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Alluxa’s Optical Filters Landed on Mars

Alluxa, Inc., a global leader in high-performance optical coatings and filters and thin-film deposition technologies, developed specialty optical filters used aboard the Perseverance Rover, which landed safely on Mars on February 18, 2021.

From Alluxa 9 Mar 2021

Sheaumann to Participate at Photonics West Digital Marketplace 2021 and Host Special Digital Event March 8-11

Sheaumann will be attending (albeit virtually) the Photonics West 2021 digital forum. The world’s premier lasers, biomedical optics, and optoelectronics event.

From Sheaumann Laser, Inc. 8 Mar 2021

Lynred Invests €2.8M to Develop Next-Generation Infrared Detectors Under Program Backed by French Government

Lynred, a leading global provider of high-quality infrared detectors for the aerospace, military and consumer markets, today announces that it will invest €2.8 million ($3.37 M) in developing next- generation infrared (IR) detectors. Lynred will receive €900,000 ($1.08 M) in R&D funding from the French government as part of a program to revamp the microelectronics ecosystem in France.

From LYNRED 5 Mar 2021

Virtual Reality Helps People Stay Fit and Well During Lockdown

People who use virtual reality headsets as a way of passing the time during lockdown are exercising more vigorously and feeling better about life.

4 Mar 2021

Intriguing Particles Emerge When Two Photons Couple

Scientists at the University of Bath in the UK have found a way to bind together two photons of different colours, paving the way for important advancements in quantum-electrodynamics – the field of science that describes how light and matter interact. In time, the team’s findings are likely to impact developments in optical and quantum communication, and precision measurements of frequency, time and distances.

3 Mar 2021

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

New Laser Number Generator System Could Enable More Secure Data Encryption

A new system created by an international group of researchers exhibits the ability to generate random numbers more than 100 times quicker than existing technologies, thus opening the door to quicker, cost-effective, more secure data encryption in the present-day’s digitally connected world.

26 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

International Study Reveals Exceptional Property of Next Generation Optical Fibres

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 co...

16 Feb 2021

Creating Free-Space Optical Communication System for High-Speed Wireless Internet

Visible and infrared light can carry more data than radio waves, but has always been confined to a hard-wired, fiber-optic cable. Working with Facebook's Connectivity Lab, a Duke research team has now made a major advance toward the dream of ditching the fiber in fiber optics.

12 Feb 2021