When and why it wins over lattice heating

For optoelectronic applications of a material, a thorough understanding of the processes that govern energy relaxation o…

With a combination of solid-state physics and quantum optics, ETH researchers observe new multiparticle states that so f…

Shorter Dead Times with COUNT® Modules

LASER COMPONENTS has reduced the dead time of the COUNT photon counters down to 42 ns

Yale engineers have developed a chip-scale device that uses the wave-particle duality of single photons to sense the pre…

High contrast over large angles of incidence

Wire Grid Polarizing Cube Beamsplitters are constructed using a wire grid polarizer cemented between two precision high…

The new method could improve the sensitivity, precision and ease of tests and calibrations of antennas, sensors, and bio…

Operating in the fuzzy area between classical and quantum light

In a new experiment, researchers perform an experiment using incoherent light, where the light is a jumble of waves. An…

This new class of thin metal materials, known as transition metal di-chalcogenides, has become an exciting complimentary…

Yale engineers have developed a hybrid system that strongly couples magnons—the smallest unit of measurement for a magne…

Gold nanoparticle SERS substrates amplify Raman effects

Using precisely controlled gold nanoparticles, Ocean Optics SERS substrates amplify very weak Raman signals by many orde…

The Exemplar® and Exemplar® LS miniature spectrometers are already used in numerous applications such as kinetic reactio…

Designed to convert linear polarization to radial or azimuthal polarization

Radial Polarization Converters produce radially polarized light, which is ideal for

A team of researchers, led by the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) has demonstrated a breakthrough technique that offers the first possibility of silicon detectors for telecommunications.

A team of researchers, led by the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) has demonstrated a breakthrough technique that o…

Trying on clothes when a shop is closed could become a reality thanks to new research that uses semi-transparent mirrors…

Nanoparticles can emit light into ultra-thin glass fibres. Physicists at the Vienna University of Technology have now managed to select the direction of the light using an unusual kind of coupling between spin and the direction of propagation.

Nanoparticles can emit light into ultra-thin glass fibres. Physicists at the Vienna University of Technology have now ma…

In the experiment, helium atoms were ionized by the absorption of a single ultra-violet photon. This was possible becaus…

In optics, resonant cavities are widely used for their ability to store light in a limited space for a particular durati…

New low-power method opens the door for easily fabricating future quantum communication and computing devices

One of the properties of light exploited within quantum optics is photon polarization, which is essentially the directio…

As a vertically integrated provider of high precision optical assemblies, objectives, infrared optics and components, wi…

Revolutionary additive way for making optical components ready to take on injection molding.

With these new capabilities, the LUXeXceL process is ready to compete with injection molding for the production of small…