Editor’s Picks

  1. Light From Inside The Tunnel 6/30/2020

    Steering and monitoring the light-driven motion of electrons inside matter on the time-scale of a single optical cycle is a key challenge in ultrafast light wave electronics and laser-based material processing.

  2. DOE Names Caltech Professor As Director Of EFRC Focusing On Light-Material Interactions 5/14/2009
    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has announced that it will fund the creation of 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) over the next five years, including one that will be housed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
  3. Osram Unveils Low-Power-Consumption Proximity And Ambient Light Sensor To Control Smartphone Display Backlighting And Touch Functions 4/25/2013

    Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has expanded its portfolio of proximity and ambient light sensors with a new powerful version with low power consumption.

  4. Neutrons Identify Key Ingredients Of The Quantum Spin Liquid Recipe 12/9/2016

    Neutron scattering studies of a rare earth metal oxide have identified fundamental pieces to the quantum spin liquid puzzle, revealing a better understanding of how and why the magnetic moments within these materials exhibit exotic behaviors such as failing to freeze into an ordered arrangement even near absolute zero temperatures.

  5. Advance Brings Low-Cost, Bright LED Lighting Closer To Reality 7/21/2008
    Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted.
  6. Coherent Samples Low-Noise 400 mW CW Lasers For Co-Packaged Optics And Silicon Photonics 9/25/2025

    Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in photonics, today announced the sampling of its latest high-power 400 mW continuous-wave (CW) lasers, designed to meet the demanding requirements of next-generation co-packaged optics (CPO) and silicon photonics applications.

  7. Photonics For Monitoring Flooding And Climate Change, Sensors For Security, And More Will Highlight SPIE Event 9/10/2010
    Two collocated events featuring photonics advances in next-generation satellites, remote sensing of the Earth and the environment, LIDAR, infrared, electro-optical remote sensing, sensors, and more will draw international researchers and developers to Toulouse this month.
  8. Quantum Technologies For The Communication Networks Of The Future 8/31/2022

    At the end of July, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) announced the funding of two projects coordinated by the TU Dresden.

  9. Connecting The (Nano) Dots: Big-Picture Thinking Can Advance Nanoparticle Manufacturing 8/22/2018

    Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that “good things come in small packages.”

  10. Optical Windows For Wind Tunnel Aerodynamic Testing 9/24/2020

    Optical Surfaces Ltd is a producer of large diameter, high precision windows for wind tunnel aerodynamic testing.