Thorlabs

09/01/2026

📢 Educational Webinar
Learn how optics, illumination, precision motion systems, and machine construction work together to produce reliable measurements. 📏

Metrology Systems Site Leader at Thorlabs, Christopher Sallitt will introduce the fundamentals of video metrology and discuss the key factors that influence measurement accuracy, repeatability, and long-term system performance.

Whether you're new to video metrology or looking to deepen your understanding of measurement system design, this webinar offers valuable insights for engineers, manufacturers, and metrology professionals.

Register to attend and receive the webinar recording via email.
📆Wednesday, September 9, 2026
🕛12 pm EDT
🔗https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5346554/E57F88718442F338CC3E88E1B421C0C4?partnerref=Facebook

📺Thorlabs’ video CMM systems provide highly accurate coordinate measurements.

08/26/2026

From Nobel Prize-winning advances in microscopy to today's integrated imaging platforms, innovation in optical science continues to reveal biology in unprecedented detail.

Thorlabs is proud to support the technologies behind groundbreaking instruments like MOSAIC, recently featured in Nature Methods. Researchers introduced MOSAIC (Multimodal Optical Scope with Adaptive Imaging Correction), a reconfigurable platform that combines light-sheet, super-resolution, label-free, and multiphoton imaging with adaptive optics in a single microscope.

By integrating multiple imaging modalities into one system, MOSAIC enables researchers to study biological processes across scales, from molecules to whole organisms.

At Thorlabs, our goal is to help researchers turn ambitious ideas into discovery, and we are proud to see our technologies contributing to innovations that expand the boundaries of biological imaging.

Congratulations to the authors on this remarkable achievement.

Read the paper:

MOSAIC is a versatile multimodal microscope that allows seamless transition between various light-sheet, two-photon, label-free and super-resolution modalities. It is demonstrated in various systems ranging from cell culture to mice.

08/24/2026

💡 Travel "light" and don't let the dog eat your homework this school year!

Wishing students, educators, and lifelong learners a year filled with discovery, curiosity, and growth. If your journey includes quantum, photonics, optics, or engineering, we’d love to be part of it. Follow our page for resources, insights, and inspiration.

08/21/2026

📢 Need a stable, long-term career with great benefits?

Thorlabs is hiring CNC Machinists in Newton, NJ and offering full benefits, a sign-on bonus, and opportunities for growth in our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.

If you are an experienced CNC Machinist, we'd love to connect. We're looking for skilled professionals who want to make an impact, continue developing their expertise, and grow with a company that's investing in the future.

And if you're exploring career options in today's uncertain economy, CNC machining is a field worth learning more about. Skilled machinists remain in demand, and we anticipate continued hiring and growth in this area for years to come.

At Thorlabs, experience isn't just appreciated. It's how we help build the future of our workforce.

Ready to learn more or apply? Check the link in the comments.

08/20/2026

Advancing quantum education requires hands-on learning, the right tools, and collaboration. Our recent 3-day ALPhA Advanced Laboratory Physics Association Immersion training on the Thorlabs Quantum EDU Optics Kit brought professors from different universities together to share ideas, experiments, and best practices. 🚀

Lead mentor Brandon Mitchell from West Chester University of PA has used the Thorlabs Quantum EDU Optics Kit for the past three years with both his students and in outreach programs throughout the Philadelphia area. Thanks to Eric Kurywczak of Thorlabs, for providing support and serving as teaching assistant. Our professor participants are now bringing practical insights back to their labs and classrooms. 🔬

Thank you to our participants: Ram Yadav, SC State University; Daniela Topasna, Virginia Military Institute; Pawan Tyagi, University of the District of Columbia; Amrit Gautam, The University of Kansas.

08/18/2026

We are so excited for our interns as they begin their next chapters!
We will miss the enthusiasm, expertise, and fresh perspectives they brought to their work here at Thorlabs this summer. Thank you for everything you did to support engineering projects, update internal systems, organize materials, and share new ideas.
🌟 Wishing you all the best on your journeys ahead! Perhaps your careers will intersect with Thorlabs again in the future. We can't wait to see all that you accomplish! 👏

08/11/2026

Throwback to the time we used a Lab Snacks box to view the eclipse! On August 12, parts of Europe will get to experience another solar eclipse. If you don’t have access to a pair of solar eclipse viewing glasses, a rudimentary pinhole eclipse viewer can be made using common household materials:
- A cardboard box
- A white piece of paper
- A pair of scissors
- Tape
- A piece of foil
- A nail

The hole in the foil serves as a pinhole camera, but will be viewed on a “screen” rather than recorded onto film. The white piece of paper serves for improved contrast when viewing in the box.

While a nail was used for this video, any small, sharp, and pointed object like a sharpened pencil or threading needle would work. A smaller pinhole makes for a less bright, but sharper image. If you think the hole you made is too big, the foil is easily interchangeable to try it again!

08/06/2026

The Thorlabs Mobile Lab Experience has been all over New Jersey this month! Thank you to our friends at Princeton University for hosting us outside of the impressive Princeton Stadium.
We love bringing this lab on wheels to universities across the US to inspire a love of photonics and optics. Want us to visit your college? Drop us a comment to request a visit! 🔬

08/04/2026

We love to inspire and support educators teaching the next generation of scientists and engineers! 🚀
The Thorlabs Mobile Photonics Lab recently visited NJIT. What a great opportunity to light up excitement for photonics in students of all ages from high school and up! And bonus: we met with visitors from a physics lab open house at Rutgers University—Newark!

Thank you for welcoming us back, NJIT!

07/29/2026

😖 If it works, it works.