The Digital Radius Slides provide extremely accurate axial positioning for measuring the radius of curvature of concave…

Researchers from the FOM Institute AMOLF and the University of Pennsylvania have fabricated a material which gives visible light a nearly infinite wavelength.

The new metamaterial is made by stacking silver and silicon nitride nanolayers. It may find applications in novel optica…

New techniques magnify images without requiring bulky zoom lenses

Researchers have developed a holographic projection system that not only has a lensless zoom function, but is also cheap…

The Commander™ triple spectrometer for Raman spectroscopy is now for a wider wavelength range.

This triple spectrometer for Raman works in the 185 to 2200 nanometer region with a selection of diffraction gratings

The novel material graphene and its technological applications are studied at the Vienna University of Technology. Now scientists have succeeded in combining graphene light detectors with semiconductor chips.

Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have now managed to combine a graphene photodetector with a standard s…

A breakthrough in photonics that will help create extremely compact optical chips, a hair's width in size and delivering…

Feature high damage thresholds and excellent extinction ratios

Ultrafast Thin Film Polarizers provide high damage thresholds, which is ideal for use with high power lasers - including…

The new device offers 100 percent internal quantum efficiency (QE) and unparalleled stability.

A group of physicists from Canada have been growing their own icicles in a lab in the hope of solving a mystery that has…

Light might be able to play a bigger, more versatile role in the future of quantum computing, according to new research…

Other in-stock substrates include BK-7, Corning 0211, Corning Eagle 2000 XG

A group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created the optical equivalent of a tunin…

Simulating solid state properties with precisely controlled quantum systems is an important goal of the Quantum Many-Bod…

Novel design for microfluidic sensor uses streams of unconfined water for a simpler and cheaper way to test for dangerous chemicals and bacteria

Researchers in Italy have developed a pollutant detector that uses a narrow stream of water unconfined by tubes or pipes…

New production method broadens the perspectives for an improved use of the "magic material" - many different forms are possible

New production method broadens the perspectives for an improved use of the magic material - many different forms are pos…

THIN AS 0.4 MM AND < 25 MM DIA.

Custom manufactured low order sapphire waveplates that provide superior wear- and chemical-resistance while changing the…

Technology could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science, medicine

In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to…

LZH is developing production processes for multilayer circuit boards based on thin glass with 145 micron thicknesses. Th…

Scientists find a potential new use for old music CDs: coating disks in photocatalytic compounds and spinning them to clean water

Everyone has CDs laying around their car, office or home. Researchers from Taiwan have decided to put them to good use…

CODE V version 10.6 is now generally available

The release provides new charting capabilities and analysis improvements that enable faster, more flexible optical desig…