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KAUST Researchers Develop New Approach to Fabricate White-Light LEDs

The advantages of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), such as their tiny size, low cost and excellent power efficiency, mean they are found everywhere in modern life. A KAUST team has recently developed a way of producing a white-light LED that overcomes some critical challenges.

22 Dec 2020

New Chromophores Emit Light in UV Region when Excited with Visible Light

In general, fluorescence involves the transformation of light at shorter wavelengths to light at longer wavelengths. Now, researchers have come up with a new chromophore system that works inversely.

21 Dec 2020

Complementary Imaging Methods Help Study Composition of Aged Jewish Scroll

A famous adage says “A picture is worth a thousand words.” However, multiple images of an artifact captured over the electromagnetic spectrum can reveal a rich story related to the original creation and degradation of historical objects as time passes.

21 Dec 2020

New Chip-Based Photon Source is 100 Times More Efficient than Any Previous Device

Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives -- but first, researchers need a fast, efficient source of the entangled pairs of photons such systems use to transmit and manipulate information.

18 Dec 2020

Study Helps to Better Understand the Nonlinear Optical Phenomena of 2D Materials

Since the invention of world's first laser - the ruby laser - in 1960, the human desire to control light has spread to various industries, including telecommunications, medicine, GPS, optical sensors and optical computers.

18 Dec 2020

Research Illuminates the Interactions Between Hybrid Light-Matter Quasiparticles

Why do two-dimensional exciton-polaritons interact

18 Dec 2020

Chromasens Debuts its First SWIR Line Scan Camera

Aiming to drive machine vision beyond the visible spectrum, Chromasens today launched its first Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) line scan camera, the allPIXA SWIR.

From Chromasens GmbH 18 Dec 2020

Free Online Event to Showcase Latest Photonics-Related Technology and Applications

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and the Chinese Laser Press will host a colloquium sponsored by their co-published journal Advanced Photonics. The six 90-minute interactive events will be moderated by the journal's associate editors and will cover new research and innovations in nanophotonics, imaging, quantum research, and metalenses. Registration for the events is free and open to the public.

15 Dec 2020

Researchers Find a Way to Create Ballistic Optical Materials

Electronics are increasingly being paired with optical systems, such as when accessing the internet on an electronically run computer through fiber optic cables.

15 Dec 2020

Researchers Report a Compact High-Brightness Mid-IR-Driven Source Coherent Light

Analytical optical methods are vital to our modern society as they permit the fast and secure identification of substances within solids, liquids or gases.

15 Dec 2020