Lasers grown on microelectronics-compatible silicon are important step toward low-cost, smart, integrated mid-infrared photonic sensors.…
Browsing: Optics
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.
Could there be a new kind of light in the universe? Since the late 19th…
Researchers have generated a wide range of colors from a single laser after discovering a…
Researchers demonstrate fast and cost-effective platform for keeping data secure. Researchers demonstrated new chip-based devices…
Google is racing to develop quantum-enhanced processors that utilize quantum mechanical effects to one day…
New technology poised to drastically reduce weight, complexity and cost of cameras while increasing functionality.…
Topology Protects Light Propagation in Photonic Crystal Researchers of the research institute AMOLF and TU…
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms. Do…
Researchers use 2D materials—1/100,000 the size of a human hair—to manipulate the phase of light…
Method with polarized light can create and measure nonsymmetrical states in a layered material. Some…
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, with colleagues from Poland…
In a first for quantum physics, University of Otago researchers have “held” individual atoms in…
Terahertz camera uses laser light patterns to ‘see inside’ objects — Terahertz imaging can reveal…
Researchers at SAGA Light Source, the University of Toyama, Hiroshima University and the Institute for…
McMaster and Harvard University researchers create ‘intelligent’ interaction between light and material, establishing a promising…
“Abnormal” behavior predicted more than 50 years ago may help scientists probe the atmosphere and…
The University of Rochester research lab that recently used lasers to create unsinkable metallic structures…
The reference particle captured light for a time exceeding 200 periods of one wave oscillation,…