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New Optical System for Real-Time 3D Inspection of Surfaces with Micron-Scale Precision

Researchers have developed a lightweight optical system for 3D inspection of surfaces with micron-scale precision. The new measurement tool could greatly enhance quality control inspection for high-tech products including semiconductor chips, solar panels and consumer electronics such as flat panel televisions.

24 Aug 2021

UVA Research Accelerates the Transition from Bulk Optics to Photonics-Based Quantum Computing Platforms

The quantum computing market is projected to reach $65 billion by 2030, a hot topic for investors and scientists alike because of its potential to solve incomprehensibly complex problems.

23 Aug 2021

UCF Receives $1 Million Science and Engineering Research Grant for Space-Time Optics Project

One of the nation's largest philanthropic organizations – the W. M. Keck Foundation – has awarded the University of Central Florida a $1 million Science and Engineering Research grant.

19 Aug 2021

Chinese Researchers Contribute to a Deeper Understanding of Free Electron Laser Physics

Free electron lasers generate short-wavelength radiation with extreme brilliance on ultrafast timescales. Developed over the past three decades, FELs provide an important research tool for physics, biology, chemistry, and other areas.

18 Aug 2021

Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses to Probe the Dynamics of Photoelectron Emission

Physicists at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics have used ultrashort laser pulses to probe the dynamics of photoelectron emission in tungsten crystals.

12 Aug 2021

New Optical Element Could Lead to Paper Thin Cameras, Telescopes

Can you imagine one day using a telescope as thin as a sheet of paper, or a much smaller and lighter high-performance camera? Or no longer having that camera bump behind your smartphone?

12 Aug 2021

Researchers Study Non-Linear Effects in a System of Two Coupled Optical Microcavities

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw demonstrated exciton-polariton lasing and parametric scattering of exciton-polaritons in a system of coupled optical microcavities.

11 Aug 2021

New Approaches and Achievements on Multi-Material Multi-Photon Micro/Nano-Printing

Multi-photon approaches provide printing rates of up to about ten million voxels per second. And, multi-photon-based 3D approaches structure matter with a resolution approaching sub-micrometer and nanometer feature sizes.

11 Aug 2021

Metamaterials Research may Enable Technological Advances in Electromagnetics and Photonics

Cornell researchers are proposing a new way to modulate both the absorptive and the refractive qualities of metamaterials in real time, and their findings open intriguing new opportunities to control, in time and space, the propagation and scattering of waves for applications in various areas of wave physics and engineering.

11 Aug 2021

OIDA Launches Ones to Watch Report Series Profiling Innovative Early-Stage Photonics Companies

The OSA Industry Development Associates today announced the launch of the Ones to Watch report series profiling innovative early-stage photonics companies.

11 Aug 2021