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New Optical Antennas Could Exponentially Increase Data Transmission

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of data they carry. They demonstrated the emission of discrete twisting laser beams from antennas made up of concentric rings roughly equal to the diameter of a human hair, small enough to be placed on computer chips.

26 Feb 2021

Researchers Synthesize Organic Light-Harvesting Supramolecule Based on DNA

Organic molecules that capture photons and convert these into electricity have important applications for producing green energy. Light-harvesting complexes need two semiconductors, an electron donor and an acceptor. How well they work is measured by their quantum efficiency, the rate by which photons are converted into electron-hole pairs.

25 Feb 2021

Researchers Discover Fast-Switching Photochromism in an Inorganic Material

Isn't it convenient when office building windows adaptively darken according to the intensity of sunlight- Or when standard glasses turn into sunglasses under the sun and switch back as you enter a building- Such feats are possible thanks to photochromic materials, whose optical (and other) properties change radically when irradiated by visible or ultraviolet light.

24 Feb 2021

Optical Measurement Technology and Space Data can Help Increase Efficiency of Forestry's Value Chain

The joint project researches how increasing the efficiency of forestry's value chain can benefit from optical measurement technology and satellite data. The partners are researching concrete applications and mapping which actors would be able to utilise the new technologies in their operations.

23 Feb 2021

A New Technique to Enhance Spin Hall Effect of Light with Near 100% Efficiency

A POSTECH-KAIST joint research team has successfully developed a technique to reach near-unity efficiency of SHEL by using an artificially-designed metasurface.

22 Feb 2021

Sloshing of Quantum Liquids Reveals Intriguing Superfluid Properties

The 'sloshing' of a quantum fluid comprised of light and matter reveals superfluid properties.

17 Feb 2021

Study Highlights Exceptional Optical Property of Hollow-Core Fibers

Researchers from the University of Southampton and Université Laval, Canada, have successfully measured for the first time back-reflection in cutting-edge hollow-core fibres that is around 10,000 times lower than conventional optical fibres.

17 Feb 2021

KPM Analytics Acquires EyePro System S.r.l. to Better Serve Food Manufacturing and Processing Markets with True Color, 3D, and Hyperspectral Vision Inspection Systems

KPM Analytics Inc. announced today that it has acquired EyePro System S.r.l., a company headquartered in Trento, Italy, that specializes in vision inspection technology and vision-based process control solutions for the baking and snack industries.

16 Feb 2021

Novel Technique for Scalable Fabrication of Photonic Devices

Our world needs reliable telecommunications more than ever before. However, classic devices have limitations in terms of size and cost and, especially, power consumption - which is directly related to greenhouse emissions. Graphene could change this and transform the future of broadband.

12 Feb 2021

ficonTEC Appoints Augusto Mandelli as Global Director Sales, Service, and Marketing

The extraordinary growth in the adoption of integrated photonic devices across a number of existing, emerging and societally important high-tech sectors has resulted in an exceptional 2020 for ficonTEC.

From ficonTEC Service GmbH 12 Feb 2021