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Reflectionless Metasurface can Offer an Accessible Platform for Terahertz Flat Optics

Japanese researchers successfully tested reflectionless, highly refractive index metasurface that may eventually be used in practical applications to send, receive, and manipulate light and radio waves in the terahertz waveband (THz).

25 May 2021

New Optofluidic Technology Enables Reliable Manipulation of Droplets

Microfluidic technologies have seen great advances over the past few decades in addressing applications such as biochemical analysis, pharmaceutical development, and point-of-care diagnostics.

24 May 2021

Ti:Sapphire Laser Crystals are Key for Super-Intense Ultrafast Laser Devices

A group of researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently came up with a new theory on the source of residual infrared absorption in Ti:sapphire laser crystals.

24 May 2021

New Light-Detecting Device can More Accurately Amplify Weak Signals Bouncing off of Faraway Objects

Realizing the potential of self-driving cars hinges on technology that can quickly sense and react to obstacles and other vehicles in real time.

21 May 2021

A Promising Engineering Tool for Microring Lasers

Problems for eigenmodes of a two-layered dielectric microcavity have become widespread thanks to the research of A.I. Nosich, E.I. Smotrova, S.V. Boriskina and others since the beginning of the 21st century.

20 May 2021

Light and Ultrasonic Waves Combination in Silicon Chips Enables Better Signal Processing

Light waves largely govern the sustained growth of cellular and wireless data traffic. Microwave photonics can be defined as the field of technology that is devoted to the processing and distribution of electrical data signals through optical ways.

20 May 2021

Optimised SWIR Lenses for Material Sorting & Inspection

Resolve Optics has received several major orders for instrument optimised versions of its Model 363-000 - a 16 mm diameter Short Wavelength Infrared (SWIR) lens for inspection and material sorting applications.

20 May 2021

"Optical Rectennas" Capture Excess Heat and Turn it Into Usable Electricity

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have tapped into a poltergeist-like property of electrons to design devices that can capture excess heat from their environment--and turn it into usable electricity.

19 May 2021

High-Performance Laser Mirrors Detect Trace Amounts of Substances in Gas Mixtures

For the first time, physicists from the University of Vienna have successfully demonstrated high-performance laser mirrors in the sensing-relevant mid-infrared wavelength range.

19 May 2021

Nanophotonics-Based Technology can Innovate LiDAR Sensors in Various Aspects

The nanophotonics-based LiDAR technology developed by a POSTECH research team was presented as an invited paper in Nature Nanotechnology, the leading academic journal in the field of nanoscience and nanoengineering.

18 May 2021

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