Optics News
August 25, 2025
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Aug. 25, 2025 — Researchers cracked the mystery of altermagnets, materials with no net magnetization yet strange light-reflecting powers, by creating a new optical measurement method. Their findings confirmed altermagnetism in an organic crystal and opened doors to ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — A Rochester team engineered a new type of solar thermoelectric generator that produces 15 times more power than earlier versions. By enhancing heat absorption and dissipation rather than tweaking semiconductor materials, they dramatically improved ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Ripple bugs’ fan-like legs inspired engineers to build the Rhagobot, a tiny robot with self-morphing fans. By mimicking these insects’ passive, ultra-fast movements, the robot gains speed, control, and endurance without extra ...
Aug. 24, 2025 — Scientists have developed a groundbreaking cryo-optical microscopy technique that freezes living cells mid-action, capturing ultra-detailed snapshots of fast biological processes. By rapidly immobilizing cells at precise moments, researchers can ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — By using quantum dots and smart encryption protocols, researchers overcame a 40-year barrier in quantum communication, showing that secure networks don’t need perfect hardware to outperform today’s best ...
Aug. 23, 2025 — Researchers at Zhejiang University have found a way to stop performance-killing Auger recombination in perovskite lasers, using a clever additive during processing. Their method produced a record-breaking laser with unprecedented efficiency, ...
Aug. 15, 2025 — Researchers have found a clever way to make quantum dots, tiny light-emitting crystals, produce streams of perfectly controlled photons without relying on expensive, complex electronics. By using a precise sequence of laser pulses, the team can ...
Aug. 11, 2025 — Scientists have found that microscopic gold clusters can act like the world’s most accurate quantum systems, while being far easier to scale up. With tunable spin properties and mass production potential, they could transform quantum computing and ...
July 19, 2025 — Scientists have cracked a century-old physics mystery by detecting magnetic signals in non-magnetic metals using only light and a revamped laser technique. Previously undetectable, these faint magnetic “whispers” are now measurable, revealing ...
July 14, 2025 — Researchers have cracked a fundamental optical challenge: how to control both angle and wavelength of light independently—a problem that’s limited imaging and display technologies for years. By ...
July 12, 2025 — Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works at room temperature, using a buried layer of glass-like material instead of the usual air holes. This design not only boosts ...
July 10, 2025 — A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, revealing two simultaneous wind–wave energy-transfer tricks—slow short waves steal power from the breeze, while long giants ...
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Aug. 18, 2025 — ETH Zurich scientists have levitated a tower of three nano glass spheres using optical tweezers, suppressing almost all classical motion to observe quantum zero-point fluctuations with unprecedented ...
Aug. 17, 2025 — Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to its most fundamental limits. Using ...
Aug. 13, 2025 — A groundbreaking quantum device small enough to fit in your hand could one day answer one of the biggest questions in science — whether the ...
Aug. 9, 2025 — Physicists are exploring thorium-229’s unique properties to create a nuclear clock so precise it could detect the faintest hints of dark matter. Recent measurement advances may allow scientists to ...
Aug. 2, 2025 — Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the true limits of light’s wave–particle duality. Their results proved ...
Aug. 1, 2025 — Physicists have discovered that when beams of light interact at the quantum level, they can generate ghost-like particles that briefly emerge from nothing and affect real matter. This rare ...
July 22, 2025 — Scientists have observed a brand-new and exotic atomic nucleus: aluminium-20. Unlike anything seen before, it decays through a stunning three-proton emission sequence, shedding light on nuclear ...
July 6, 2025 — Scientists have captured the moment a laser "comes to life"—and what they found challenges long-held beliefs. Using a special technique to film laser light in real time, researchers observed how ...
July 3, 2025 — A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and ...
June 27, 2025 — Imagine detecting a single trillionth of a gram of a molecule—like an amino acid—using just electricity and a chip smaller than your fingernail. That’s the power of a new quantum-enabled ...
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June 27, 2025 — Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense laser pulse in a single shot—something previously thought nearly ...
