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Novel Study Discloses the Hidden Potential of Metasurfaces

New metasurfaces have been designed by researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) for several years to manipulate light depending on its polarization state.

16 Aug 2021

Radiant Debuts Solutions for Production-Level Display Testing at Korea’s Largest Display Exhibition

REDMOND, Wash. – August 11, 2021 — Radiant Vision Systems, the leading provider of automated visual inspection solutions for displays, announces that it will exhibit for the first time at the 21st annual International Meeting on Information Display (IMID).

From Radiant Vision Systems 13 Aug 2021

Teledyne FLIR Introduces Neutrino SX8 Mid-Wavelength Infrared Camera Module and Four Neutrino IS Series Models with Integrated Continuous Zoom Lenses

Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today introduced the Neutrino SX8 mid-wavelength infrared camera module and four additional Neutrino IS Series models designed for integrated solutions requiring HD MWIR imagery with size, weight, power, and cost constraints for commercial, industrial, defense original equipment manufacturers, and system integrators.

From Teledyne FLIR LLC 13 Aug 2021

Experts Discuss Latest Developments in Integrated Photonics at 2021 OSA Advanced Photonics Congress

The latest developments in integrated photonics and their applications will be discussed at the virtual 2021 OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 26 - 30 July.

12 Aug 2021

Near-Infrared Spectrum Cameras can Help Hunters to Effectively Track Down Pythons

Just as the governor announced the start of python hunting season in Florida this month, researchers at the University of Central Florida have published a first- of-its-kind study that shows that near-infrared spectrum cameras can help hunters more effectively track down these invasive snakes, especially at night.

12 Aug 2021

Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses to Probe the Dynamics of Photoelectron Emission

Physicists at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics have used ultrashort laser pulses to probe the dynamics of photoelectron emission in tungsten crystals.

12 Aug 2021

Simple System can Generate Quantum-Secure Cryptographic Keys at Sustained Rates

In a new study, researchers demonstrate an automated, easy-to-operate quantum key distribution system using the fiber network in the city of Padua, Italy.

12 Aug 2021

New Optical Element Could Lead to Paper Thin Cameras, Telescopes

Can you imagine one day using a telescope as thin as a sheet of paper, or a much smaller and lighter high-performance camera? Or no longer having that camera bump behind your smartphone?

12 Aug 2021

Researchers Achieve New Threshold of Light-Matter Coupling at Nanoscale Level

A new threshold of light-matter coupling at the nanoscale has been achieved by physicists from the University of Southampton and ETH Zürich.

12 Aug 2021

Novel Molecular Imaging Technique Casts Complex Coordination Molecules in a New Light

High-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy can be used to determine complex conformational structures of both crystalline and amorphous polynuclear non-planar coordination molecules, as shown...

12 Aug 2021

Researchers Study Non-Linear Effects in a System of Two Coupled Optical Microcavities

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw demonstrated exciton-polariton lasing and parametric scattering of exciton-polaritons in a system of coupled optical microcavities.

11 Aug 2021

New High-Flux, Compact Cold-Atom Source can be a Key Component of Quantum Technologies

Although quantum technology has proven valuable for highly precise timekeeping, making these technologies practical for use in a variety of environments is still a key challenge.

11 Aug 2021

New Approaches and Achievements on Multi-Material Multi-Photon Micro/Nano-Printing

Multi-photon approaches provide printing rates of up to about ten million voxels per second. And, multi-photon-based 3D approaches structure matter with a resolution approaching sub-micrometer and nanometer feature sizes.

11 Aug 2021

Metamaterials Research may Enable Technological Advances in Electromagnetics and Photonics

Cornell researchers are proposing a new way to modulate both the absorptive and the refractive qualities of metamaterials in real time, and their findings open intriguing new opportunities to control, in time and space, the propagation and scattering of waves for applications in various areas of wave physics and engineering.

11 Aug 2021

Scientists Develop New Graphene-Based Phonon Lasers

Professor Konstantin Arutyunov of the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, together with Chinese researchers, has developed a graphene-based mechanical resonator, in which coherent emission of sound energy quanta, or phonons, has been induced.

11 Aug 2021