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    Credit: Singular Photonics
    Singular Photonics’ Andarta sensor.
    Sept. 10, 2025
    Credit: LongPath Technologies
    A Red Pitaya board in LongPath Technologies' field-deployed cabinet.
    Sept. 8, 2025
    Credit: Leah Murphy
    Cross-section of a HCF fabricated by Leah Murphy at the University of Bath, U.K. while developing a model to explain how losses occur.
    Sept. 2, 2025
    Credit: Thomas Gustav Nielsen & Mike Yarrow, NKT Photonics
    FIGURE 1. ULTIMA project’s goals.
    Aug. 28, 2025
    Credit: Santec AOC Corp.
    FIGURE 1. Liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) structure.
    Aug. 26, 2025

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    Credit: Dr. Duc Thinh Khong, SMART DiSTAP
    Infiltration of the nanosensor solution into a plant leaf.
    Making it easier to monitor plants and their growth, a first-of-its-kind nanosensor could help safeguard healthy crops.
    Aug. 21, 2025
    Credit: Altechna
    Variety of optics.
    Advances in optical coatings enable optics to withstand extremes—even those in space and on the battlefield.
    Aug. 20, 2025
    Credit: Mathilde Hary, Tampere University
    Schematic of the team’s optical extreme learning machine that uses nonlinear fiber optics propagation.
    A new information processing approach proves light does not just carry information, but can also compute it.
    Aug. 18, 2025
    Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Reflections in nature can lead to reflections in the mind and lab.
    Integrating novel magneto-plasmonic cryosorets onto a photonic crystal interface enables harnessing both electric and magnetic components of light—and it shows promise for highly...
    Aug. 14, 2025
    Credit: EPFL
    Scanning electron microscope image of the team’s chiral metasurface. Credit: EPFL
    Optical metasurfaces can control light by leveraging chirality—difference of a shape from its mirror image or its ‘handedness’—and it can be tuned via polarized light as a simple...
    Aug. 13, 2025
    Credit: TRUMPF
    FIGURE 1. Hairpin welding for electric motors.
    Laser welding innovations in sources and components are improving efficiency.
    July 28, 2025
    Credit: Photon Automation
    FIGURE 1. Laser welding cylindrical Li-ion module setup.
    Laser welding techniques with intermetallic bond control and advanced monitoring systems improve the strength, safety, and reliability of cylindrical Li-ion battery module interconnects...
    July 14, 2025
    Credit: Jorge Vidal/Rice University
    Dasom Kim in the lab with the team’s setup at Rice. Credit: Jorge Vidal/Rice University
    A superradiant phase transition (SRPT) occurs when two groups of quantum particles start to fluctuate in a coordinated manner—without an external trigger—and end up forming a ...
    June 11, 2025