A new fortuitous alignment has allowed a cluster of galaxies to play a crucial role. Nicknamed the “carousel lens,” this unique gravitational lens reveals not one, but seven distant galaxies.

A nanofabricated silicon template holds two independent multilayer Laue lenses with high precision for easy alignment to create a nano-focused X-ray beam. Scientists have developed a new type of lens ...

Scientists have developed a new type of lens that focuses an X-ray beam to nanometer levels. This is a scale smaller than a single virus. The monolithic 2-D multilayer Laue lenses (MLLs) can focus an ...

Hexapod motion systems are the most versatile multi-axis positioning systems, also called Stewart Platforms, for industrial, research, and medical applications. A traditional hexapod parallel ...

Full baffle and lens alignment assembly, designed to minimize stray light, mass, and size, and maximize optical performance. Sandia National Laboratories sponsored a project to create a new design for ...

Gravitational lensing, predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity, involves the bending of light from a distant object (e.g., a quasar) by a closer, massive object (e.g., a galaxy), acting as a lens ...