PROGRESS in nearly every branch of scientific investigation is dependent on the provision of suitable measuring apparatus. As the science develops, an ever-increasing degree of accuracy of measurement ...

Astronomy has always relied on optical instruments, from the early Galilean telescope to fiber-fed spectrographs, so much so that astronomy and modern optics are called astrophotonics. Since ...

IN his Thomas Young Oration of the Physical Society on December 6, Prof. Charles Fabry discussed “Vision in Optical Instruments”. Classical theory gives the resolving power of an optical instrument as ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, PA, Aug. 13, 2008 – ABB, a power and automation technology company, today announced the launch of a new generation of magneto optical current transducer (MOCT-P) optical instrument ...