A new economical way to create compact lenses brings simplicity and scalability

Researchers fabricated and tested flat lenses called Fresnel zone plates, but did so for the first time using only commo…

Miniaturizing photon sources is one of the main challenges of photonic quantum computing. This miniaturized and programm…

The innovative platform leverages light to perform calculations at significantly higher speeds and with much greater eff…

The low-power switching capabilities of the nanocrystals align with the global effort to reduce the amount of energy con…

New co-packaged optics innovation could replace electrical interconnects in data centers to offer significant improvements in speed and energy efficiency for AI and other computing applications

IBM researchers have demonstrated a way to bring optics’ speed and capacity inside data centers. In a technical paper, I…

Solid-state optical cooling is a prominent example that leverages a very unique phenomenon called

In a new paper, scientists seeking better methods for controlling the quantum interactions between light and

This achievement enables a groundbreaking approach to the study of elements with

Typically, photons - light particles - pass through each other without interacting. However, this experiment

The work is important because it opens up new avenues of research for quantum physicists and

Researchers at the Technion Faculty of Physics have demonstrated controlled transfer of atoms using coherent tunneling between "optical tweezers"

The Technion researchers used a linear array of three optical tweezers in their experiment. By changing the

The new discovery could dramatically enhance technologies like lasers, sensor, and optical computing in the near future.

By using an array of tiny silicon spheres, they predict that the special conditions needed to amplify light that

The team used a special light tool developed by

Their findings have been published in the Light: Science and Applications on July 17, 2024.

Nonlinear optics, which explores the interaction between light and matter, can generate multiple wavelengths from a sing…

Based on the established OptiCentric® Bonding 5D alignment system, the new MultiAlign lens

The book is written especially for early-career designers who are involved in modern product development, where

The team used a partially coherent light source by harnessing a narrow portion of the spectrum of incoherent light produ…

Thinner than a human hair, the device amplifies and converts near infrared light into visible light with the potential for low power consumption and long battery life

The newly developed OLED device also converts near infrared light into visible light and amplifies it more than

Through the development of a standardized chip design with edge couplers available in the LIGENTEC PDK, Vanguard Automat…

Researchers slow exotic atom to make it easier to study and explore antimatter

In this case, a weak and finely tuned laser gently pushes against a