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New System Could Create Patterns and Images with a Zap of Light

When was the last time you repainted your car- Redesigned your coffee mug collection- Gave your shoes a colorful facelift-

5 May 2021

'Twisting' Atomically Thin Semiconductor Materials may Convert Light into Electricity

A pair of physicists at the University of California, Riverside, are aiming to convert light falling on atomically thin semiconductor materials into electricity, having received more than $582,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of the Army.

3 May 2021

Spark-Free Optical Sensors Detect the Presence of Hydrogen Without Electronics

Hydrogen as a clean, renewable alternative to fossil fuels is part of a sustainable-energy future, and very much already here.

30 Apr 2021

CCNY Team Takes First Step Towards Realizing Chip-Scale Scalable Single Photon Switches

The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is a fundamental building block for quantum photonic technologies.

29 Apr 2021

Silicon Could be a Powerful Material for Photonic Informational Manipulation

New research from the University of Surrey has shown that silicon could be one of the most powerful materials for photonic informational manipulation - opening up new possibilities for the production of lasers and displays.

28 Apr 2021

Exploiting Non-Line-Of-Sight Links for Terahertz Signals to Enable Ultrafast Wireless Data Transmission

If a base station in a local area network tries to use a directional beam to transmit a signal to a user trying to connect to the network -- instead of using a wide area network broadcast, as base stations commonly do -- how does it know which direction to send the beam-

28 Apr 2021

Light Manipulation with Silicon Could be a Photonics Game-Changer

A lucky break has shown silicon is a powerful material for use in the manipulation of light.

28 Apr 2021

New Polishing Technique Improves Finesse of Fabry Perot Etalons

Optical Surfaces Ltd. reports on the development of a new polishing technique that has been shown to reproducibly improve the spectral filtering capability (finesse) of Fabry Perot etalons.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 27 Apr 2021

Optical Device Allows Engineers to Fine Tune the Color of Light

Among the first lessons any grade school science student learns is that white light is not white at all, but rather a composite of many photons, those little droplets of energy that make up light, from every color of the rainbow - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

26 Apr 2021

Research Paves the Way for More Efficient Photocatalysts

Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surfaces, pollution-fighting paints and coatings, hydrogen production and CO2 conversion to sustainable fuels.

23 Apr 2021