June 23, 2025 — Researchers in Sweden have developed a powerful new material that dramatically boosts the ability to create hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight, making the process eight times more effective than ...
June 19, 2025 — Scientists have, for the first time, directly observed phonon wave dynamics within self-assembling nanomaterials unlocking the potential for customizable, reconfigurable metamaterials with ...
June 14, 2025 — Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a groundbreaking quantum device that can measure 3D acceleration using ultracold atoms, something once thought nearly impossible. By ...
June 8, 2025 — Physicists have managed to simulate a strange quantum phenomenon where light appears to arise from empty space a concept that until now has only existed in theory. Using cutting-edge simulations, ...
June 3, 2025 — A new study details processes that keep pollutants aloft despite a drop in ...
June 2, 2025 — Physicists have developed a lens with 'magic' properties. Ultra-thin, it can transform infrared light into visible light by halving the wavelength of incident ...
June 2, 2025 — Despite advances in machine vision, processing visual data requires substantial computing resources and energy, limiting deployment in edge devices. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a ...
June 2, 2025 — Researchers have engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of the ...
May 29, 2025 — Researchers present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin which has a much higher nuclear charge than any previous measurement. The experimental ...
May 29, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a new technique that uses lasers to create ceramics that can withstand ultra-high temperatures, with applications ranging from nuclear power technologies to spacecraft ...
May 29, 2025 — Earthquakes create ripple effects in Earth's upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite communications and navigation systems we rely on. Scientists have now used Japan's extensive network ...
May 28, 2025 — Engineers have developed a multifunctional, reconfigurable component for an optical computing system that could be a game changer in ...
May 27, 2025 — Laser-based metal processing enables the automated and precise production of complex components, whether for the automotive industry or for medicine. However, conventional methods require time- and ...
May 27, 2025 — New technology that uses light's color and spin to display multiple ...
May 23, 2025 — Blue phosphorescent OLEDs can now last as long as the green phosphorescent OLEDs already in devices, researchers have demonstrated, paving the way for further improving the energy efficiency of OLED ...
May 23, 2025 — A new experiment encodes quantum information in the motion of the atoms and creates a state known as hyper-entanglement, in which two or more traits are linked among a pair of ...
May 22, 2025 — A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, researchers have discovered -- upending assumptions that the material class is exclusively ...
May 22, 2025 — Researchers developed a faster, more stable way to simulate the swirling electric fields inside industrial plasmas -- the kind used to make microchips and coat materials. The improved method could ...
May 22, 2025 — Ammonia is a chemical essential to many agricultural and industrial processes, but it's mode of production comes with an incredibly high energy cost. Various attempts have, and are, being made ...
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- Ultra-Thin Lenses That Make Infrared Light Visible
- Self-Powered Artificial Synapse Mimics Human Color Vision
- New Laser Smaller Than a Penny Can Measure Objects at Ultrafast Rates
Thursday, May 29, 2025
- Listening to Electrons Talk
- Laser Technique Revolutionizes Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Manufacturing for Space, Defense Applications
- Thousands of Sensors Reveal 3D Structure of Earthquake-Triggered Sound Waves
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
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- Machine Learning Simplifies Industrial Laser Processes
- The Magic of Light: Dozens of Images Hidden in a Single Screen
Friday, May 23, 2025
- Efficiency Upgrade for OLED Screens: A Route to Blue PHOLED Longevity
- Controlling Quantum Motion and Hyper-Entanglement
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- A Rule-Breaking, Colorful Silicone That Could Conduct Electricity
- A Faster, More Reliable Method for Simulating the Plasmas Used to Make Computer Chips
- 'Green' Ammonia Powered by Sunlight
- Infrared Contact Lenses Allow People to See in the Dark, Even With Their Eyes Closed
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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- Empowering Robots With Human-Like Perception to Navigate Unwieldy Terrain
- Tiny Microlaser Sensors Offer Supercharged Biosensing
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- Scientists Innovate Mid-Infrared Photodetectors for Exoplanet Detection, Expanding Applications to Environmental and Medical Fields
- Satellite Measures CO2 and NO2 Simultaneously from Power Plant Emissions for the First Time
- Stability Solution Brings Unique Form of Carbon Closer to Practical Application
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Ping Pong Bot Returns Shots With High-Speed Precision
- The Squid Galaxy's Neutrino Game Just Leveled Up
- One Glass, Full Color: Sub-Millimeter Waveguide Shrinks AR Glasses
- 'Universe's Awkward Handshake' -- Simplifying Information Processing Using Photons a Quantum Breakthrough
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
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- Experimental Quantum Communications Network
- Would a Musical Triangle of Any Other Shape Sound as Sweet?
