The researchers’ paper, presenting a description of the method which enables complex optical devices to be designed on g…

With the addition of holographic diffusers or frosted glasses to wavefront modulators, KAIST researchers offer a simple and practical solution to significantly enhance the performance of 3D dynamic holographic displays by 2,600 times.

To create a 3D hologram that can be viewed without special equipment such as 3D glasses, the wavefront of light must be…

First demonstration of a metal-free metamaterial that can absorb electromagnetic energy

Efficiently absorbing energy from electromagnetic waves is an important property for many applications. For example, the…

Surprising direction-dependent effects emerge when light is guided in microscopic structures. This discovery shows promise for both classical and quantum information processing

Here, the spin of the light points along the axis of the rotor and is therefore oriented perpendicular to the propagatio…

Users now have available a highly capable and affordable digital dual-phase lock-in and chopper combination that

International technology group’s specialists and developers to detail new optical materials, research in technical presentations and an optical designer workshop

SCHOTT will display and demo its new IR broadband material IRG 27, which enables designers to realize new IR optical sys…

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have now developed the first building blocks needed to construct complex quant…

New Coating Technology Leads to Cost-effective Triple Mirrors

The new method not only results in higher specifications, but it also has the additional advantage of a shorter duration…

The proposal devised by the UPV and NUP-UPNA researchers taking a different approach based on a technique known as trans…

ANU physicists have invented a tiny device that creates the highest quality holographic images ever achieved, opening th…

Nanoscribe enables 3D Printing of Micro-Optics

The additive manufacturing workflow also drastically shortens the design-iteration phase and ideas can be turned into fu…

The transformative VoiceMatch-in-Sensor™ technology converts speaker’s facial skin vibrations into unique, noise-free voiceprint, with both the biometric acquisition and template matching all performed inside the optical sensor solution

The VocalZoom optical HMC sensor converts this data into a voiceprint associated only with the person who was actually s…

In this work, the researchers have observed spontaneous symmetry breaking in an optical whispering gallery microcavity.…

In this experiment, researchers inject a combination of light shapes into a nanofiber. The light passes down a thinning…

The wavefront correction technology is available for several SLM-100 models in optional visible wavelength. It was diffi…

A strong short light pulse can record data on a magnetic layer of yttrium iron garnet doped with Co-ions. This was disco…

The team is currently working on designs for positioning drives for miniaturized optical zoom lens systems

These semiconductors exhibit remarkably strong interaction with light and therefore have great potential for application…

The advance, reported January 16 in Nature Photonics, could speed the use of perovskite technologies in commercial appli…

Laser-driving of semimetals allows creating novel quasiparticle states within condensed matter systems and switching between different states on ultrafast time scales

It has now been found, however, that by irradiating a material with a laser, it is also possible to combine a quasiparti…