Bending light beams to your whim sounds like a job for a wizard or an a complex array of bulky mirrors, lenses and prism…

Berkeley Lab Researchers Discover a Tiny Twist in Bilayer Graphene That May Solve a Mystery

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discove…

NIST physicists report in the Aug. 22 issue of Science Express that the ytterbium clocks' tick is more stable than any o…

Nanostructured device controls the intensity, phase, and polarization of light for wide applications in optics

This is the first time a single, simple device has been designed to control these three major properties of light at onc…

“One tool for all surfaces, without compromise.”™

The Nexview profiler is optimized for noncontact surface metrology of an extensive variety of samples and surfaces from…

Coated Littrow prisms feature an anti-reflective coating on the surface opposite the 60-degree angle to provide a consta…

Assis­tant pro­fessor Yongmin Liu and col­lab­o­ra­tors at Penn State and MIT have devel­oped the world’s first recon­fi…

Hybrid technology makes possible highly reliable transmission of photonic qubits

By means of the quantum-mechanical entanglement of spatially separated light fields, researchers in Tokyo and Mainz have…

A team of researchers from the University of Central Florida and the National University of Singapore have shown that it…

Researchers at the University of Rochester have measured for the first time light emitted by photoluminescence from a na…

New technique could find uses in highly sensitive interferometers and other measuring devices

The new approach uses a liquid crystal matrix, which uses little power, does not require an external electrical field an…

TRUMPF’s new RFID lens increases the measurement accuracy of the LensLine sensor system, which now offers enhanced condition monitoring functions and is even more operator-friendly than before.

Greater accuracy, process reliability and user-friendliness – TRUMPF has enhanced its LensLine sensor system by combinin…

Field-replaceable slits add flexibility to Ocean Optics spectrometers

Precision laser-cut slit and aperture assemblies from Ocean Optics add flexibility to the company’s QE65 Pro, Jaz, and T…

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, together with colleagues in the US and Australia, have developed a method to co…

Their method gives new insight into light-matter coupling at the nanoscale and allows precise measurement of enhanced op…

A team of researchers developed a fluorescent caffeine detector and a detection kit that lights up like a traffic light…

There may be more kinds of stuff than we thought. A team of researchers has reported possible evidence for a new categor…

Researchers at JILA have for the first time used an atomic clock as a quantum simulator, mimicking the behavior of a dif…

The group has engineered a miniature silicon system that produces a type of light that is quieter at certain frequencies…

Nanotechnique creates image 30 microns in width

Researchers have painted the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width – or one-third the width…