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LFW’s editorial board shares their quick thoughts about the most intriguing things they saw happen within the optics/photonics/quantum realm in 2025, as well as emerging trends...
Dec. 26, 2025
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Dec. 22, 2025
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Dec. 17, 2025
Credit: University of Applied Sciences Biberach (https://p-inst.com/life-science)
Widefield microscope image of a DAPI-stained mouse head; sagittal plane: 4x, 0.2 NA.
Dec. 17, 2025
Credit: Capt. Ray Jourdain, Ice Pilots, Canada
FIGURE 1. Icing accumulating on deck due to prow spray.
Dec. 11, 2025
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Dec. 9, 2025
Credit: Exail
Exail’s Er-doped and Er:Yb-doped optical fibers enable the development of low-noise optical amplifiers and high-power optical amplifiers for flying payloads and for optical feeder links in OGSs.
Dec. 1, 2025
Credit: Kunyan Zhang/University of California, Berkeley
A two-layer Janus TMD converts light through second harmonic generation (SHG), in which the material emits light at twice the frequency of the incoming beam (left). The SHG beam usually forms a six-pointed flower shape, but certain wavelengths of light distort it. Upper right: Symmetrical flower pattern in gray and asymmetrical SHG signal pattern in red. Lower right: Optical image of a sample. Credit: Kunyan Zhang/University of California, Berkeley
Nov. 25, 2025
Credit: Na Chen, Hanchao Teng, and Hai Hu
Illustration of nanolight pseudo-birefringence. Credit: Na Chen, Hanchao Teng, and Hai Hu
Nov. 24, 2025

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