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New Preparation Process for Growing Tm,Ho:Lu2O3 Crystal

For many decades, 2-μm lasers based on Tm3+-Ho3+ co-doped host media have garnered a great deal of attention in free-space optical communication, light detection and ranging (LIDAR), laser microsurgery, atmospheric sensors, and free-space optical communication.

23 Sep 2019

Nano-Tomographic Technique Detects Invisible Properties of Nano-Structured Fields

Structured laser light has already paved the way for a wide range of applications. For example, it enables accurate machining, controlling, and trapping of materials, or defined movements of cell compartments or tiny particles.

23 Sep 2019

Light and Sound Waves Combined in Silicon Chips for Novel Signal Processing

The digital era is enabled by integrated circuits in silicon. Now, with the advent of photonics—components used for producing, guiding, and detecting light—the abilities of electronic circuits have been expanded even more.

17 Sep 2019

Metasurface Holograms Help Create Fast, Compact Devices to Measure Polarization

Scientists have achieved a new breakthrough by creating holograms with the help of ultra-thin layers of 2D structures called metasurfaces. These holograms can measure light polarization.

13 Sep 2019

Creaform Adds ACADEMIA 50 3D Scanner to its Educational Solution Suite

Creaform, a worldwide leader in portable and automated 3D measurement solutions, today announced that is has added the ACADEMIA 50 3D scanner to its ACADEMIA educational solution suite.

From Creaform Inc. 13 Sep 2019

Optical Vacuum Cleaner can Trap Nanoparticles from the Environment

Researchers of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) together with Russian and international colleagues created the concept for building an “optical vacuum cleaner.”

11 Sep 2019

Creation and Control of Light Crystals

Optical microresonators turn laser light into ultrashort pulses moving around the resonator’s circumference. These pulses, known as “dissipative Kerr solitons,” can propagate in the microresonator keeping their shape.

10 Sep 2019

Novel Optical Ruler can Compute Down to the Nanoscale

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have formulated a novel way to compute distances at the nanoscale—one nanometer is one-billionth of a meter—with the use of light.

6 Sep 2019

Colorful Microreactors Utilize Sunlight

The sun is the most sustainable energy source available on our planet and could be used to power photochemical reactions. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists present a widely applicable, cost-effective photomicroreactor.

30 Aug 2019

Photonis On-Board New X-Ray Imager to Study the Earth’s Magnetic Field from the Moon

Photonis has provided Micro Pore Optics that will be used in an X-ray imager designed by Boston University professor and engineer Brian Walsh to study Earth’s magnetosphere.

From PHOTONIS Technologies S.A.S. 23 Aug 2019

Optics and Photonics News

New Preparation Process for Growing Tm,Ho:Lu2O3 Crystal

Nano-Tomographic Technique Detects Invisible Properties of Nano-Structured Fields

Light and Sound Waves Combined in Silicon Chips for Novel Signal Processing

Metasurface Holograms Help Create Fast, Compact Devices to Measure Polarization

Creaform Adds ACADEMIA 50 3D Scanner to its Educational Solution Suite

Optical Vacuum Cleaner can Trap Nanoparticles from the Environment

Creation and Control of Light Crystals

Novel Optical Ruler can Compute Down to the Nanoscale

Colorful Microreactors Utilize Sunlight

Photonis On-Board New X-Ray Imager to Study the Earth’s Magnetic Field from the Moon

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