Optics

Credit: NTU Singapore An international team of scientists has developed a system that can generate random numbers over a hundred times faster than current technologies, paving the way towards faster, cheaper, and more secure…

New research throws wide open the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a single light sourceCredit: Image courtesy Boubacar Kanté Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a new way to…

Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have discovered a new type of bone cell that may reveal new therapeutic approaches for osteoporosis and other skeletal diseases. The new cells, which the researchers term…

An international team has shown through a sensational experiment how diverse the possibilities for employing synchrotron light sources are.Credit: Tsinghua University The most modern light sources for research are based on particle…

The award has gone in this thirteenth edition to the two scientists who developed new nanomaterials with applications in solar energy and cutting-edge electronicsCredit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge…

Credit: by Yuyang Wang, Hui Nie, Jinsong Han, Yaxun An, Yu-Mo Zhang and Sean Xiao-An Zhang The development of low-energy-consumption and user-friendly electronic displays has become a long-term goal for future global sustainable…

Supramolecular structure boosts efficiency of light harvesting for solar cells Organic molecules that capture photons and convert these into electricity have important applications for producing green energy. Light-harvesting complexes…

Credit: by Gebhardt, M., Heuermann, T., Klas, R. et al. Bright, coherent soft X-ray radiation (SXR) is used in many scientific applications such as advanced absorption spectroscopy or lens-less imaging, and in fundamental research…

Recent advances could make it feasible to deploy networks of methane sensors to detect this greenhouse gas at large facilitiesCredit: Sameer Khan WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new sensor that could allow practical…

Credit: EPFL/Alexey Tikan Periodic pulses of light forming a comb in the frequency domain are widely used for sensing and ranging. The key to the miniaturisation of this technology towards chip-integrated solutions is the…

Credit: The University of Queensland University of Queensland scientists have developed an ultraviolet 'television' display designed to help researchers better understand how animals see the world. Until now, standard…

Scientists decipher fingerprints of topological phases of light in nonlinear optical instabilitiesCredit: Institute for Basic Science We are most familiar with the four conventional phases of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.…

Highly-anticipated event will address integration of photonic functionality into data center roadmaps WASHINGTON - Photonics technologies have been shown to address some of the emerging challenges with data centers. But widespread…

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba use theoretical calculations to predict the possibility of 'massless' electrons in topological insulators excited with lasers, which may lead to faster and more efficient electronic devices Tsukuba,…

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers who focus on fat know that some adipose tissue is more prone to inflammation-related comorbidities than others, but the reasons why are not well understood. Thanks to…

Advanced polymer optical sensor is designed to be implanted for long-term health monitoringCredit: Xin Cheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed an extremely sensitive miniaturized…

Berkeley Lab contributes to planning process by U.S. fusion and plasma science communityCredit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) has…

Caucus Aims to Increase Investments and Advance Policies Supporting Light-based Technologies WASHINGTON - The newly formed U.S. Congressional Optics and Photonics (O&P) Caucus will host a virtual public launch event on Wednesday, 24…

A high-resolution imaging technique can be used to investigate materials in a non-destructive manner and with nanometer precisionCredit: Jens Meyer (University of Jena) Images provide information - what we can observe with our own…

Credit: ©ICFO/D. Alcaraz Over the past years, global data traffic has experienced a boom, with over 12.5 billion connected devices all over the world. The current world-wide deployment of the 5G telecommunications standard is…