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Integration of Optical Sensing into Orthopedic Surgical Devices

Knees and hips wear out. Backs and necks become unstable. Fortunately, orthopedic surgeons specialize in musculoskeletal repair. And surgeries that formerly required open exposure are now accomplished with minimally invasive techniques. Surgical risks are reduced, as are postoperative pain and recovery time.

7 Jan 2022

OLED Operated by 1.5-V Battery Produces Bright Emission Equivalent to a Typical Display

Various properties of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have been optimized, including current to photon conversion efficiency. An external quantum efficiency exceeding 20%, with internal quantum efficiency of 100%, has been achieved owing to the development of thermally activated delayed fluorescent and phosphorescent materials that manage the spin of excited states.

7 Jan 2022

Radiant Demonstrates Solutions for Measuring Visual Experiences in XR Headsets at Photonics West Exhibition

Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of test and measurement solutions for light sources and displays, announces that it will demonstrate its full line of test and measurement solutions for ensuring the visual quality of XR (augmented, virtual, and mixed reality) displays at the upcoming Photonics West Exhibition.

From Radiant Vision Systems 7 Jan 2022

Research Provides a New Strategy to Activate High-Order Modes for Multiband Mid-Infrared Antennas

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; the research groups of Professor Zhong-Qun Tian from Xiamen University, Xiamen, China and Professor Huigao Duan from Hunan University Changsha, China discuss nanobridged rhombic antennas supporting both dipolar and high-order plasmonic modes with spatially superimposed hotspots in the mid-infrared.

6 Jan 2022

New “Smart Window” Design Can Efficiently Heat or Cool a House

Homeowners know that the type of windows in a house contribute greatly to heating and cooling efficiency. And that's a big deal-;maintaining indoor temperatures consumes great amounts of energy and accounts for 20 to 40 percent of the national energy budgets in developed countries.

6 Jan 2022

Auger Recombination Process in Quantum Dots can be Controlled Through Metamaterial Nanostructures

Quantum Dot (QD) is a nanometer-sized semiconductor nanocrystal that has unique optical properties such as the ability to emit light in the range of optical frequencies depending on its size.

6 Jan 2022

Optomechanical Quantum Teleportation: A Major Progress Toward Hybrid Quantum Internet

Researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands and the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil have shown that information encoded in a quantum bit (qubit) consisting of a single photon can be teleported to the mechanical motion of an optomechanical device comprising billions of atoms.

6 Jan 2022

Hyperchaos in the Mid-Infrared Regime Produced from Interband Cascade Lasers

Chaos, popular as butterfly effect, describes the irregular phenomenon of deterministic systems. Based on the unique features of sensitivity to initial conditions and unpredictability to future evolutions, chaos from laser diodes have found applications in private optical communication links, high-rate random number generations, Lidar systems, as well as recent optical computing networks.

5 Jan 2022

Miniaturized Particle Detectors Could Broaden the Applications of Cherenkov Detection

Cherenkov radiation refers to the photon emission from the swift charged particle moves with the velocity greater than the phase velocity of light in the surrounding materials.

5 Jan 2022

Minimizing Noise Using Machine Learning

Ultra-precise lasers find their use in various applications. For example, power cable monitoring, quantum computers, optical atomic clocks, and much more. However, all lasers tend to make noise, which scientists from DTU Fotonik wish to reduce with the help of machine learning.

4 Jan 2022

New Technique Allows to Optically Determine the Previously Indistinguishable Spin States

The alternation between singlet and triplet states of electron pairs in charge-separated states plays an important role in nature.

4 Jan 2022

New Algorithm to Improve Optical-Based Hand Gesture Recognition

In the 2002 science fiction blockbuster film Minority Report, Tom Cruise's character John Anderton uses his hands, sheathed in special gloves, to interface with his wall-sized transparent computer screen. The computer recognizes his gestures to enlarge, zoom in, and swipe away.

29 Dec 2021

Lipid Droplets Offer Lensing Effect for Monitoring Subcellular Structures

With the demand in real-time monitoring of endoplasmic variations and rapid detection of extracellular signals, a great number of approaches to bioimaging have been developed.

28 Dec 2021

Study Demonstrates a Special Equal-Inclination Interference Employing Non-Monochromatic Photons

Optical interference is not only a fundamental phenomenon that has enabled new theories of light to be derived, but it has also been used in interferometry for the measurement of small displacements, refractive index changes, and surface irregularities.

28 Dec 2021

Meta-Optics with Waveguide Technologies Propels Photonic Integrated Circuits to New Heights

Comprised of judiciously engineered microscopic photonic structures with subwavelength features, the concept of metasurface and metamaterials have proven fruitful results in the realm of meta-optics. Previous research attentions are mainly devoted to applying meta-structures to tailor light in free space and develop relevant devices and applications.

28 Dec 2021

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Integration of Optical Sensing into Orthopedic Surgical Devices

OLED Operated by 1.5-V Battery Produces Bright Emission Equivalent to a Typical Display

Radiant Demonstrates Solutions for Measuring Visual Experiences in XR Headsets at Photonics West Exhibition

Research Provides a New Strategy to Activate High-Order Modes for Multiband Mid-Infrared Antennas

New “Smart Window” Design Can Efficiently Heat or Cool a House

Auger Recombination Process in Quantum Dots can be Controlled Through Metamaterial Nanostructures

Optomechanical Quantum Teleportation: A Major Progress Toward Hybrid Quantum Internet

Hyperchaos in the Mid-Infrared Regime Produced from Interband Cascade Lasers

Miniaturized Particle Detectors Could Broaden the Applications of Cherenkov Detection

Minimizing Noise Using Machine Learning

New Technique Allows to Optically Determine the Previously Indistinguishable Spin States

New Algorithm to Improve Optical-Based Hand Gesture Recognition

Lipid Droplets Offer Lensing Effect for Monitoring Subcellular Structures

Study Demonstrates a Special Equal-Inclination Interference Employing Non-Monochromatic Photons

Meta-Optics with Waveguide Technologies Propels Photonic Integrated Circuits to New Heights

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