Optics

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesCredit: HHU / Wilfried Meyer "Gerard Mourou has accrued great merit in our faculty through his support of Physics as a subject," said Prof. Dr. Martin Mauve, Dean of the Faculty of…

Credit: FEFU press office Green bodies' porous structure, i.e. mesostructure, affects dramatically the functional parameters of the optical ceramics obtained by reactive sintering. Characteristics of the mesostructure are proposed to…

Credit: Insplorion/Johan Bodell Air pollution is responsible for 550,000 premature deaths a year in Europe - and 7 million worldwide, according to the WHO. Measuring it can be a challenge, however, as the equipment tends to be…

Laser catapulting creates miniaturized lenses with customized shapes and optical properties for cameras, solar cells and microscopes WASHINGTON -- A growing number of applications, including smartphone cameras, depend on microlenses to…

Plenary talks by Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Dongheui Lee give overviews of some of the latest advances in the field MUNICH, Germany--Plenary talks on the ongoing adaptive optics revolution and robot learning from human guidance will be…

Credit: Ann Sizemore Blevins At the chemical level, diamonds are no more than carbon atoms aligned in a precise, three-dimensional (3D) crystal lattice. However, even a seemingly flawless diamond contains defects: spots in that lattice…

Cheap and compact instrument based on two near-infrared light techniques diagnoses poor blood flow quickly and noninvasivelyCredit: Hua Feng WASHINGTON, D.C., June 11, 2019 -- Stroke, one of the leading causes of death worldwide, is…

Credit: Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University The simplest home medical tests might look like a deck of various silicon chips coated in special film, one that could detect drugs in the blood, another for proteins in the urine indicating…

Credit: Denis Baranov/Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a completely new way of capturing, amplifying and linking light to matter at…

Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and The University of New Mexico (UNM) today announced the groundbreaking findings of a two-year study of the plasmonic properties of daguerreotypes.…