Editor’s Picks

  1. Researchers Design Highly Sensitive, Mass Producible Organic Photodetectors 8/25/2022
  2. Olympus Offers Fast, Easy Spectral Reflectivity Measurements For Lens Design And Manufacturing 1/25/2011
    Olympus, a world leader in industrial measuring and inspection systems, now offers a spectral reflectivity measurement system for lens manufacturing.
  3. Breakthrough Could Enable Infrared Cameras For Electronics, Self-Driving Cars 3/7/2019

    There’s an entire world our eyes miss, hidden in the ranges of light wavelengths that human eyes can’t see. But infrared cameras can pick up the secret light emitted as plants photosynthesize, as cool stars burn and batteries get hot.

  4. A Laser Could Offer A Peek Into The Insides Of Our Muscles Or Look Through Fire 11/20/2024

    I use lasers to see things that are hard to see and measure with the naked eye.

  5. The Right Filter, Right Now 3/17/2026

    IDEX Health & Science offers Quick Ship Semrock optical filters, delivering critical research and prototyping components in 1–3 days to keep your projects on schedule.

  6. New Easy-To-Use Optical Chip Can Self-Configure To Perform Various Functions 10/11/2023

    Researchers have developed an easy-to-use optical chip that can configure itself to achieve various functions. The positive real-valued matrix computation they have achieved gives the chip the potential to be used in applications requiring optical neural networks.

  7. Leaky-Wave Metasurfaces: A Perfect Interface Between Free-Space And Integrated Optical Systems 5/8/2023

    Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new class of integrated photonic devices--“leaky-wave metasurfaces”--that can convert light initially confined in an optical waveguide to an arbitrary optical pattern in free space.

  8. New Quantum Computer Design To Predict Molecule Properties 5/28/2018

    The standard approach to build a quantum computer with Majoranas as building blocks is to convert them into qubits. However, a promising application of quantum computing—quantum chemistry—would require these qubits to be converted again into so-called fermions.

  9. New Material Set To Boost Quantum Tech And Biomedical Imaging 9/17/2025

    A new paper from researchers at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo details the fabrication and application of a new material that can capture light and control the location of its absorption with unprecedented accuracy, advancing the development of next-generation photodetectors.

  10. Downsizing The Particle Accelerator 3/26/2019

    Munich physicists have succeeded in demonstrating plasma wakefield acceleration of subatomic particles in a miniaturized, laser-driven model. The new system provides a broader basis for the development of the next generation of particle accelerators.