SearchLight™ is a free, online spectral plotting and analysis tool that allows fluorescence microscope users and optical…

University of Sydney researchers are turning optical data into readable soundwaves

Researchers at the University of Sydney have dramatically slowed digital information carried as light waves by transferr…

The rise of big data and advances in information technology has serious implications for our ability to deliver sufficient bandwidth to meet the growing demand.

The researchers have used digital holograms written to a small liquid crystal display and showed that it is possible to…

At UC Santa Cruz, an electrical engineer has teamed up with astronomers to improve telescope mirrors using thin-film technology from the electronics industry

Existing telescopes could substantially increase their efficiency by recoating their mirrors with silver instead of alum…

A new optomechanical nanosensor detects torsional frequencies with extreme sensitivity and offers new possibilities for on-chip detection and signal processing

As electronic devices get smaller, their ability to provide precise, chip-based sensing of dynamic physical properties s…

Unusual fluorescent materials could be used for rapid light-based communications systems.

In order for these materials to be useful in devices such as photonic chips — which are like semiconductor chips but car…

Using ultrafast flashes of laser and x-ray radiation, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching…

Building block solution offers improvements in performance, reliability, size and weight

Leveraging API's expertise in integration and a heritage in optoelectronics, the optical core features a building block…

The distance between the nanoparticles determines whether the layer permits or reflects different wavelengths of light.…

QLM are developing a quantum-inspired laser radar, capable of detecting minute methane leaks and designed to be mounted…

A new cloaking technology has been developed at TU Wien: a special kind of material is irradiated from above in such a way that another beam of light can pass completely uninhibited.

How do we make an object invisible? Researchers have now developed a new idea for a cloaking technology. A completely op…

A study by ICFO and Bristol Univ. propose a new benchmark.

Quantum teleportation is a key ingredient in Quantum Information Science. It is one of the most striking demonstrations…

Scientists at ANU have found a new way to store quantum data long enough to share the information around a next-generati…

Latest Release Offers Enhanced MTF Optimization and Visualization of Compact Optical Devices

Optical designers can now directly access through-focus MTF during lens system optimization, which facilitates fast, acc…

The scientists have successfully put a 10-year-old theoretical prediction into practice. With their paper, published rec…

Smallest-yet optical quantum memory device is a storage medium for optical quantum networks with the potential to be scaled up for commercial use

For the first time, an international team led by engineers at Caltech has developed a computer chip with nanoscale optic…

Their pathbreaking results facilitate the highly-efficient characterisation of the chemical, optical and structural prop…

The presented modulator exhibits a phase-modulation efficiency of 0.047 Vcm and low optical attenuation of 0.23 dB at

These results in the present study show novel features of liquid crystals as structural and optical materials, and the t…

Physicists from the University of Basel have developed a memory that can store photons. These quantum particles travel a…