by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Say goodbye to that cold goop, and say hello to a new laser ultrasound that can make reading from half a meter away. Importantly, it won’t blast away what it’s trying to measure thanks to the laser selected for the system — 1,550-nanometer, a wavelength absorbed...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Remote piloted aircraft, commonly called drones, are designed to go where it’s too dangerous for humans to go. IRD Glass fabricates sapphire optics for the aerospace and defense contractors that produce these amazing vehicles. We can customize every...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
As an official Borofloat® distributor, IRD Glass can meet your float glass needs quickly and efficiently. One of the most common Borofloat materials we work with is Borofloat 33, a versatile borosilicate glass with excellent light transmission, thermal stability...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
The detection and mapping technology known as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) that was first developed by NASA and used on the Apollo 15 mission to map the surface of the moon is now leading to groundbreaking advances in driverless cars and robotics (and...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
A laser ranging retroreflector, a special kind of mirror that always reflects an incoming light beam back in the direction it came from, was placed on the lunar surface fifty years ago by the crew of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, close to the end of their...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Geiger counters and other traditional radiation detection systems rely on a radioactive decay particle interacting directly with a detector. That means close proximity to radiation is necessary because the presence of decay particles drops sharply with distance. Now...
