A computer algorithm can process optical coherence tomography (OCT) data and generate a color-coded map almost instantaneously.

If you want to take the pulse of biophotonics in Europe, the biennial LASER World of Photonics (June 22-25, 2015) event is the place to do it.

Beam steering for handheld and portable devices has fingertip size, battery power, milliradian precision, mobile-phone robustness, and fully integrated microelectronics.

Beyond supercontinuum generation and dispersion compensation in communications networks, microstructured optical fibers enable unprecedented temperature-insensitive pressure, ...

With their low cost and high uptime, quantum-well infrared detector focal-plane arrays compete well with mercury cadmium telluride for some uses in the long-wave infrared.

Rare-earth-doped glass is finding use in mainstream medical devices, astronomy and measurement, and materials processing applications.

This month I interview Professor Tom Koch, who is Dean of the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona (UA).

Half a century ago, holography was the hottest trend in imaging, and the future was going to be holovision. The CCD brought a revolution and today's cameras are digital, from ...

Newly fabricated mesoporous gold films can create plasmonic effects useful for optical sensing applications.

Natural photonic micro- and nanostructures on insect wings and carapaces modify light through many different optical effects.

Mid-IR optical fibers and other supporting optical components are oftentimes difficult to source.

A collaboration is developing and producing what it says is the next generation of nanophotonic data storage (N-PDS) technologies.

A silicon quantum-dot-based hybrid inorganic/organic LED that exhibits white-blue electroluminescence has been developed.

A simplified apparatus measures the optical performance characteristics and dimensions of an optical element using a single system.

While lasers were the initial focus of this publication, the first issue in 1965 also included a long piece on imaging in the form of laser-based holograms.