A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity and light along the same tiny wire, a finding that coul…

From applications in the solar market to the outdoor lighting market, all becomes possible with the new outdoor finishing for 3D printed optics from Luxexcel.

From applications in the solar market to the outdoor lighting market, all becomes possible with the new outdoor finishin…

Controllable photon-photon interactions to enable unique applications

Scientists have known for over half a century that light fields can interact inside nonlinear optical media, but the non…

LMU/MPQ scientists succeed in revealing a highly symmetric exchange of spins between ytterbium atoms in different electronic orbital states

A relatively recent approach to understand complex materials is to simulate those systems by mimicking the crystalline s…

OSL reflective beam expanders are aspheric mirror-based devices offering either beam expansion or reduction capabilities…

Scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have succeeded in creating a steady stream of photons emitted one at a time and i…

A team of researchers have developed a new sensor that can detect and count nanoparticles, at sizes as small as 10 nanom…

Scientists have developed what they believe is the thinnest-possible semiconductor, a new class of nanoscale materials m…

Holograms made of tiny particles of silver could double the amount of information that can be stored in digital optical…

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, working in collaboration with the Naval Research Labo…

A form of quantum weirdness is a key ingredient for building quantum computers according to new research from a team at…

Scientists from TU Delft's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience have demonstrated that they can detect extremely small changes…

CIOE was established in 1999 and has since become the world’s largest show of its kind. The event takes place September…

Diffraction-limited focusing performance

TECHSPEC Acylinder Lenses are designed to reduce spherical aberration along the focusing axis and are an excellent choic…

SLAC Experiment Reveals Mysterious Order in Liquid Helium

When chilled to extremes, liquid helium behaves according to the rules of quantum mechanics that apply to matter at the…

Vibrational motion of a single molecule measured in real time

For the first time, chemists have succeeded in measuring vibrational motion of a single molecule with a femtosecond time…

Electrical engineers design nano-optical cables that could replace copper wiring on computer chips.

Electrical engineers design nano-optical cables that could replace copper wiring on computer chips

Kansas State University physicists and computer scientists are involved in a collaborative project to understand a long-…

Spectral absorbance of 99.99%

The foil is used to eliminate light reflectance in applications where the direct coating of parts is not practical, incl…

Optotune presents a new laser processing lens with optical feedback. While compactness, fast response and long life cycl…