Category: Laser

  • Optical Design comes to the iPad!

    Optical Design comes to the iPad!

    Over the past 5 years, almost every project I’ve worked on has required some level of optic design. In many cases, simple designs suffice. For example, projecting anĀ LED can be accomplished at a basic level with an aspheric condenser. But when designs require flatĀ fields, especially corrective elements, or apochromatic performance, it’s time to leverage commercial…

  • How to use external triggers on scientific and industrial cameras

    How to use external triggers on scientific and industrial cameras

    Controlling a camera from an external trigger can be very useful. External triggering provides greater timing accuracy, direct control over exposure duration, and remote operation from TTL devices. This is a prime reason I made the Triggerscope controller, so I though it would be useful to explain how this works and what you can do…