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Scientists Develop Modular Bridge Design for Nanoscale Photonic Chip

Light is emerging as the leading vehicle for information processing in computers and telecommunications as our need for energy efficiency and bandwidth increases.

18 May 2020

Researchers Use Light to Track Individual Molecules in Real Time

A research team at the Living Systems Institute of the University of Exeter has established a method for real-time monitoring of the properties and structure of individual molecules using light.

18 May 2020

New Technique Uses Photonic Circuits to Speed Up Coherent LiDAR

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) includes a series of methods in which laser light is used to quantify distances by multiplying the time delay between received and transmitted optical signals with the speed of light.

14 May 2020

Alluxa Announces New Online Catalog for Fluorescence Filter Sets

Alluxa, Inc.,a global leader in high-performance optical coatings and filters and thin-film deposition technologies,announces an online catalog of fluorescencefilters developed for use in COVID-19 testing devices.

From Alluxa 14 May 2020

New Method to Control Frequency of Confined Light at Nanoscale

An international team led by researchers from the University of Oviedo and the Centre for Research in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, together with scientist from the Basque research centers CIC nanoGUNE, DIPC, Materials Physics Center (CSIC-UPV/EHU), and international collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Austrian Institute of Technology, Paris Materials Centre, and University of Tokyo has discovered an effective method for controlling the frequency of confined light at the nanoscale in the form of phonon polaritons.

11 May 2020

JPL and Hinds Instruments: Celebrating Nearly Two Decades of Collaborative Design to Put PEMs in Space Under NASA Projects

Beginning with technology development efforts in the mid-2000s, flights of the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI) starting in 2010, and extending to the current Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) project, Hinds Instruments has worked closely with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to develop an aerospace qualified Photoelastic Modulator (PEM).

From Hinds Instruments, Inc. 6 May 2020

Artificial Neuron Trained to Characterize Coherent and Thermal Light

Identifying sources of light plays an important role in the development of many photonic technologies, such as lidar, remote sensing, and microscopy. Traditionally, identifying light sources as diverse as sunlight, laser radiation, or molecule fluoresce

6 May 2020

New Organic Material Changes Color Under Mechanical Stress

Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, part of The University of Tokyo, and Yokohama City University have introduced novel color-changing organic crystals that spontaneously return to their original shape and hue after being stressed, a property they call superelastochromism.

4 May 2020

ETRI Develops Ultra-Fast Transmitting/Receiving Optical Engine

Researchers in South Korea have developed ultra-fast transmitting/receiving optical engine that can provide stable and improved data transfer speed for data centers.

30 Apr 2020

Radiant Hosts Webinar with IEEE GlobalSpec Presenting Optical Metrology Systems for Head-Up Display Measurement

Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of test and measurement solutions for lighting and displays, announces that it will host a webinar with IEEE GlobalSpec (Engineering 360) presenting the latest trends in automotive head-up display (HUD) technology, from conventional to augmented reality (AR) HUD.

From Radiant Vision Systems 30 Apr 2020