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Creating Free-Space Optical Communication System for High-Speed Wireless Internet

Visible and infrared light can carry more data than radio waves, but has always been confined to a hard-wired, fiber-optic cable. Working with Facebook's Connectivity Lab, a Duke research team has now made a major advance toward the dream of ditching the fiber in fiber optics.

12 Feb 2021

Novel Technique for Scalable Fabrication of Photonic Devices

Our world needs reliable telecommunications more than ever before. However, classic devices have limitations in terms of size and cost and, especially, power consumption - which is directly related to greenhouse emissions. Graphene could change this and transform the future of broadband.

12 Feb 2021

New Mass Spectrometry Imaging Method Based on Theory of Human Color Perception

Skoltech scientists have proposed a Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) method leveraging the unique features of human vision. The research was published in the journal Analytical Chemistry.

12 Feb 2021

ZEISS Opens New Multifunctional Electron and Light Microscope Training Facility in White Plains, NY

Provides in-person technical training for field engineers on servicing and preventative maintenance of ZEISS equipment

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 12 Feb 2021

ficonTEC Appoints Augusto Mandelli as Global Director Sales, Service, and Marketing

The extraordinary growth in the adoption of integrated photonic devices across a number of existing, emerging and societally important high-tech sectors has resulted in an exceptional 2020 for ficonTEC.

From ficonTEC Service GmbH 12 Feb 2021

Uniklasers Launch World’s First Laser to Operate With 349 nm Single Frequency

UniKLasers Limited, a leading manufacturer of high precision scientific laser instrumentation, has launched its new ultra-violet (UV) laser – The Duetto 349 – a single frequency DPSS CW device which emits at 349 nanometres (nm) with a 50 mW output – making it the world’s first laser to operate with single frequency at 349 nm.

From Skylark Lasers 12 Feb 2021

Researchers Create High-Torque Light-Powered Actuators

If you watch the leaves of a plant long enough, you may see them shift and turn toward the sunlight through the day. It happens slowly, but surely.

11 Feb 2021

Silicon Chip Provides Low Cost Solution to Help Machines See the World Clearly

Researchers in Southampton and San Francisco have developed the first compact 3D LiDAR imaging system that can match and exceed the performance and accuracy of most advanced, mechanical systems currently used.

10 Feb 2021

THz Spectroscopy Reveals Transient Evolution of Photoexcited Plasma in Liquid Water

Photoionization of water involves the migration and solvation of electrons, with many transient and highly active intermediates. The process results in a large blue shift in the absorption spectrum, from the THz or gigahertz region to the visible range.

10 Feb 2021

Novel Analytical Tools Developed by SMART Key to Next-Generation Agriculture

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision Interdisciplinary Research Group of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, highlight the potential of recently developed analytical tools that are rapid and non-destructive, with a proof of concept through first-generation examples.

10 Feb 2021

Teledyne Imaging's New LACera Technology Promises New Generation of Scientific Discovery

Teledyne Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies, is proud to introduce LACera™, a significant step forward in CMOS capabilities for advanced imaging which will enable the next generation of scientific discovery.

10 Feb 2021

Imec Demonstrates 20 nm Pitch Line/Space Resist Imaging with High-NA EUV Interference Lithography

Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, reports for the first time the use of a 13.5 nm High Harmonic Generation source for the printing of 20 nm pitch line/spaces using interference lithographic imaging of an Inpria metal-oxide resist under high-numerical-aperture (high-NA) conditions.

From imec Inc. 10 Feb 2021

Lenses and Optical Systems for Challenging Environments

Resolve Optics is a leading supplier of bespoke lenses and optical systems that offer many advantages over regular off-the-shelf commercial-grade optics for use in environmentally challenging aerospace, industrial, and military applications.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 9 Feb 2021

Sheaumann Announces New Photonics Focused Incubator

Sheaumann is announcing its brand-new incubator space, The Incubator @ Sheaumann. The Incubator, Sheaumann’s photonics-focused accelerator, will occupy the entire 20,000 square foot top floor of the Sheaumann building.

From Sheaumann Laser, Inc. 9 Feb 2021

Multiplying Light Signals can Solve Challenging Computational Problems

An important class of challenging computational problems, with applications in graph theory, neural networks, artificial intelligence and error-correcting codes can be solved by multiplying light signals, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia.

9 Feb 2021