Ultrafast camera films 3-D movies at 100 billion frames per second
Credit: Caltech In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech's Lihong Wang has developed technology that can ...
Tag: Optics
Turning excess noise into signal
Credit: by Aaron M. Kho, Tingwei Zhang, Jun Zhu, Conrad W. Merkle, Vivek J. Srinivasan During the early 1800s, the ...
What laser color do you like?
Microchip devices produce a wide range of huesCredit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and ...
An innovative method to tune lasers toward infrared wavelengths
Researchers at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have discovered a cost-effective way to tune the spectrum of a ...
New discovery opens for breakthrough in laser technology
Aarhus University has received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to investigate nonlinear effects in semiconductor lasers -- ...
New editor-in-chief appointed for SPIE journal Optical Engineering
Adam Wax will lead the SPIE journal beginning in January 2021Credit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- On 1 January 2021, ...
Penn engineers create helical topological exciton-polaritons
This new type of quasiparticles could have applications in quantum computingCredit: University of Pennsylvania Our understanding of quantum physics has ...
Well-formed disorder for versatile light technologies
Credit: ETH Zurich / Jolanda Mueller From microscopes to data transfer via optical fibres all the way to modern quantum ...
Quantum physics: Physicists successfully carry out controlled transport of stored light
Patrick Windpassinger and his team demonstrate how light stored in a cloud of ultra-cold atoms can be transported by means ...
Ed Fry selected as The Oceanography Society’s 2020 Jerlov Award recipient
For significant advances in knowledge of how light interacts with the oceanCredit: Texas A&M University Dr. Edward S. Fry, distinguished ...
Surface waves can help nanostructured devices keep their cool
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan -- The continuing progress in miniaturization of silicon microelectronic ...
MHz, multi-beams coherent XUV source by intracavity high-order harmonic generation
Credit: by Natsuki Kanda, Tomohiro Imahoko, Koji Yoshida, Akihiro Tanabashi, A. Amani Eilanlou, Yasuo Nabekawa, Tetsumi Sumiyoshi, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, and ...
Turning a hot spot into a cold spot: Fano-shaped local-field responses probed by a quantum dot
Credit: by Juan Xia, Jianwei Tang, Fanglin Bao, Yongcheng Sun, Maodong Fang, Guanjun Cao, Julian Evans, and Sailing He Optical ...
Polarimetric parity-time-symmetric photonic system
Credit: by Lingzhi Li, Yuan Cao, Yanyan Zhi, Jiejun Zhang1, Yuting Zou, Xinhuan Feng, Bai-Ou Guan and Jianping Yao Parity-time-symmetric ...
Graphene microbubbles make perfect lenses
New method generates precisely controlled graphene microbubbles with perfectly spherical curvature for lensesCredit: H. Lin et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.055001. Tiny ...
Six-Year MiSight contact lens study: 23% of eyes showed no additional myopia progression
Powerful findings from CooperVision study shared at American Academy of Optometry Annual MeetingCredit: CooperVision CooperVision is reporting the latest findings ...
New editor-in-chief appointed for SPIE journal Neurophotonics
Anna Devor will take on her new role beginning in January 2021Credit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- On 1 January, ...
Stress-free gel
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers in the Institute of Industrial Science at ...
Terahertz zaps alter gene activity in stem cells
A new apparatus improves how we study the effects of aiming high-field terahertz radiation at cells, with implications for regenerative ...
INRS researchers design the world’s fastest UV camera
An international team of researchers succeeded in recording photons in the ultraviolet range in real timeCredit: Jinyang Liang: Single?Shot Ultraviolet ...