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Prehistoric Creature-Inspired Tiny Lenses to See Both Near and Far

The oceans, some five hundred million years ago, were full of trillions of trilobites. Trilobites were distant relatives of the horseshoe crab.

20 Apr 2022

Specialist Optics for Nuclear Systems Integrators

Drawing upon over 25-year experience of the nuclear industry – Resolve Optics can quickly adapt existing designs to produce optimised non-browning fixed focus and zoom lenses for Nuclear Systems Integrators supplying monitoring systems to operate in medium and high radiation environments.

From Resolve Optics Ltd. 20 Apr 2022

Alluxa’s New Catalog of Products with Extended Spectral Performance from UV to IR

Alluxa, Inc., a global leader in high-performance optical coatings and filters and thin-film deposition technologies, announces the expansion of the online product catalog featuring hard-coated specialty filters with ext...

From Alluxa 19 Apr 2022

Rapid Fabrication of Optical Interconnects using New Polymer Materials

Researchers have developed new polymer materials that are ideal for making the optical links necessary to connect chip-based photonic components with board-level circuits or optical fibers. The polymers can be used to easily create interconnects between photonic chips and optical printed circuit boards, the light-based equivalent of electronic printed circuit boards.

15 Apr 2022

Researchers Use Modular Waveguide-Based Light Source to Generate Strongly Nonclassical Light

For the first time, researchers have successfully generated strongly nonclassical light using a modular waveguide-based light source. The achievement represents a crucial step toward creating faster and more practical optical quantum computers.

13 Apr 2022

Novel Algorithm Delivers Superresolution Images Faster than the Current Standard Imaging Method

The method of superresolution structured illumination microscopy (SR-SIM) for observing the subcellular dynamics in living cells is exceptional.

13 Apr 2022

New Fibre Optic Controller with Variable Switching Outputs can be Adapted to Suit a Wide Range of Position and Presence Detection Applications

Precision sensor manufacturer Micro-Epsilon has introduced an optoelectronic fibre optic sensor solution for reliable position control and presence detection in a wide range of industrial automation and process control applications.

13 Apr 2022

Research Shows How Optical Metasurfaces Helps to Develop Coupled Light Vortices

Twists in fluids may be found in water whirlpools, smoke rings, strong tornadoes, and spiral galaxies, all of which are significantly distinct from one another. The research group headed by Antonio Ambrosio at the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) in Milano has developed similar twists in the world of light (Italy).

12 Apr 2022

Novel Nanolithography Approach Combines Interference Lithography and Grayscale-Patterned Secondary Exposure

The precise control of feature sizes exhibits great importance in fabricating nanodevices for optoelectronics, plasmonics, meta-optics, and biosciences, just to name a few. Some applications require nanostructures with uniform feature sizes while others rely on spatially varying morphologies.

12 Apr 2022