The primary mirror, engineered and built by AOA Xinetics, a Northrop Grumman Corporation company, was

Researchers from FOM and the University of Twente now made a major step towards high-resolution metal printing. They use…

This radically new and patent pending solution to laser attenuation has some remarkable features and benefits compared t…

In this technique the investigated material is illuminated by two very short pulses of infrared light

The PicoXea is the first all-in-one picosecond resolution Time Correlated Single Photon Counting analyzer, which fully i…

Photonic platform could provide ‘optical signatures’ for molecular electronics

Researchers at Rice University have discovered a new way to make ultrasensitive conductivity measurements at optical fre…

UBC launches online course for tech workers and enthusiasts

A UBC electrical and computer engineering professor will be the first to teach a new online lab course that sees student…

These beam shaping lenses are used to rotate the beams emitted by the individual laser bars by

In addition to classical lens design features, OSLO is used to simulate and analyze the performance of optical systems b…

This new technology allows high quality bonding of optical components with the same composition without changing the ind…

Stanford engineers highlight the limitation of a popular technique for one-way optical data transmission on computer chips.

Optics, a form of data transmission that utilizes beams of light, has the promise to outperform the beams of electrons t…

Researchers from Lehigh University, Japan and Canada have advanced a step closer to the dream of all-optical data transm…

Scientists have defined the smallest, most accurate thermometer allowed by the laws of physics — one that could detect t…

Reflection of light off glass surfaces is a problem occurring in everyday life, and hinders the performance of solar pan…

In tuning friction to the point where it disappears, technique could boost development of nanomachines.

The optical lattice was generated using two laser beams traveling in opposite directions, whose fields add up to form a…

Novel self-cleaning, high temperature and corrosion resistant optical windows developed at DTU Nanotech enable the devel…

The world's smallest spirals are nearly impossible to counterfeit

When these spirals are shrunk to sizes smaller than the wavelength of visible light, they develop unusual optical proper…

RELEASE OF ZEGAGE™ PLUS OPTICAL PROFILER ADDS MORE SPEED AND PRECISION TO ZEGAGE PRODUCT LINE

The system provides the same ease of use, vibration robustness and small footprint as the ZeGage profiler but with a hig…

Tabletop setup provides more nuanced picture of heat production in microelectronics.

In their experiments, Chen and his colleagues used microfabrication to vary the size of the aluminum dots, and measured…

DESY team produces innovative high-power X-ray lens

A team led by DESY scientists has designed, fabricated and successfully tested a novel X-ray lens that produces sharper…