Alternatives to relatively high loss silica optical fibers like ZBLAN have historically been limited by the confines of gravity fed manufacturing processes. However, this could...

LED-based tunable light source (TLS) technology enables modern sensors to be tested with higher precision, accuracy, and speed.

Field tests are solving the challenges of counting photons and measuring their quantum states in quantum key distribution (QKD)-based optical transmission networks to insure communicati...

R&D at Berlin Adlershof has resulted in design improvements for high-power diode lasers that are boosting efficiency, peak power, brilliance, and range of emission spectra.

Dispersed nanoparticles provide quantitative and qualitative enhancements to high-refractive-index, antireflective, high-reflection, spectral, and transparent conductive optical...

Single- and multiline lasers with wavelengths across the visible spectrum and beyond allow matching with numerous applications.

After enjoying nine years of growth since the Great Recession, the laser industry sees widespread macroeconomic softening, wondering if “what goes up must come down”.

A combination of advanced algorithms and improved hardware is driving the popularity of deconvolution for optical confocal microscopy.

Using multphoton laser direct writing, optical waveguides with a loss of only 0.03 dB/cm in the 650 to 700 nm spectral range are written into silicon polymer.

Artificial intelligence (AI) helps transform ordinary optical microscope into superresolution microscopes.

A solid-state, compact on-chip device that incorporates waveguides and liquid-crystal elements can steer mid-infrared light beams without relying on mechanical components.

Twisted light with orbital angular momentum (OAM) shows promise in fiber-optic networks; now, it can even be coupled on and off a chip and transmitted through an integrated waveguide...

A small polymer lens turns a smartphone into a powerful detector of lead in drinking water at the parts-per-billion level.

With straightforward fabrication and the production of highly focused electron beams, the accelerator could, for example, fit in an endoscope.

A technique for transferring 2D optoelectronic circuits onto the curved surface of an optical fiber could lead to new types of remote sensors.

Researchers demonstrate high-dimensional one-way quantum operations using d-level cluster states in a scalable approach that uses integrated photonic chips and optical fiber-based...

A combination of artificial intelligence coupled with the modeling of laser pulses in optical fiber can be used to predict the emergence of rogue waves of light from surrounding...

By infusing paraffin into a honeycombed graphene substrate and heating it using near-infrared light, liquid droplets can be controlled on the surface, making microfluidic applications...

With a sold-out exhibit, largest square-footage exhibition space, highest number of technical presentations, and its biggest industry program ever, SPIE Photonics West’s 25th ...