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Detectors & Imaging
Credit: imec
Illustration of the wavefront shaping principle. When no wavefront shaping is applied, the illumination beam starts to diffusely spread. By optimizing the incoming wavefront, wavefront shaping compensates for scattering and brings the light back into focus.
Bio&Life Sciences
Shaping light to see deeper inside biological tissue
Integrated wavefront shaping extends the reach of optical imaging to give scientists a deeper and more precise look into biological tissue.
Oct. 29, 2026
Credit: Assemblify
Module for testing automotive developments.
Meet Oliver Grass, CEO of Assemblify
Oct. 29, 2026
Conventional CMOS automotive camera with in-camera HDR shows significant motion blur on a road sign.
Single-photon avalanche diode arrays: An avalanche of photon data for sharper imaging
Oct. 27, 2026
Credit: Guoan Zheng/University of Connecticut
FIGURE 1. The lensless gigapixel video camera. Left: A laser diode in the base illuminates the sample by way of a fold mirror, and the coded sensor (inset) records the diffracted light without any lens. Right: Six moments from a gigapixel video of a melting snowflake. Color is optical phase wrapped over 2π, so each fringe is a contour of equal optical thickness; the shifting background tracks the meltwater film.
A lensless chip films gigapixel video
Oct. 19, 2026
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Oct. 13, 2026
Credit: Ocean Optics
FIGURE 1. Hyperspectral imaging system operating in a field.
Optical imaging and spectroscopy enhance precision agriculture
Oct. 13, 2026
FIGURE 1. An echelle spectrograph disperses input light into multiple overlapping orders using a steep-blazed grating. A grism separates these orders perpendicularly and produces a 2D array of parallel spectra that are focused onto a CCD detector.
Optics
Advanced echelle gratings enable high-precision exoplanet detection
Oct. 9, 2026
Credit: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
2026 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Francis Halzen.
2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Oct. 6, 2026
Credit: Arnaud Pele/LIGO Laboratory
UC Riverside and LIGO Laboratory researchers move a 40-kg LIGO mirror into position to test a prototype FROSTI wavefront actuator in vacuum.
Wide-aperture wavefront sensing from thermal imaging
Sept. 29, 2026
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