Taking advantage of the sensitive nature of randomly scattered light, Yale University researchers have developed an ultr…

Albert Einstein's assertion that there's an ultimate speed limit – the speed of light – has withstood countless tests ov…

A team of quantum physicists in Innsbruck led by Christian Roos and Cornelius Hempel have realised an extremely sensitiv…

Study finds behavior of the turbulent flow of superfluids is opposite that of ordinary fluids.

A superfluid moves like a completely frictionless liquid, seemingly able to propel itself without any hindrance from gra…

Prof. Jonathan Simon building 'particle decelerator' to crystallize photons

High school physics teaches that photons have no mass, but Jonathan Simon, the Neubauer Family assistant professor of ph…

Dartmouth physicists and colleagues home in on stable information storage for quantum computers.

New and proprietary features solve today's most difficult design challenges

Zemax 13 Release 2 delivers a powerful competitive advantage with industry-leading design, simulation and optimization c…

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of North Carolina have dem…

An international collaboration of scientists in Austria and the US demonstrate a novel “crystalline coating” technique f…

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a prototype for 3D+2D television that allows vie…

Northwestern researchers create state-of-the-art desktop nanofabrication tool

A new low-cost, high-resolution tool is primed to revolutionize how nanotechnology is produced from the desktop, accordi…

Optical design guide for mobile phone camera objective lens

Mobile phone camera objective optical design, is unique in its requirements for small packaging and cost effective. In t…

New band-pass filters (BPFs) have been produced to optimize detection of narrow spectral emission lines in the infrared…

OEM-Specific Designs Feature Aberration Correction, High SNR, Low Stray Light Performance

Application areas include color management, plant phenotyping, pathogen detection, semiconductor fabrication, process mo…

Researchers in Hong Kong have discovered how subtle differences in the tiny crystals of butterfly wings create stunningl…

Rice, Sandia team uses carbon nanotubes for polarized-light detection

Using carpets of aligned carbon nanotubes, researchers from Rice University and Sandia National Laboratories have create…

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have shown how…

C12733 is the first such power supply to be developed by Hamamatsu Photonics, and offers outstanding resistance to high…

Featuring ultra-high transmission and no measurable absorption in the water band.

The new mid-IR filters will enable the production of bandpass, multi-bandpass, and notch filters with Alluxa's character…

The San Jose, California-based manufacturer of advanced direct-write digital imaging technology for the printed circuit…