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Photonics Hot List: June 21, 2024

June 21, 2024

In this episode: New filter tech boosts night vision, a new design aids UV meta-holograms, and thin-film membranes confine IR light.

Justine Murphy

An enhanced infrared (IR) filter developed by a research team in Australia that uses nonlinear upconversion and is based on a non-local lithium niobate metasurface could bring night vision technology beyond conventional applications.

Using nanopatterning and nanoimprint lithography fabrication techniques, researchers in South Korea have made a significant breakthrough for UV metasurfaces with the discovery of the optimal conditions needed to mass-produce UV holograms.

Researchers in North Carolina have demonstrated in physically experiments a long-held theoretical idea—the confinement of IR light. It’s an advancement that’s poised to revolutionize imaging and nanophotonic technologies.

About the Author

Justine Murphy | Multimedia Director

Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Laser Focus World and Vision Systems Design. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.