I recently had to build an infrared close proximity sensor that could tell if something was dropped in a parcel delivery drop box. After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece ...

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has successfully demonstrated a fully integrated, high-performance infrared sensor ahead of schedule for the Risk Reduction Alternative Infrared Satellite Systems program.

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Millennium Space Systems have received separate contracts to create digital models of sensor technology for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning ...

To counter China and Russia’s growing arsenal of hypersonic and ballistic missiles, the Space Development Agency is moving quickly to develop and launch a constellation of missile ...

Detecting wavelengths beyond visible light—for instance, infrared light—offers clear advantages. Case in point is cameras in autonomous vehicles that ‘see’ through smoke or fog and cameras that unlock ...

$750k funding to develop infrared sensor for pollutants including nitrates and ammonia; similar detectors for E. coli may follow. Texas-based photonics company Max-IR Labs has won $750,000 in Small ...

After seven years of development, a research team in Malaysia says its photonics-based non-invasive blood glucose monitor is close to a commercial roll-out. Emerging from the photonics technology ...