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Extreme UV Sources Fill the Gap
The electromagnetic spectrum has several regions where emitters, detectors, or both are not readily available. Terahertz and the far-infrared are prime examples. Even within the visible spectrum, much has been said about the “green gap” — the wavelength region between 500 and 600 nm where efficient and high-brightness solid-state sources were, until recently, hard to come by...
Adaptive Optics Look Farther Than Ever Before
Decades after the Cold War ended, technology developed for the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”) missile defense program continues to be of use, emerging in fields ranging...
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Thinnest of Materials Loom Large
Only a few atomic layers thick, 2D materials such as graphene, the compound semiconductor germanium selenium, the transition metal dichalcogenide molybdenum ditelluride, and others could provide new...
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Quantum Dots: Taking the Display World by Storm
Quantum dots. QDs. QLED. The presence of quantum dots (QDs) in consumer displays has been on the rise since Sony introduced QD Vision’s edge optic in its 2013 Triluminos TV series. Samsung...
Optical Mapping Delivers Realistic, 3D Images for AR
The global market for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) continues to expand, with a variety of these technologies sprouting in the past five years, cultivated by...
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Quantum Dots Give LCD Makers the Edge
They’re tiny inorganic semiconductor particles 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. Yet, because of the unique combination of efficiency and narrow emission profiles, quantum dots are having an outsize impact on the consumer display market, posing a formidable rival to OLED technology. Unlike other down-converting materials, such as phosphors, quantum dots have a unique...
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Plasmon Findings Could Pave-Way for Carbon-Based NIR Optoelectronic Devices
Researchers’ observation of gate-controlled quantum plasmons in aligned carbon nanotubes could pave the way for the development of carbon-based NIR optoelectronic devices and enable researchers...
Lens-on-MEMS Technology Could Lead to More Compact Optical Devices
In a collaboration between Argonne National Laboratory and Harvard University, researchers built a metasurface-based lens on top of a MEMS platform, creating a “lens-on-MEMS” device that...
Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells Become Efficient and Bright
Researchers from Umeå University, Linköping University, and Swedish company LunaLEC AB have developed light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) that emit strong light at high efficiency....
Chip-Scale Dual-Comb Spectroscopy Could Be Used in the Field
A research team has put two frequency comb generators on a single millimeter-sized chip, miniaturizing the dual comb and thus making it portable enough to perform sensing and spectroscopy in field...
3D-Printed Hyperspectral Imagers Designed for UAVs
Researchers used 3D printing and low-cost parts to create an inexpensive hyperspectral imager that is light enough to use onboard drones. The visible-wavelength hyperspectral imager (HSI) weighs less...
Attosecond Pulses From Extreme UV Light Source Break Into Atomic Interior
To observe the ultrafast electron motion in the inner shells of atoms with short light pulses, the pulses must not only be ultrashort, but very bright, and the photons that are delivered must have...
A New Use for Deep Learning — Hologram Reconstruction
Researchers have used a deep learning-based, computational approach to reconstruct a hologram and form a microscopic image of an object. This deep learning-based technique rapidly eliminates...
Tunable Metalens Can Change Its Focus in Real Time, Like a Human Eye
Researchers have demonstrated electrically tunable large-area metalenses controlled by artificial muscle technology. The adaptive metalens simultaneously controls for three of the major contributors...
Researchers Create Light-Emitting Nanoantennas Using Perovskite
A research team has used hybrid perovskite to create light-emitting nanoantennas with enhanced photoluminescence. The nanoantenna and light source are combined in a single nanoparticle. The new...
Team Demonstrates Three-Photon Bound States, Advancing Quantum Computing
Scientists have observed traveling three-photon bound states in a quantum nonlinear medium, a phenomenon that could help further the use of photons in quantum computing. Researchers from the...
Enhanced Magnetic Dipole Source, Glass Fiber Tailor Radiation in THz Region
Researchers have demonstrated an enhanced magnetic dipole source in the terahertz frequency range, a necessary step to harness the magnetic nature of light for terahertz devices. Collaborating...
Magneto-Optical Q-Switched Laser Generates Unpolarized Light
By using a technique — called q-switching — that utilizes short but high-powered pulse outputs, a laser one-tenth of the size of an American penny produced a beam that is 10 times more powerful than...
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VTT, Hitachi to Collaborate on Silicon, Optics
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. to collaborate on the development and commercialization of silicon photonics and...
