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NED-LMD Waveguide Near-Eye Display Tester Honored by 2021 Laser Focus World Innovator Awards

Gamma Scientific, a world-class solution provider of high-precision optical radiation testing, measurement, and calibration technologies and products announced today that its NED-LMD Waveguide Tester was recognized among the best by the 2021 Laser Focus World Innovators Awards.

From Gamma Scientific 6 Oct 2021

Scientists Demonstrate Trapping Light with Disorder to Acquire Random Laser

Similar to a pinball game worked by a good player, a group of obstacles randomly placed can be adequate to capture light without requiring an optical cavity.

6 Oct 2021

Researchers Find Specific UV Light Wavelength Safe for Humans but Harmful to COVID-19 Virus

A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder informs that a particular wavelength of ultraviolet (UV) light is not only very effective at destroying the virus which causes COVID-19 but can also be safely used in public spaces.

5 Oct 2021

Research Paves the Way for Developments in THz Opto-Electronics, Wireless Communication

Using organic DAST crystals pumped with mid-IR pulses, researchers have created an exceptionally strong terahertz field that can directly drive a large change in transmission of a visible probe pulse in quantum dots.

4 Oct 2021

Recent Advances in Quantum Optics Based on Metasurfaces

This paper summarizes recent works on quantum optics based on micro/nano structures. Since its birth, quantum optics has been full of controversies with the locality and reality of classical physics versus the non-locality and uncertainty of quantum physics.

1 Oct 2021

Research Demonstrates Advancements in Optical Control and Polaritonics

Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Southampton, U.K., used all-optical methods to create an artificial lattice whose nodes house polaritons - quasiparticles that are half-light and half-matter excitations in semiconductors.

1 Oct 2021

New Method to Assemble Multiple Micron-Scale Optical Devices on a Single Chip

Researchers have developed a highly accurate way to assemble multiple micron-scale optical devices extremely close together on a single chip.

30 Sep 2021

Error-Protected Qubits in Photonic Chip is Key to Delivering Quantum Computers

A team of researchers from Bristol's Quantum Engineering and Technology Labs has shown how to protect qubits from errors using photons in a silicon chip.

30 Sep 2021

New Technique for Rapid, Repeatable Multi-Photon 3D Printing of Complex Structures

Additive manufacturing – also called 3D printing – has revolutionized many fields and has spurred researchers to investigate manufacturing techniques at the micro- and nanoscale.

29 Sep 2021

Metrology Instrument Provides Unprecedented Accuracy for Characterizing X-Ray Mirrors

X-ray mirrors are widely used for synchrotron radiation facilities, X-ray free-electron lasers and astronomical X-ray telescopes. The short wavelength and grazing incidence impose strict limits on the permissible slope errors.

29 Sep 2021