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Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the design of instruments that use or detect it. From understanding reflection, refraction, and diffraction to advancing technologies like lasers, fiber optics, and imaging systems, optics plays a foundational role in both scientific research and everyday applications. It’s also key to fields like astronomy, medicine, telecommunications, and quantum computing. This page features the latest developments in optical science, showcasing discoveries that are shaping our ability to observe, manipulate, and harness light in innovative ways.
The lens can be used to produce high-resolution images with a wide field of view.…
Case Western Reserve scientists, collaborators at Harvard and Italian university Unical, aim to ‘revolutionize optics’…
Researchers have fashioned ultrathin silicon nanoantennas that trap and redirect light, for applications in quantum…
Rooftop radiative cooling system could provide lighting power when solar energy is unavailable. Researchers have…
Lenses are one of the most commonly used optical components in daily life, including eyeglasses,…
Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue color of its fruit…
The speed of a message traveling in these packets is no longer affected by traveling…
Wits Researchers have demonstrated a new quantum approach for sharing a secret amongst many parties,…
Ultrashort laser pulses induce unusual sound waves via a structural instability in a material. RIKEN…
Using photons to create more powerful and power-efficient processing units for more complex machine learning.…
Scientists have found that a physical property called ‘quantum negativity’ can be used to take…
Spectroscopy is the use of light to analyze physical objects and biological samples. Different kinds…
Institute of Optics research sets record for shortest laser pulse for newly developed technology, work…
Physicists succeed at engineering an optical mirror made of only a few hundred atoms. It…
MIT researchers develop integrated lightwave electronic circuits to detect the phase of ultrafast optical fields.…
A world-first in light conversion has potential future implications for solar photovoltaics, biomedical imaging, drug…
Steering and monitoring the light-driven motion of electrons inside matter on the time-scale of a…