A robot equipped with a LiDAR (light detection and ranging) laser explores the area. LiDAR technology uses pulses of light to scan the environment and measure distances.

Applications include gas sensing for environmental and pollution monitoring in cities, direct optical communications for field-based or satellite communications networks, materials processing, ...

OdiPro laser rangefinder set for use on combat vehicle. The LUMIBIRD Group (FR0000038242 - LBIRD), the European leader in laser technologies, announces that its subsidiary Lumibird Photonics Sweden AB ...

Phlux Technology is offering an evaluation board for its Aura family of Noiseless InGaAs avalanche photodiodes (APDs). The APDs are used as 1550nm infrared sensors and claim 12 times greater ...

Chinese Laser Sensor Maker Targeted as Tech Trade War Spreads Hesai is fighting U.S. concerns about lidar systems used in next-generation vehicles and weapons ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester and University of California, Santa Barbara, engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems ...

Hesai Group, the world’s largest maker of lidar sensors, plans to expand its manufacturing capacity fourfold this year amid surging demand for its products used in driver-assistance systems in ...

--ROHM Semiconductor today announced the RLD90QZW8 high-power laser diode, ideal for industrial equipment and consumer applications requiring distance measurement and spatial recognition. In ...

Texas Instruments' LMH13000 integrated laser driver delivers an 800-ps rise time and 50-mA to 5-A adjustable output current, enabling LiDAR modules in vehicles and autonomous mobile robots ...

The once-forgotten city was detected from the skies by LiDAR and contains pyramids, a ball court and spaces marked out by unusual stone columns.

Satellite data have long told us where forests are and how they’re faring. Lidar, laser-based radar mounted on planes or satellites like the International Space Station, has helped us map ...