Sandia team develops optical diagnostic that helps improve fuel economy while reducing emissions

A new optical device at Sandia National Laboratories that helps researchers image pollutants in combusting fuel sprays m…

As an antireflective coating, this material could have applications in sensors and cameras, where capturing unwanted lig…

A team of researchers has now succeeded in doing what was thought to be impossible and developed a light-processing comp…

Metasurface generates new states of light for fundamental research and applications

The new metasurface connects two aspects of light, known as orbital angular momentum and circular polarization

Extremely short electron bunches are key to many new applications including ultrafast electron microscopy and table-top free-electron lasers.

A team of physicists has now shown how electrons can be accelerated in an extreme and well-controlled way with laser lig…

Experiment by Freiburg physicists published in science journal

An extremely bright laser is used to trap the ion in its beam without compelling additional movement. A few years ago it…

Macquarie University researchers have made a single tiny diamond shine brightly at room temperature, a behaviour known a…

Researchers in Singapore use a super-resolution imaging technique to strengthen photon interaction with atoms

It's not easy to bounce a single particle of light off a single atom that is less than a billionth of a metre wide. Howe…

Industry leader Jenoptik Optical Systems’ Microoptics business unit in Huntsville, AL is pleased to announce the offering of standard silicon optics solutions.

These lenses will be available in volumes as low as 100 to provide benchmark testing, and up to hundreds of thousands fo…

New technology from IBM Research could be used to create an inexpensive sensor network that autonomously monitors for natural gas leaks

The spectrometer is based on silicon photonics technology, which means it is an optical device made of silicon, the mate…

In a significant breakthrough, scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, have devised a high powe…

Quantum physicists in Oriol Romero-Isart’s research group in Innsbruck show in two current publications that, despite Ea…

Researchers of Delft University published their research today in Nature Partner Journal Quantum Information, showing a…

The researchers examined the effects on both the phase and intensity of OAM carrying light over a real link in an urban…

Placing nanodisks in groups can change their vibrational frequencies

Yi used two sets of laser beams to test the resonance of the groups. A pulse laser was used to strike the disks, which a…

The printing-based approach, jointly developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Hitachi Cambridge L…

Nine new models available

These versatile lenses consist of two optical components cemented together to form a doublet and provide a low-cost alte…

Ultrathin films of a semiconductor that emits and detects light can be stacked on top of silicon wafers.

In a paper published today in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, researchers describe a light emitter and detector that…

A Danish-American research team has shown that it is possible to produce Majorana particles in a new

For most everyday experiences, such as riding a bicycle, using a lift or catching a ball, classical (Newtonian) mechanics is perfectly accurate.

In their theory study, published in Physical Review X, high-energy physicist Professor Gert Aarts together with Dr Marku…