Optics News
June 17, 2025
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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 chilling rubidium atoms to near absolute zero and ...
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 self-powered artificial synapse that distinguishes ...
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 most delicate experiments in existence to observe ...
May 30, 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 30, 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 of Global ...
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 accuracy reached a level of 0.5 parts per ...
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 resource-consuming preparations. Researchers are ...
May 27, 2025 — New technology that uses light's color and spin to display multiple ...
May 26, 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 ...
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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 ...
May 26, 2025 — A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, researchers have discovered -- upending assumptions that the material class is exclusively ...
May 26, 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 to ...
May 23, 2025 — Researchers developed a faster, more stable way to simulate the swirling electric fields inside industrial plasmas -- the kind used to make ...
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 22, 2025 — By carefully placing nanostructures on a flat surface, researchers have significantly improved the performance of so-called optical metasurfaces in conductive plastics. This is a major step for ...
May 22, 2025 — Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light ...
May 21, 2025 — Researchers have developed a 3D micro-printed sensor for highly sensitive on-chip biosensing, opening new opportunities for developing high-performance, cost-effective lab-on-a-chip devices for early ...
May 21, 2025 — A new camera setup can record three-dimensional movies with a single pixel. Moreover, the technique can obtain images outside the visible spectrum and even through tissues. The development thus opens ...
May 19, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel framework named WildFusion that fuses vision, vibration and touch to enable robots to 'sense' and navigate complex outdoor environments much like humans ...
Earlier Headlines
May 16, 2025 — New research details how infrared thermography, high-definition imaging and neural network analysis can combine to make concrete bridge inspections more efficient. Researchers are hopeful that their ...
May 15, 2025 — A new study explores how EOS transmits ultrashort laser pulses through crystals that change in response to an applied electric field. This technique allows researchers to accurately capture the shape ...
May 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed a simple method to explore a complex area of quantum science. The discovery makes research in this field cheaper and more accessible, which could significantly impact the ...
May 13, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new workflow for designing enzymes from scratch, paving the way toward more efficient, powerful and environmentally benign chemistry. The new method allows designers to ...
May 12, 2025 — Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational ...
May 9, 2025 — Researchers have developed an innovative photodetector capable of detecting a broad range of mid-infrared ...
May 9, 2025 — A research team used the German environmental satellite EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) to simultaneously detect the two key air pollutants carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen ...
May 9, 2025 — Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it an intriguing possibility for use in next-generation electronics, but its extreme instability made ...
May 8, 2025 — Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the ...
May 8, 2025 — In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A ...
May 8, 2025 — Augmented-reality (AR) technology is rapidly finding its way into everyday life, from education and healthcare to gaming and entertainment. However, the core AR device remains bulky and heavy, making ...
May 8, 2025 — Researchers have developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more practical and reliable. The advancement could pave the way for more secure data ...
May 7, 2025 — Physicists captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the 'free-range' particles that until now were predicted but ...
May 6, 2025 — Researchers recently connected their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network using two optical ...
May 6, 2025 — Researchers captured sound fields around musical triangles. They wanted to understand the physical properties of the triangle instrument, test assumptions about the contribution of the triangle ...
May 5, 2025 — In 1959, physicists James Terrell and Roger Penrose (Nobel laureate in 2020) independently concluded that fast-moving objects should appear rotated. However, this effect has never been demonstrated. ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with less energy. That's according to a new study that shows a hybrid zinc ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — A research team has developed an innovative single-step laser printing technique to accelerate the manufacturing of lithium-sulfur batteries. Integrating the commonly time-consuming active materials ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Engineers developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin 'skins' of electronic material that could be used in applications such as night-vision eyewear and autonomous driving in foggy ...
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Friday, May 9, 2025
- 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
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- Experimental Quantum Communications Network
- Would a Musical Triangle of Any Other Shape Sound as Sweet?
Monday, May 5, 2025
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- 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
Thursday, April 17, 2025
- 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
Monday, April 14, 2025
- 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
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- 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
Monday, April 7, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- 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
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Beyond Ambiguous Reflections: Bridging Optical 3D Metrology and Computer Vision
- Terahertz Imaging: Breakthrough in Non-Invasive Cochlear Visualization
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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Friday, March 21, 2025
- 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
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- 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
Friday, March 7, 2025
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- 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
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Cold Atoms on a Chip
- Researchers Unveil Neuromorphic Exposure Control System to Improve Machine Vision in Extreme Lighting Environments
Monday, March 3, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Quantum Interference in Molecule-Surface Collisions
- Researchers Demonstrate Laser Writing With Unprecedented Speed and Resolution
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Are Our Refrigerants Environmentally Safe? The Lingering Questions About the Chemicals Keeping Us Cool
- Material's 'incipient' Property Could Jumpstart Fast, Low-Power Electronics
- New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine
- Time Interfaces: The Gateway to Four-Dimensional Quantum Optics
- Multiplexing Entanglement in a Quantum Network
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Lunar Trailblazer Blasts Off to Map Water on the Moon
- From Defect to High-Tech Material
- A New Model Accurately Predicts the Movement of Elite Athletes to Catch the Ball in Parabolic Flight
Friday, February 21, 2025
- New Microscope Can Image, at Once, the Full 3D Orientation and Position of Molecules in Cells
- Microcomb Chips Help Pave the Way for Thousand Times More Accurate GPS Systems
- Highly Uniform Nanocrystals Synthesized by Liquid Crystalline Antisolvent
- Precision Therapy With Microbubbles
- Self-Imaging of Structured Light in New Dimensions
- Illuminating the Proton's Inner Workings
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Chip-Based System for Terahertz Waves Could Enable More Efficient, Sensitive Electronics
- Giant X-Ray Facility Shows That Magnets Can Reduce Flaws in 3D Printed Components
- Revolutionizing Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping: A Leap Forward in Augmented Reality