SPIE Names Rochford New CEO
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, announced today that Kent Rochford will be the organization’s new CEO, taking over for Eugene Arthurs, who is set to retire June 2....
CST Global to Lead HELCATS Initatiative to Enable Miniaturized Atomic Clocks
CST Global will lead the high-power, phosphorous-based, distributed feedback lasers for cold atom systems (HELCATS) project to enable miniaturized atomic clock systems using strontium ions. Atomic...
EPIC, Russian Laser Association Sign Collaborative Agreement
The European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) and the Russian Laser Association have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance mutually advantageous activities in the field of photonics....
Innsbruck’s Zoller Awarded Ramsey Prize
The 2018 Norman F. Ramsey Prize, sponsored by laser developer Toptica Photonics AG, has been awarded to Peter Zoller at the Universität Innsbruck in Austria for his pioneering theoretical work...
Lehigh Photonics and Nanoelectronics Building HPS-CVD Reactor
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Lehigh University's Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics (CPN) is creating a new high-pressure spatial chemical vapor deposition (HPS-CVD)...
Cymer Ships ArF Light Source for Lithography
Light source developer Cymer LLC has announced the first shipment of the newly qualified XLR 800ix light source for argon fluoride (ArF) immersion lithography systems. Several leading semiconductor...
Kippenberg, Wolf Win Zeiss Research Award for Contributions to Photonics
Tobias Kippenberg, professor at the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Jean-Pierre Wolf, professor at...
Dark Sky Association Hosts Events to Call Attention to Light Pollution
The International Dark-Sky Association’s (IDA’s) 30th Annual General Meeting will be held Nov. 9 to 10, followed by the Artificial Light at Night’s (ALAN’s) 5th International...
CyArk, FarBridge, Oculus Partner to Re-Create Monmuments Through Virtual Reality
CyArk, a non-profit digital recorder and archiver of cultural heritage and virtual reality software developer FarBridge Inc., have partnered with virtual reality device developer Oculus VR LLC to...
G&H Obtains Aerospace Manufacturing Standard
Gooch and Housego PLC’s Ilminster facility has undergone a successful transition assessment to the AS9100:2016 standard performed by British Standards Institution and equivalent to AS9100 Rev...
Spectrolight Chooses Griot Group, Hass Technical Sales as Distributors
Optical and optomechanical component producer Spectrolight Inc. has chosen Griot Group as its exclusive sales representative for the western U.S. and Hass Technical Sales as their exclusive...
Meadowlark’s Baur Awarded G.G. Stokes Award
Tom Baur, chairman and founder of polarization solution manufacturer Meadowlark Optics has been awarded the 2018 G.G. Stokes Award from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). Baur...
NSF Awards Worcester Polytechnic $425K for Autonomous Vehicle Research
With a three-year, $425,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), two researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are combining their work to find the key to developing self-driving...
BAE to Supply UAE Armed Forces Aircraft with Head-Up Displays
Head-up display (HUD) developer BAE Systems PLC has been selected by Lockheed Martin to modernize HUDs on F-16 aircraft for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces, replacing the fleet’s...
Researchers Receive $1M NSF Grant for STEM Outreach Geared Toward Girls
Cathlyn Stylinski, a researcher at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science's (UMCES) Appalachian Laboratory, has received a $1 million, three-year National Science...
NTU, Volvo Buses Testing Self-Driving Electric Buses in Singapore
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Volvo Buses will begin testing autonomous electric passenger buses in Singapore in 2019. For Volvo, this will be its first autonomous...
Edmund to Distribute Etaluma Microscopes
Optical component supplier Edmund Optics Inc. and microscopy developer Etaluma have entered into a sales channel partnership to distribute Etaluma next-generation inverted LS microscopes to...
Partnership Forged to Develop Hybrid Coating
Bespoke optical thin-film coating developer Artemis Optical Ltd. has signed a three-year business development and technology partnership with Metamaterial Technologies Inc., a smart materials and...
Osram Opto Semiconductors' IR Lasers Deployed for Assisted Driving
High-power IR pulse lasers from Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH are helping speed the adoption of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). A long-range IR 4D camera concept...
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Massive Hologram Conveys Jet Engine in Golden Hues
Today, most of us need not look very far to see a hologram. They’re a common anticounterfeit feature on driver’s licenses and credit cards. But they weren’t always so commonplace — or small, for that matter. Case in point: Consider the massive transmission hologram that was commissioned for MTU Aero Engines AG in 1983. The hologram, purported to be the world’s...
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