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Researchers at CERN’s Antimatter Factory working on the Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy (AEgIS) have cooled positronium with laser light for the first time....

ARLINGTON, Va. — Leonardo DRS received a contract to produce its next-generation thermal weapon sights for the U.S. Army. The firm fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command is...

Many technologies — from communications, to radar and sensing, to positioning and navigation — rely on low-noise microwave signals for precise timing and synchronization. Advances in...

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) designed an optoelectronic logic gate (OELG) made from organic-inorganic...

Introducing UVWFS Broadband by Armadillo: A remarkably low-loss solution optimized for wavelengths ranging from 200 to 2000 nm. This innovative fiber harnesses the combined properties of UV and WF...

Low-profile athermal arrayed waveguide grating (AAWG) bricks and modules from POINTek Inc. features a ½-in. height housing for high-density fiber management. The low-profile AAWG bricks,...

The SDX 6330 10-Gbit/s combo passive optical network (PON) fiber access platform from Adtran Inc. enables service providers to rapidly and cost effectively connect homes and businesses with...

The HandySCAN BLACK™|Elite Limited achieves an accuracy of 0.012 mm and a volumetric accuracy of 0.012 mm +0.020 mm/m. It uses 11 blue laser crosses to provide increased scanning speed on...

Spectral selection is a powerful tool that enhances conventional imaging tremendously. Most imaging systems, including the human eye, are designed to image light over a broad range of the spectrum....

As bit rates increase to meet expanding demand, systems have become increasingly sensitive to polarization-related impairments. These include polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers,...

There are three fundamentally different dispersive phenomena in optical fiber, of which polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is the most complex. In digital multimode fiber systems, a light pulse...

Since first demonstrated in 2014, the technique of quantum cascade laser (QCL) dual-comb spectroscopy has developed into a beneficial tool for a variety of mid-infrared applications. By steadily...

Presenters: Professor Stephen Boppart The Future of Healthcare With Optical Biomedical Imaging A medical doctor and professor at the University of Illinois, Boppart's...

Understanding the mechanism of a chemical reaction is an important step away from trial-and-error-based reaction optimization. By studying the structures of intermediates — how long they exist...

High-quality cameras increasingly depend on extended systems of intricately optimized, aberration-correcting lenses. Unlike conventional lenses, metaoptics leverage subwavelength scatterers to...

A femtosecond laser is a type of laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light with durations on the order of femtoseconds, where one femtosecond is equal to 10^-15 seconds. These lasers are capable of...

A broadband filter is an electronic or electromagnetic device designed to pass a range of frequencies or signals within a specified bandwidth while attenuating or rejecting signals outside of that...

Supercontinuum refers to a broad spectrum of light that spans a wide range of wavelengths, typically from the visible to the near-infrared or even mid-infrared regions of the electromagnetic...

A frequency comb is a precise and regular series of equally spaced spectral lines, or frequencies, that are generated with great accuracy. The term "frequency comb" is often associated with the Nobel...

-Shrinking OCT -Photonic Logic Gate -Intravascular OCT This week on Light matters: bulk silicon emits visible light, 3-D printable optics are open sourced, a European project aims to shrink light...

-Laser Munich -Portable Quantum Tech -Metamaterial bandwidth This week on Light Matters: a moon-shaped metamaterial broadens bandwidths, Laura Marshall reports from Laser World of Photonics in...

-Nanovolcanoes -QD Microscopy -Nuclear Detection This week on Light Matters: light scattering and nanolithography combine for drug delivery, quantum dots bring together the best of optical and...

Peter O’Brien, director of the PIXAPP Photonics Packaging Pilot Line and head of the photonics packaging group at the Tyndall Institute, overviews the current state of integrated photonics...

IPG Photonics is the world's leading provider of high power fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers that are revolutionizing performance and utility in a remarkable array of materials processing,...

DK Photonics is a leading manufacturer of innovative and high quality optical passive components. We provide complete and integrated solutions from 400~2100nm. DK Photonics produces a large array of...

Frankfurt Laser Company (FLC) is a world-leading supplier of Fabry-Perot (FP), distributed feedback (DFB) and distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser diodes, SM individually addressable and...

Spectrogon manufactures and develops optical filters, thin-film coatings, and holographic diffraction gratings. The company continuously improves production techniques and craftsmanship in order to...