The new study, led by assistant professor of applied physics and physics Peter Rakich, describes how such long-lived sou…

New holographic data storage medium could enable wearable technology that captures and stores detailed 3-D images

In the journal Optical Materials Express, the researchers detail their fabrication of the new films and demonstrate the…

High-speed light emitters integrated on silicon chips can enable novel architectures for silicon-based optoelectronics.…

NEW TEST MATCHES THEORY AND OFFERS THE BEST EVIDENCE YET FOR THE ODDBALL PARTICLES.

In the new work, researchers measured the electrical current passing through an ultra-thin semiconductor connected to a…

The consortium, coordinated by Osram Opto Semiconductors, is researching ways to miniaturize optical components

The defined objective of the consortium is to develop particularly compact multifunctional optical components. The backg…

Innovative Design Ensures Precision λ/10 Wavefront Error

The Edmund Optics designed and manufactured TECHSPEC® Monolithic Reflective Beam Expanders feature an all-reflective des…

Compared to the existing curved light - Airy beams, which are initialised by a bulky laser paired with an expensive spat…

Leiden physicists have created a light source that emits individual particles in an identical state through optical fibe…

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are conducting fundamental physics research that…

In a paper appearing this week in APL Photonics, from AIP Publishing, researchers from the University of California, San…

he precision measurement of photons, the smallest energy quanta of mechanics, has always been the main constraint to the…

The breakthrough means masers - the microwave version of lasers - could now be used more widely in a range of applicatio…

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Founded in 2000, CoAdna is a global leader in wavelength selective switches based on its patented LightFlow™ liquid crys…

PTB and ASML are putting a new test beamline into operation at BESSY

The optical system was designed to allow the irradiance to be adjusted at the samples according to the specifications of…

NIST and its partners have developed a novel observing system that combines the world’s first “in-the-field” dual-freque…

Scientists have used gold nanomaterials to demonstrate a next-generation optical disk with up to 10TB capacity - a stora…

The CWS also features high in-band transmission efficiency and excellent out of band extinction, making these devices id…

These results therefore represent an important step forward in understanding the light-induced electron dynamics in a se…

Using their theory, the researchers have shown how a single-photon emitting diode based on silicon carbide can be improv…

In laser facilities in the UK, Imperial physicists are testing an 84-year-old theory which was once thought impossible t…