Editor’s Picks

  1. Surrey Develops Ground-Breaking Flexible X-Ray Detector 7/25/2018

    Detectors that are presently used for mammograms and for dose measurements in radiotherapy are often rigid, causing errors in screening, or dose delivery to surrounding healthy tissue.

  2. Excelitas Technologies Unveils Enhanced High-Performance Avalanche Photodiodes For Ultra-Low Light Applications 2/3/2014

    Excelitas Technologies Corp., a global technology leader focused on delivering innovative, customized optoelectronics to OEMs seeking high-performance technology solutions, today announced the availability of an enhanced series of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) that provide high-responsivity for ultra-low light applications.

  3. Quantum Computing Spins Closer 11/24/2008
    The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes and simulating the atomic structure of materials.
  4. Nanomachine Of The Future Captures Great Scientist's Bold Vision 2/5/2007
    An idea conceived by one of the world's greatest scientists nearly 150 years ago has finally been realized with a tiny machine that could eventually lead to lasers moving objects remotely
  5. Thermally Stabilized Beam Expander Helps Verify Optical Performance 7/21/2010
    Optical Surfaces Ltd. has received an order from Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG. for a high performance, thermally stabilised beam expander. The beam expander will be used as part of the Tesat Optical System Test Bed for verification of the optical performance of their Laser Communication Terminals (LCTs).
  6. New X-Ray Imaging Approach Could Boost Nanoscale Resolution For Advanced Photon Source Upgrade 12/6/2018

    A long-standing problem in optics holds that an improved resolution in imaging is offset by a loss in the depth of focus.

  7. Switching Superconductivity By Light 2/12/2015

    A research team led by Prof. Hiroshi M. Yamamoto of the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences has developed a novel superconducting transistor which can be switched reversibly between ON and OFF by light-irradiation.

  8. Laser Dissection Of Depression 4/24/2008
    Chinese investigators from Hefei and Dutch researchers in Amsterdam have collaborated using for the first time a combination of new elegant methodology in Depression research.
  9. Visible fiber laser sees red 8/8/2003
    http://optics.org/articles/news/9/8/8/1
  10. When A Molecule Is A Molecule? 7/17/2014

    With ultra-short X-ray flashes by an international research team has observed electron transitions in exploding molecules.