Featured Editorial

1. Red Lights Journey From Biostimulation To Brain Therapy 10/23/2025

   Red-light therapy, rooted in a century of light-based medicine, shows limited yet promising scientific support for neurological, ocular, and wound-healing applications.

2. High-Speed Cameras: Trends, Innovations, And The Challenges Ahead 10/22/2025

   High-speed cameras are advancing into new spectral bands, integrating AI, and enhancing sensitivity, but challenges such as data bottlenecks and trade-offs persist.

3. When A "Bad Picture" Changed Everything: The Accidental Birth Of Holography 10/20/2025

   Dennis Gabor accidentally invented holography in 1947 while trying to fix electron microscopes, creating a technology that now shapes medicine, data storage, and AR.

4. How Thin-Film Coating Advancements Are Improving Device Performance 10/16/2025

   Thin-film coatings – crucial in telecommunications, healthcare diagnostics, consumer electronics, aerospace defense, automotive, and industrial automation – continue to evolve, and their role in enabling high-capacity data transmission and improving device functionality is becoming more prominent.

5. Beyond The Surface: How Laser Technology Revolutionized Marine Mapping 10/9/2025

   From George Hickman's 1968 pioneering flight to NASA's space-based systems, bathymetric LiDAR has revolutionized underwater mapping and marine exploration.

6. How Cleanroom Testing Protects Sensitive Optics And Lasers   10/7/2025

   Engineers know that a pristine optical path is critical, but keeping it that way requires rigorous cleanroom testing, precise handling, and an understanding of how contaminants interact with light at both the particulate and molecular levels. 

7. How Machine Vision Transformed Fiber-Optic Reliability 10/6/2025

   Automated machine vision paired with photonics revolutionized fiber-optic connectivity in the 1990s, enabling consistent, high-speed internet by ensuring connectors remained clear of microscopic defects.

8. TWPA And The Future Of Scalable Quantum Computing 9/30/2025

   Qubic's cryogenic traveling-wave parametric amplifier slashes quantum computer heat emissions by 10,000x, enabling scalable, efficient, next-generation quantum systems.

9. Photonics Redefined: Crystalline Coatings And Graphene In Advanced Optics 9/24/2025

   Explore the latest breakthroughs in crystalline optical coatings and graphene-based photonic components, highlighting their mechanisms and transformative applications.

10. Illuminating Skin Diagnostics: The Promise Of Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy 9/23/2025

    Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy is redefining skin diagnostics through non-invasive, quantitative, and portable analysis – advancing cancer detection, skin health monitoring, and future personalized care.