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    (Photo credit: Esco Optics)
    Ryan Hegarty (left) and Stephen Long (right) inspect a run of windows on a double-sided polisher.
    Precision optics manufacturing plays a crucial role in telecommunications, aerospace and defense, healthcare, and consumer electronics. But as the field experiences a notable ...
    Sept. 18, 2023
    (Photo credit: Maria Chekhova’s Lab)
    Maria Chekhova in her lab.
    The future of metasurfaces as sources of quantum states stems from their multifunctionality—researchers can simultaneously support several nonlinear effects, or linear and nonlinear...
    Sept. 15, 2023
    (Courtesy of Lei Yang, Hefei University of Technology)
    FIGURE 1. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) experimental system.
    Identification, classification, and management of recyclable waste materials has become faster and more precise, thanks to a spectroscopy technique that detects different materials...
    Sept. 14, 2023
    (Photo credit: TAU Systems)
    White light from a laser-generated air plasma is incident on the pointing screen of the TAU Systems electron spectrometer.
    The democratization of research tools has the potential to foster greater innovation, collaboration, and accelerated product development.
    Sept. 13, 2023
    (Courtesy of Zubin Jacob)
    FIGURE 1. Lead researcher Zubin Jacob, an Elmore professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.
    Alone, thermal imaging and IR imaging each tend to generate vague imagery—and it poses risks for robotics, AI, and autonomous technologies. But together, they may be a force to...
    Sept. 12, 2023
    (Courtesy of MIT)
    FIGURE 1. A sensor developed by researchers from MIT and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences was inspired by the membrane that surrounds all cells and could someday be used to screen patients for hard-to-diagnose cancers or other diseases.
    Many lives could be saved and pain alleviated if disease screening and detection were simpler and faster—and it’s exactly what an international team of researchers is working ...
    Sept. 11, 2023
    (Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
    FIGURE 1. DSOC’s flight laser transceiver.
    NASA is putting laser comms to the test in deep space—300 million kilometers (186 million miles) away.
    Sept. 8, 2023
    (Image credit: Fraunhofer IOSB/indigo)
    FIGURE 1. SPAD detector enables 3D measurements with quantum ghost imaging.
    Researchers in Germany create a new twist on quantum ghost imaging.
    Sept. 5, 2023
    (Courtesy of Michael Baker)
    FIGURE 1. Along 37.4 km of the fiber optic cable, the researchers observed abrupt changes up to about 10 km that occurred in less than 24 hours.
    Global temperatures are soaring, sea ice is retreating. Climate change is real, and it’s happening fast. Scientists are turning to fiber-optic cables and sensors to monitor sea...
    Sept. 4, 2023
    (Image credit: Rohit Chikkaraddy/University of Birmingham)
    MIR vibrationally assisted luminescence (MIRVAL).
    U.K. scientists tap quantum systems to convert invisible mid-infrared photons into visible photons via molecular emitters—a breakthrough that may provide new insights into how...
    Sept. 1, 2023
    (Photo credit: PlanOpSim)
    Lieven Penninck, founder and CEO of PlanOpSim.
    Jose Pozo, Optica’s CTO, talks to Lieven Penninck, founder and CEO of PlanOpSim, about his vision for metalens design and simulation.
    July 31, 2023