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Changing Shape of Chalcogenide Glasses can Extend Their Use into the Visible and Ultraviolet Spectrum

Electrical engineers at Duke University have discovered that changing the physical shape of a class of materials commonly used in electronics and near- and mid-infrared photonics -- chalcogenide glasses -- can extend their use into the visible and ultraviolet parts of electromagnetic spectrum.

6 Oct 2021

NED-LMD Waveguide Near-Eye Display Tester Honored by 2021 Laser Focus World Innovator Awards

Gamma Scientific, a world-class solution provider of high-precision optical radiation testing, measurement, and calibration technologies and products announced today that its NED-LMD Waveguide Tester was recognized among the best by the 2021 Laser Focus World Innovators Awards.

From Gamma Scientific 6 Oct 2021

Scientists Demonstrate Trapping Light with Disorder to Acquire Random Laser

Similar to a pinball game worked by a good player, a group of obstacles randomly placed can be adequate to capture light without requiring an optical cavity.

6 Oct 2021

Crestoptics Introduces DeepSIM Super Resolution Confocal Microscope Module

CrestOptics S.p.A., a manufacturer of high-end microscopy solutions and advanced systems for fluorescence microscopy and diagnostic applications, today announced the launch of DeepSIM, a super resolution module designed to enhance the imaging capabilities of confocal microscope systems.

From CrestOptics S.p.A. 6 Oct 2021

Researchers Find Specific UV Light Wavelength Safe for Humans but Harmful to COVID-19 Virus

A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder informs that a particular wavelength of ultraviolet (UV) light is not only very effective at destroying the virus which causes COVID-19 but can also be safely used in public spaces.

5 Oct 2021

New Laser Could Help Study Exceptionally Fast or High-Power Light-Matter Interactions

A fiber-laser system has been integrated with the latest developments in multi-pass cells to design a laser with a special combination of few-cycle pulses at high pulse energy, average power and repetition rate and with stable carrier envelope phase (CEP) operation.

4 Oct 2021

Research Paves the Way for Developments in THz Opto-Electronics, Wireless Communication

Using organic DAST crystals pumped with mid-IR pulses, researchers have created an exceptionally strong terahertz field that can directly drive a large change in transmission of a visible probe pulse in quantum dots.

4 Oct 2021

Recent Advances in Quantum Optics Based on Metasurfaces

This paper summarizes recent works on quantum optics based on micro/nano structures. Since its birth, quantum optics has been full of controversies with the locality and reality of classical physics versus the non-locality and uncertainty of quantum physics.

1 Oct 2021