Tailor-made corrective glasses permit unparalleled concentration of X-ray beam

An international team of scientists has tailored special X-ray glasses to concentrate the beam of an X-ray laser stronge…

The researchers have demonstrated a simple magnetless optical and electrical magnetic memory working at ambient conditio…

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have demonstrated an optical metamaterial whose chiroptical properties in th…

The research team first deposited conductive and photosensitive materials on the polymer material with heat and pressure…

expands HOLOSCOPE™ product line from medical imaging to professional and consumer Augmented Reality markets.

RealView Imaging, one of the earliest players in the field of interactive holography, has already demonstrated the feasi…

Radiative heat transfer makes its debut from a negligible to a dominant effect in graphene.

Electronic and optical processes in nanoscale devices produce large concentration of heat, which can limit their perform…

Rice University researchers simulate two-dimensional hybrids for optoelectronics

The Rice-led study was the first to take a theoretical approach to defining the electronic and optical properties of one…

Such materials could be used to make lenses, cameras and microscopes with better performance, or possibly even

The researchers’ breakthrough lies in the ability to overcome reciprocity, a fundamental principle governing many physic…

The researchers have now proposed and experimentally demonstrated an optical method to control photonic crystal nanoreso…

Instead of a large metal antenna for radio waves, they use a small rod to catch visible light waves. This gold nanorod—4…

The performance of micromachines—used as moving components in small devices such as acceleration sensors and gyroscopes—…

New technology creates color 3-D images that don't require special viewing devices

Researchers have developed a completely new type of display that creates 3D images by using a laser to form tiny bubbles…

A research group from Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with French colleagues at CNRS Grenoble, has developed a uni…

StingRay was founded in 2004 and has established itself as a market leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of world…

Twisted photonic crystal fibres guide light by a mechanism similar to the bending of light rays by large celestial masses

Being able to control the optical properties of materials is useful in a wide variety of applications. The photonic crys…

LensMechanix 3.0 is the latest version of our SOLIDWORKS add-in for optomechanical development. This release includes ne…

In-plane nano-gap antenna-arrays with giant enhancement in NanoLetters.

The novel fabrication approach drastically improves the optical performance of plasmonic nano-antennas to yield giant fl…

Study: Silicon can reproduce physical phenomena exploited by high-end telecommunications devices.

In the latest issue of Nature Photonics, MIT researchers present a practical way to introduce second-order nonlinearitie…

Technique could help increase resolution of microscopes and telescopes

University of Toronto researchers have demonstrated a way to increase the resolution of microscopes and telescopes beyon…