Optics

Credit: ESA
FIGURE 1. LISA will use three spacecraft separated by ~2.5 million kilometers to exchange laser beams and detect low-frequency gravitational waves.
NASA selected Exail’s flight-proven lithium-niobate phase modulators for its Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) space mission, which highlights how industrialized electro...
July 31, 2026
Credit: John Dexheimer
Investors have been rewarded and appear optimistic about continued growth.
July 30, 2026
Credit: Lidrotec
FIGURE 1. Schematic of the LidroCUT process.
July 29, 2026
Credit: MPL
This shot shows the group’s highly broadband and bright optical parametric amplifier in action.
July 27, 2026
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
July 21, 2026
Credit: Yiming Gong
Schematic comparison of carrier injection through a) 1 + 2 and b) 2 + 3 quantum interference within a semiconductor. The higher-order 2 + 3 process concentrates carriers into a narrower range of momentum-space directions and produces a more directional photocurrent.
July 20, 2026
Credit: Surrey NanoSystems
Two identical bronze casts—one is coated with Vantablack 310.
July 20, 2026
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Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
July 14, 2026
Credit: Ommatidia LiDAR
Ommatidia LiDAR’s Q2 laser radar deployed for noncontact field measurement.
July 14, 2026

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