The huge electro-optic coefficient of the LC allows voltage tuning of the index of the prisms and hence the refraction a…

Tuning up Rydberg atoms for quantum information applications

Rydberg atoms, atoms whose outermost electrons are highly excited but not ionized, might be just the thing for processin…

Caltech engineers have created flat microlenses with performance on a par with conventional, curved lenses. These lenses…

Rice University experts demonstrate new method for optomechanical tuning

In a study that could open doors for new applications of photonics from molecular sensing to wireless communications, Ri…

“Whispering gallery” effect confines electrons, could provide basis for new electron-optics devices.

The researchers say the accomplishment could provide a basic building block for new kinds of electronic lenses, as well…

Researchers at Aalto University have discovered a novel way of combining plasmonic and magneto-optical effects.

Researchers experimentally demonstrated that patterning of magnetic materials into arrays of nanoscale dots can lead to…

The researchers experimentally and theoretically show that significantly better control is obtained using high thermal c…

Researchers create optically active quantum dots in 2D semiconductor for the first time; may have applications for integrated photonics

Researchers create optically active quantum dots in 2D semiconductor for the first time; may have applications for integ…

Backed by updgraded laser damage testing and stringent quality control protocols

Products include upgraded lenses, beamsplitters, polarizing components, super flat mirrors, and high

Two-photon fluorescence microscopy has received considerable attention as an advanced optical technique, especially in t…

A new solid-state device can demonstrate the physical principles of invisibility cloaks without special equipment or magic spells

A group of researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Karlsruhe, Germany, has developed a portable invis…

Researchers at Aalto University and Amherst College, USA, have observed a point-like monopole in a quantum field itself for the first time.

The researchers performed an experiment in which they manipulated a gas of rubidium atoms prepared in a nonmagnetic stat…

Researchers from Heidelberg and Vienna investigate statistical description of quantum systems

A cloud of quantum particles can have several temperatures at once, as demonstrated in experiments conducted in a joint…

These sensors, which measure temperature using light, are called photonic thermometers, and compared to traditional ther…

Cambridge UK optical processing business Optalysys Ltd, has announced that they have successfully developed a demonstrab…

Award-winning developments in photonic analysis, neutron detection and DPSS-based laser systems for high-energy scientific applications

The CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards recognize outstanding companies that have made major contributions to advan…

Lenses offer high damage thresholds

The coatings have been optimized for the most popular

Researchers at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air ca…

The system works by using white light that travels through a fiber and is reflected by two

Caltech chemists have created a device that generates and detects terahertz waves over a wide spectral range with extrem…