-control

A laser rangefinder is a rangefinder that uses a laser beam to determine the distance to an object. The most common form of laser rangefinder operates on the time of flight principle by sending a laser pulse in a narrow…...

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Rajesh Uppal
September 2, 2022

Industry & Market Dynamics, Photonics

Laser sensors for military sonars and monitoring military assets and earthquakes

Laser, a device that stimulates atoms or molecules to emit light at particular wavelengths and amplifies that light, typically producing a very narrow beam of radiation. Lasers deliver coherent, monochromatic, well-controlled, and precisely directed light beams. Laser technology has observed a…...

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Rajesh Uppal
September 1, 2022

Biotech & Synthetic Biology, Nanotech, Photonics

Nanobiophotonics multidisciplinary field of nanotechnology, biomedical science, and photonics Applications

This is the age of multidisciplinary frontiers in science and technology where major breakthroughs are likely to occur at the interfaces of disciplines. Light has always fascinated mankind and since the beginning of recorded history, it has been both…...

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Rajesh Uppal
August 27, 2022