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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 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 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

OIDA Launches Ones to Watch Report Series Profiling Innovative Early-Stage Photonics Companies

The OSA Industry Development Associates today announced the launch of the Ones to Watch report series profiling innovative early-stage photonics companies.

11 Aug 2021

Novel Chip can Revolutionize the Current Data Rate for Processors Using Microwave Photonics

According to the United Nations' telecommunications agency, 93% of the global population has access to a mobile-broadband network of some kind.

11 Aug 2021

New Framework and Cascaded Metadevices for Achieving Dynamic Control of THz Wavefronts

Electromagnetic waves in the terahertz regime contribute to important applications in communications, security imaging, and bio- and chemical sensing.

11 Aug 2021

The PhaseCam 6110 Laser Interferometer and 4Sight Focus Software Increase Quality Measurement of Optics and Wavefront Transmission

4D Technology Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Onto Innovation Inc., announces the release of the newest addition to their industry-leading line of PhaseCam dynamic interferometers, supported by the release of 4...

From 4D Technology 9 Aug 2021

New Method for Efficient Conversion of Light from One Wavelength to Another

At the Samueli School of Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), electrical engineers have come up with a highly efficient method of converting light from one wavelength to another.

2 Aug 2021

Researchers Develop a General Framework and Metadevices for Dynamic Control of THz Wavefronts

Electromagnetic waves in the terahertz regime contribute to important applications in communications, security imaging, and bio- and chemical sensing. Such wide applicability has resulted in significant technological progress.

26 Jul 2021