Specialty optical fibers are rapidly moving beyond niche applications.

This article is part three of a three-part series focused on ultrafast lasers.

Paderborn University researchers have tailored nanostructured nonlinear metasurfaces to generate third harmonics—tripling the frequency of incoming light—more efficiently.

The world’s smallest silicon light-emitting diode (LED) and holographic microscope may soon bring more high-tech scientific functions to smartphone cameras.

Exploiting quantum entanglement for optomechanical sensors provides counterintuitive scaling improvement—and shows off entanglement’s power as a fundamentally new resource.

The Directed Energy Research Center (DERC) at Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII), in the United Arab Emirates, is an emerging global center of excellence in optics...

Distributed fiber optics sense everything everywhere all at once. Paired with artificial intelligence and machine learning, it can act as an interface between the physical and...

Drawing inspiration from the uniqueness of scallop eyes, neuroscientists in Switzerland have developed microscope objectives that could make imaging samples simpler, cheaper, ...

LightPath’s MANTIS multispectral camera solves cooling in both the midwave and longwave ranges simultaneously, without the complicated, heavy, and expensive systems needed today...

Jose Pozo, Optica’s CTO, talks to Michael Lebby, CEO of Lightwave Logic, about his distinguished career and what gets him fired up today.

FTIR microscopy is giving art and culture researchers a deeper look into artwork created centuries ago by one of Italy’s most renowned artists. And it could someday help art historians...

Mid-infrared frequency comb spectroscopy shines the way to dynamic process control of plasma nitriding.

Researchers create the first transmissive optics technology within the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) realm to provide clean foci and images—enabling exploration of attosecond physics...

This article discusses ongoing investments in laser technology, despite ever-present obstacles.

Researchers at Stanford University’s Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab created a new chip-scale laser isolator with potential for a significant impact in numerous industries...

Goodbye and good riddance, bulky lasers! Researchers have combined a laser cavity, noise-suppression filter, and a parametric quantum source on a chip to generate entangled states...