Researchers have used liquid crystals to create magic windows that produce a hidden image when light shines on them. Credit: Felix Hufnagel, University of Ottawa…
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MIT scientists develop a low-cost, high-precision fabrication method for thin mirrors and silicon wafers. A novel photolithography technique could be a manufacturing game-changer for optical…
Scientists’ increasing mastery of quantum mechanics is heralding a new age of innovation. Technologies that harness the power of nature’s most minute scale show enormous…
A strong few-cycle laser pulse leads to strong-field ionization of gas atoms and molecules. Credit: © RMT Bergues LMU-physicists report in Nature Communications what happens…
Researchers have developed a new method to display highly realistic holographic images using ‘holobricks’ that can be stacked together to generate large-scale holograms. Credit: University…
Figure 1: High-harmonic generation creates short-wavelength light from a beam of powerful laser light with a longer wavelength. Credit: © 2022 RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and…
A new glasses-free 3D light field display system with a significantly extended viewing distance represents an important step toward compact, realistic-looking 3D displays that could…
Scattered waves from a nanoscale object encode the solution of a complex mathematical problem when interrogated by tailored input signals. Credit: Heedong Goh The work…
Humans experience the world in three dimensions, but a collaboration in Japan has developed a way to create synthetic dimensions to better understand the fundamental…
A 2 mm by 2 mm integrated photonic chip developed by Jaime Cardenas, assistant professor of optics, and PhD student Meiting Song (lead author) will…
New approach expands the application of powerful, ultrafast laser pulses. Quick bursts of laser light, lasting less than a trillionth of a second, are used…
Researchers have combined computational ghost imaging and x-ray fluorescence measurement in a high-resolution and efficient way to produce chemical element maps. The new method could…
Artistic view of the nanoparticle-in-groove plasmonic cavities. Molecules cover the gold film and are sandwiched between the groove and the 150-nm large nanoparticle. The infrared…
The team of academician GUO Guangcan of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made important progress…
H z component diagram when the point source is placed at r = R1 (a) in vacuum and (b) a-MoO3 invisibility concentrator and r =…
A plasmonic laser is turned on (top) and off (bottom) by switching the magnetization of a nanodot array. The zoomed insets show the magnetic field…
The silicon carbide microrings developed by the Vučković Lab, as seen through a scanning electron microscope at the Stanford Nano Shared Facilities. Credit: Vučković Lab…
The innovation could be a game-changer for communication technologies, such as phones and internet connections. A team from UCF has developed the world’s first optical…
Researchers have developed a metalens that acts as both a color splitter and a lens. It can be directly integrated on sensor pixels to create…