Just buy one with the right beam angle, and you are off. Right? Well maybe, but probably not. Because there are a few more things to think about before you can be pretty sure that what you buy will do ...

Maybe everyone else has known this for ages, but at last there is enough information on led and collimator data sheets to work out how far one should be form the other to get the specified beam. This ...

Market analyst company Frost & Sullivan has presented Luxexcel Group, Goes, Netherlands, with the 2012 European Frost & Sullivan Enabling Technology Award for its Printoptical Technology. Luxexcel's ...

Call us easily amused, but we think it’s pretty amazing what can be done with a microcontroller, some RGB LEDs, and a little bit of plastic. Case in point is [andrei.erdei]’s beautiful and quite ...

The days of the quartz halogen lamp in machine vision applications could be over. Jacqueline Hewett finds out how Edmund Optics went back to basics to improve the coupling efficiency of an LED, ...

[Peter] has finished up his fiber optic microscope light source. When we last visited [Peter] he created a dimmer circuit for a 10 watt LED. That LED driver has now found its final home in [Peter’s] ...

I’m something of a headlight nerd. In a previous life, I retrofitted HID projector headlamps onto my 2009 Honda Civic Si for better light output. I’m planning a similar project for my beater 2015 VW ...

Dr. Hönle AG has developed a new lens type for its bluepoint LED UV curing unit series, which focuses the light into a linear irradiation and can therefore cure adhesives with a significantly higher ...

OMC has unveiled a fibre optic emitter designated the FDE854LBF, which incorporates next-generation infra-red die technology and integral micro-optics to achieve high levels of coupled power into all ...

SCHOTT provides custom and standard Fiber Optic and LED illumination solutions for Machine Vision, OEM, Microscopy and Medical applications. We offer over 400 standard products from light sources to ...

Ledlink Optics, a Taiwan-based maker of LED optics used in LED lighting, has entered cooperation with five Japan-based suppliers of LED street lamps and will begin cooperative design in February 2013, ...