AOC successfully coats 13 large optical elements for national telescope project.

The largest of the elements was over 27 inches in diameter and weighed over 300 pounds. The anti-reflective and highly…

ProMetric I2, 2MP model optimized for high speed production lines

Radiant Zemax’s imaging colorimeters are specialized CCD-based camera systems that replicate human spatial perception of…

Rice University system allows high-magnetic-field experiments on a tabletop

The device dubbed RAMBO – short for Rice Advanced Magnet with Broadband Optics – will allow researchers who visit the un…

The new photodiode is operational from 1nm to 1000 nm, with peak photon responsivity at 0.27A/W at 1 nm and 0.33 A/W at…

Laser doping method could enable new infrared imaging systems.

Researchers have tried a variety of methods to develop detectors that are responsive to a broad range of infrared light…

The quantum computer using the special correlation among quanta, called quantum entanglement, has gotten much attention…

By making digital versions of real-world science experiments available to anyone on the Internet, Stanford Professor Lambertus Hesselink has developed a new approach to integrating laboratory experience with massive online science courses.

By making digital versions of real-world science experiments available to anyone on the Internet, Stanford Professor Lam…

New approach to use of 2-D carbon material opens up unexpected properties, could unleash new uses.

New approach to use of 2-D carbon material opens up unexpected properties, could unleash new uses.

A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another ad…

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have proposed the first design of a cloaking device that uses an extern…

Students may soon be able to reach out and touch some of the theoretical concepts they are taught in their physics class…

Physicists from FOM Institute AMOLF have for the first time simultaneously measured the electrical and magnetic fields o…

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) and the firm Luz WaveLabs are developing an innovative Terahe…

The new micro-spectrometer offers measurement in the visible wavelength range, and can be used for applications such as…

Custom fabricated sapphire domes that feature a superior combination of optical and mechanical properties for protecting…

Researchers have long thought that biological molecules and synthetic nanocrystals were similar only in size. Now, Unive…

Norman Sanford and colleagues from the Optoelectronic Manufacturing Group, with collaborators at the Colorado School of…

Two Rice University studies detail aluminum’s valuable plasmonic properties

Humble aluminum’s plasmonic properties may make it far more valuable than gold and silver for certain applications, acco…

Designed using a lightweight, thin silicon substrate

High Contrast IR Wire Grid Polarizers are constructed by applying a thin layer of aluminum MicroWires to a glass window

International team of scientists develops new feedback method for optimizing the laser pulse shapes used in the control of chemical reactions.

International team of scientists develops new feedback method for optimizing the laser pulse shapes used in the control…