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- From Beam to Battery: Single-Step Laser Printing Supercharges High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
- New Electronic 'skin' Could Enable Lightweight Night-Vision Glasses
- Material? Robot? It's a Metabot
Friday, April 18, 2025
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- Tying Light from Lasers Into Stable 'optical Knots'
- Curved Neutron Beams Could Deliver Benefits Straight to Industry
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Golden Eyes: How Gold Nanoparticles May One Day Help to Restore People's Vision
- Researchers Introduce a Brand-New Method to Detect Gunshot Residue at the Crime Scene
- A Compact, Mid-Infrared Pulse Generator
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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- Photonic Computing Needs More Nonlinearity: Acoustics Can Help
- New Method for Detecting Nanoplastics in Body Fluids
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Light That Spirals Like a Nautilus Shell
- Illuminating the Twist: Light-Driven Inversion of Supramolecular Chirality
- Breaking a Century-Old Physics Barrier: Perfect Wave Trapping With Simple Cylinders
Thursday, April 10, 2025
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- A New Robotic Gripper Made of Measuring Tape Is Sizing Up Fruit and Veggie Picking
- Finding Cancer's 'fingerprints'
- Amplifier With Tenfold Bandwidth Opens Up for Super Lasers
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- Physicists Uncover Electronic Interactions Mediated Via Spin Waves
- Revealing Capillaries and Cells in Living Organs With Ultrasound
- Solar Cells Made of Moon Dust Could Power Future Space Exploration
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks
- A New Wave in Ultrafast Magnetic Control
- World's Smallest Pacemaker Is Activated by Light
- Scientists Merge Two 'impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations
- Metasurfaces: Bilayer Device Can Control Many Forms of Polarized Light
- The Experts That Can Outsmart Optical Illusions
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- Beyond Ambiguous Reflections: Bridging Optical 3D Metrology and Computer Vision
- Terahertz Imaging: Breakthrough in Non-Invasive Cochlear Visualization
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- Groundbreaking Study Unveils New Complexities in Synchronization Phenomena
- Device Enables Direct Communication Among Multiple Quantum Processors
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Researchers Capture First Laser-Driven, High-Resolution CT Scans of Dense Objects
- New AI Tool Generates High-Quality Images Faster Than State-of-the-Art Approaches
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Nanocellulose Treated With Red Onion Dye Provides Effective UV Protection for Solar Cells
- Good Vibrations: Scientists Discover a Groundbreaking Method for Exciting Phonon-Polaritons
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- Technique to Manipulate Water Waves to Precisely Control Floating Objects
- Elementary-Particle Detectors, 3D Printed
Monday, March 10, 2025
- X-Ray Snapshot: How Light Bends an Active Substance
- 'Nanodot' Control Could Fine-Tune Light for Sharper Displays, Quantum Computing
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- Sneaky Clocks: Uncovering Einstein's Relativity in an Interacting Atomic Playground
- Nanoscale Tweaks Help Alloy Withstand High-Speed Impacts
- Researchers Quantify the Way Rivers Bend, Opening Up the Possibility for Identifying Origins of Channels on Other Planets
- How Agave Plants Survive Extreme Droughts
- Neural Network Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars in a Second