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…

Optical sensing of nanoscale objects with ultrahigh sensitivity is highly desirable for applications in various fields,…

Luceda Photonics will use this financing to start commercialization of its photonics design software and to continue to…

Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology can now for the first time remotely control a miniature light source…

In order to both cloak an object and leave the background undisturbed, the researchers determined the lens type and powe…

A photonic diode using a nitride semiconductor rod can increase the possibility of developing all-optical integrated cir…

The window is the entrance window for the Binospec spectrograph, to be placed in operation at the MMT Observatory in 201…

Discovery is another step toward faster and more energy-efficient optical devices for computation and communication

University of Minnesota electrical engineering researchers have developed a unique nanoscale device that for the first t…