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Computational optics co-designs lenses, illumination, sensors, and reconstruction algorithms, enabling compact imaging systems that encode and decode light for better resolution, depth, polarization, spectral, and biomedical measurements.
By Ankit Singh
7 Aug 2026
Beam-shaping technologies modify high-power laser intensity, phase, and polarization, improving precision, damage tolerance, welding quality, cutting stability, communication performance, and scalability in coherent beam combining across applications.
By Ankit Singh
30 Jul 2026
Metasurfaces use nanoscale meta-atoms to bend, focus, filter, and reshape light in ultrathin layers, enabling compact cameras, sensors, wireless panels, imaging systems, and tunable flat-optics devices.
By Ankit Singh
23 Jul 2026
E-beam inspection complements optical wafer inspection by detecting nanoscale physical and electrical defects at advanced semiconductor nodes, while optical tools remain essential for high-throughput in-line monitoring.
By Samudrapom Dam
16 Jul 2026
Polaritons form when light strongly couples to material excitations, giving photons an effective mass, slower motion, and increased interaction strength for applications in photonics, sensing, chemistry, lasers, and emerging quantum devices and circuits.
By Ankit Singh
9 Jul 2026
SERS enables label-free protein detection by amplifying Raman signals on engineered metal substrates, supporting biomarker discovery, single-molecule sensitivity, immunoassays, imaging, and machine-learning-assisted proteomics workflows for research and clinical diagnostics applications.
By Ankit Singh
2 Jul 2026
Partial coherence gives optical systems a tunable design variable beyond lasers, improving imaging, sensing, communication, and photonic computing by shaping correlation structures instead of maximizing coherence by default.
By Ankit Singh
25 Jun 2026
Fiber-optic spectroscopy uses light-guiding probes to monitor temperature, strain, pressure, and chemical signals remotely, enabling continuous real-time sensing in oil wells, volcanoes, nuclear reactors, aerospace structures, and other harsh environments.
By Ankit Singh
18 Jun 2026
Optical hydrodynamics shows how exciton-polaritons can form self-bound quantum droplets of light in semiconductor microcavities, enabling liquid-like photonic behavior for future quantum light sources.
By Samudrapom Dam
11 Jun 2026
OBIC uses focused laser scanning to map photocurrent changes in integrated circuits, helping localize junction defects, ESD damage, oxide shorts, and buried failures without destructive sample preparation.
By Ankit Singh
4 Jun 2026