Experiments show that electric discharges follow certain laser beams.

Experimental figures show how different shaped lasers give discharges distinct properties and trajectories. By combining…

Data glasses tend to be chunky, unstylish objects, so it’s no wonder they haven’t caught on among general consumers. Fra…

Physicists at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have validated a novel laser-driven means of gen…

ICFO and Cambridge University Press announce the release of the new book The Wonders of Light

ICFO and Cambridge University Press announce the launch of The Wonders of Light, a book that dives into the realm of pho…

Carbon atoms in graphene sheets are arranged in a regularly repeating honeycomb-like lattice—a two-dimensional crystal.…

The results are important in the search for new quantum states and possible use in future electronics applications.

Aalto University researchers have succeeded to predict, in theory, that superconducting surfaces can become topological…

A glass lattice that traps light in such a way that it exhibits ‘infinite mass’ has been devised by a group of physicist…

The research team was able to demonstrate backward phase-matching by exploiting two distinct modes in a nonlinear plasmo…

Alluxa produces its optical coatings and filters in Santa Rosa, California. Alluxa’s product lines include the Ultra Ser…

Rayleigh scattering reveals light propagation in optical nanfibers

JQI researchers in collaboration with scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new technique for v…

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…