Posts Tagged ‘lidar’
What Optics Do You Need for Your Lidar Development?
These days almost every optics magazine seems to have articles covering some aspect of lidar systems. Lidar, or LiDAR if you prefer, is the acronym for Light Detection And Ranging and sees applications in fields such as topographic land mapping, aerial inspection, agriculture and defense. The big growth area we’ve seen in recent years has…
Read MoreWhether it’s hot or cold, stay focused! What’s involved in lens athermalization.
A huge range of commercial-off-the-shelf lenses are readily available from many catalog optics suppliers. However, sometimes what you want is not available and you just need a custom design. One of the features often required in custom lenses is that they operate over a wide temperature range without manual or motorized adjustment. You find such…
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