Optics

With a tweak of only 0.3 millimeters, a material designed to absorb all light of a specific color demands the waves be synchronized as wellCredit: Willie Padilla, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have…

UCSB engineering professor John Bowers' group develops a high-performance quantum dot mode-locked laser on silicon Ten years into the future. That's about how far UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor John Bowers…

Non-invasive imaging technique could greatly enhance cancer therapiesCredit: Junjie Yao, Duke University Measuring a fever is usually pretty simple: place a thermometer under a patient's tongue and get an accurate temperature reading…

Enabling perovskite LEDs longer lifetimeCredit: City University of Hong Kong Metal halide perovskites are regarded as next generation materials for light emitting devices (LEDs). A recent joint-research co-led by the scientist from City…

A team of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic State University suggested a method to quickly identify single antibiotic-resistant bacteria cells that are the agents of tuberculosis.Credit: Andrey Zyubin A team of physicists from Immanuel…

Swiss physicist honored for his work on quantum cascade lasersCredit: H. Hofstettler The 2019 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics has been awarded to Professor Jerome Faist of ETH Zürich in Switzerland. The award, which comes with…

Credit: Ann Sizemore Blevins Quantum computers promise to be a revolutionary technology because their elementary building blocks, qubits, can hold more information than the binary, 0-or-1 bits of classical computers. But to harness this…

Gifts from James C. Wyant, Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman, Robert R. Shannon highlight generosity and support of optics and photonics community WASHINGTON -- -Two past presidents of The Optical Society (OSA) -- Joseph W. Goodman (1992) and…

Credit: © Vytautas Navikas / 2019 EPFL Optical circuits are set to revolutionize the performance of many devices. Not only are they 10-100 times faster than electronic circuits, but they also consume a lot less power. Within these…

Scientists marry gas-trapping framework to light-powered nanocatalystsCredit: Image courtesy of LANP/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Feb. 8, 2019) -- When Rice University chemist and engineer Hossein Robatjazi set out to marry a molecular…