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Advanced Photonics Nexus Journal to Publish First Issue in the Second Half of 2022

BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -; Advanced Photonics Nexus, an Open Access journal co-published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Chinese Laser Press (CLP), anticipates publication of its first issue in the second half of 2022.

21 Jan 2022

Realizing Discontinuous Quantum Phase Transition by Shaking an Optical Lattice Potential

Phase transitions are everywhere, ranging from water boiling to snowflakes melting, and from magnetic transitions in solids to cosmological phase transitions in the early universe.

21 Jan 2022

SPIE: TriLite Demos World’s Smallest Projection Display Powered by Infineon’s 2D MEMS Mirror

TriLite is proud to present Trixel® 3, the world’s smallest Laser Beam Scanner at SPIE Photonics West from January 23-25 in San Francisco, California, USA.

From TriLite Technologies GmbH 20 Jan 2022

Scientists Discover New Photonic Effect in Semiconducting Nanohelices

A new photonic effect in semiconducting helical particles with nanoscale dimensions has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Bath. The observed effect has the potential to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving medicines and photonic technologies.

19 Jan 2022

New Technique to Convert Greenhouse Gasses into Clean Energy Using Photonics

A European consortium is developing a new process that uses sunlight and LEDs to turn carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into clean energy products like methane gas and methanol liquid fuel.

19 Jan 2022

Radiant Celebrates 30 Years of Innovation in Imaging Metrology

REDMOND, Wash. – January 17, 2022 – Radiant Vision Systems announces its 30th anniversary as a leading provider of optical test and measurement solutions for displays and light sources. In celebration of this...

From Radiant Vision Systems 18 Jan 2022

Spin Qubits can be Potentially Useful for Quantum Networks that Employ Optical Fibers

Quantum computers may be able to solve science problems that are impossible for today's fastest conventional supercomputers. Quantum sensors may be able to measure signals that cannot be measured by today's most sensitive sensors. Quantum bits (qubits) are the building blocks for these devices.

17 Jan 2022

First-of-Its-Kind Smart Catalyst Turns Off When Illuminated with Light

Catalysts are compounds that enable and accelerate desired chemical reactions without themselves degrading and are pivotal in virtually all of applied chemistry.

17 Jan 2022

Research Could Open Up a New Route for the Realization of High-Mobility Organic Optoelectronics

Semiconductor electronic devices can be made of either inorganic crystals, formed by the strong bonding of atoms and ions, or organic crystals, which demonstrate weaker bonds held together by van der Waals forces (weak electric forces of attraction between neutral atoms or molecules that do not share a chemical bond).

17 Jan 2022

Waters Accelerates Quantitative Mass Spectrometry with New Application on waters_connect Informatics Platform

Waters Corporation today announced it is expanding its waters_connect™ informatics software platform to support customers analyzing food and environmental samples with Waters’ tandem quadrupole mass spectrometers.

From Waters Corporation 13 Jan 2022